The big US stocks dominating markets and investors’ portfolios just finished another earnings season. They reported spectacular collective results including record sales, profits, and operating cash ...

The S&P 500 index of large cap U.S. stocks has rallied +49% since the October 2022 lows, and +28% since the most recent October 2023 lows. Bulls argue that the equity rally has much more time to run.

South Africa’s welfare system is navigating turbulent political and economic waters following the May 2024 general election. For the first time since the end of apartheid, the African National ...

In The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Art of Disruption (2022), Sebastian Mallaby delves into the transformative impact of venture capital (VC) on industries worldwide. The book examines how some ...

The U.S. government in early May sanctioned 300 Chinese entities for supplying machine tools and parts to Russia for its war against Ukraine, while in mid-May Russian president Vladimir Putin made a ...

India imported more silver through the first four months of 2024 than it did in the entirety of last year. Indian silver imports totaled 4,172 tons of silver from January through April. That compares ...

The NY Fed has recently published a study on bank failures in the U.S., examining the reasons why banks fail. For this study, the regulator constructed a large database with balance sheet information ...

The financial landscape experienced a seismic shift last week, reminiscent of hitting rumble strips on the interstate—jerking investors awake to the underlying economic dangers. Monday’s drastic stock ...

That’s an interesting situation that we have today. Gold us up, but silver and miners are down. What gives? In short, it’s almost certainly all about the temporary impact from the stock market. The ...

The S&P trend tends to be inversely correlated to the USD trend as this inverted chart of the USD illustrates, where what the stock market seeks is either a dollar trending higher or a stable dollar ...

The May Consumer Price Index (CPI) report was cause for optimism. But price inflation is like that stubborn weed in the driveway. Just when you think you’ve killed it for good, it pokes back through a ...