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Consumer Sentiment Impact Amid Recession Fears
Date: October 13, 2022
By John Cunnison, Chartered Financial Analyst®, Chief Investment Officer, Baker Boyer Often fascinating and counter-intuitive, historical data of consumer sentiment can powerfully foreshadow market behavior and its impact on investment market performance. As fear of recession rises, a review of consumer behavior during recessions of the past gives us a pretty good idea of how...
Western investors need to remove the bias they didn’t know they had
Date: October 12, 2022
By Bryan Turner, Partner, Spear Capital The world is beset by extreme inequality. In fact, a study released in December 2021 found that global inequality is at levels not seen since the peak of Western imperialism. And, while we tend to focus on things like income inequality and unequal access to resources, there are also...
Euro zone bond yields creep higher after ECB minutes
Date: October 6, 2022
By Samuel Indyk and Stefano Rebaudo LONDON (Reuters) -Euro zone government bond yields edged up towards September’s multi-year highs on Thursday, with analysts reckoning that the recent bond rally was too early as inflation might still surprise on the upside. Borrowing costs were roughly unchanged after the release of the European Central Bank minutes. Policymakers...
European shares rally sharply ahead of producer price data
Date: October 4, 2022
By Devik Jain (Reuters) -European shares rose sharply on Tuesday in a broad-based rally, led by chipmakers, travel and leisure companies, and some strong corporate updates, with investors eyeing producer price data due later in the day. The region-wide STOXX 600 index was up 2% by 0827 GMT, hitting its highest level since Sept. 23....
Analysis-UK bond market crash takes shine off Big Bang plans for London
Date: October 4, 2022
By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s new Prime Minister Liz Truss promised to “unshackle” the City of London to fuel growth, but crashing the bond market over tax cuts will take the shine off her “Big Bang” plan for financial services. Markets took fright last month when UK finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng unveiled plans...
Understanding Robovoting & Why It Affects ESG Initiatives For Financial Companies
Date: September 30, 2022
A bedrock principle of American democracy has always been one man, one vote. Shareholder elections are different because, typically, the voting power a shareholder has is directly proportional to their ownership stake. While this is not one man one vote, it is at least one share one vote. Unfortunately, most shareholder elections are as fake...