There have been two housing cycles in the Anglo-Saxon world that never really corrected in the 2008 global financial crisis but continued to levitate. Both ... Read More»
The view this year is that financial markets this year will be more sensitive to developments concerning the Fed balance sheet, or quantitative tightening, ... Read More»
The benefit of the doubt is still given to the continuation of the risk on trade that commenced on Boxing Day, with the S&P500 and the MSCI AC World Index u... Read More»
The cock-up that former British Prime Minister David Cameron created has become ever clearer. This is a reference, of course, to the seemingly interminable Brex... Read More»
With all the focus on the US-China trade negotiations, it is easy to forget about Taiwan and the long-running cross-Strait dispute. But there was an interes... Read More»
Fund managers entered 2019 shaken and stirred. So more of a relief rally would not surprise, most particularly given the absence of the traditional year-end... Read More»
The past year was a disastrous year for investors in the sense that U.S. dollar cash outperformed all stock markets and most bond markets and, so far at lea... Read More»
Wall Street remains in corrective mode despite hopes of the normal rally into year-end, with the S&P500 now down 11.6% from the September peak (see foll... Read More»
Chris is internationally renowned for his weekly institutional research newsletter GREED & fear. He has correctly identified all major global financial bubbles over the last 3 decades (US sub-prime crisis, Nasdaq technology bubble, Asian financial crisis, and the Japanese financial meltdown). He’s also the author of three highly acclaimed books: Boom and Bust, The Bubble Economy, and The End of Japan Inc. Since May 2019, Chris has been Global Head of Equity Strategy at Jefferies.
