Chris Wood
Pushing on a String: China’s Consumer Demand Problem
Pushing on a string is a term this writer became very familiar with employing when living in Tokyo in the…
Are Stocks Ready for the August Inflation Reading?
The obvious source of relief for Wall Street-correlated world stock markets, save for a Fed U-turn, would be a sign…
Is an End in Sight for China’s COVID Zero Policy?
The current investment quarter has been marked by financial markets acting like talk of a “return to the 1970s” is…
The Yen is on the Ropes, is Yield Curve Control Next?
This writer has continued to take a positive view on energy stocks. That said, energy and other cyclical commodity-related sectors…
Are Leveraged Loans This Cycles Ticking Time Bomb?
The longer monetary tightening proceeds the more likely it is to trigger real problems in the area where credit growth…
Is a Ukraine Compromise Imminent?
If intensifying US monetary tightening should be theoretically bullish for Treasury bonds because it hits demand, the macro situation has…
What Data Could Cause a Fed Pivot on Rates?
The outlook remains the inverse of Goldilocks. The minimum decline investors should expect, if the Federal Reserve sticks to its…
Will Midterms Spell the End of Fed Tightening?
The 10-year Treasury bond has of late broken above the 40-year trend line in place since former Federal Reserve chairman,…
Why India is the Best Growth Story in Asia
In India recently for the first time in nearly three years, this writer saw nothing to question the pre-existing view…