Global Strategy
Is the Chinese Stock Market Off to the Races?
It has been a long time coming, but China has finally signaled the importance of the elderly being vaccinated. National…
China is Entering a New Era
China will continue to be run primarily around politics not economics. This is the chief conclusion following the end of…
Can Anything Kill The Energy Bull Market?
There is no doubt that energy is a core part of the fractious political debate in America in stark contrast…
The Shadow Semiconductor Wars Explained
If the Ukraine situation is one kind of warfare, even though Russian President Vladimir Putin still refers to it as…
The S&P 500 Earnings Recession is Already Here, Will it Get Worse?
The base effect worked for investors with last week’s October US CPI data. Remember, the CPI month-on-month change slowed from…
Is a Dramatic Market Switch from Energy to Metals Possible?
This has so far been an annus horribilis for gold mining stocks with gold stocks underperforming a declining gold price,…
The Ugly Truth about Inflation
The US CPI report remains by far the most important monthly data point globally, as financial markets continue to be…
Listen to This Fed Governor for Signs of a Fed Pivot
The “situation” remains the inverse of Goldilocks for Wall Street-correlated world stock markets with the one consolation for investors that…
The Best Global Equity Story is India
With world markets so jittery, it is worth focusing again on what is probably the best structural equity story globally.…
Can Anything Stop China’s Property Meltdown?
Pushing on a string as regards the mainland Chinese economy was the theme discussed here recently (see Pushing on a…