The decay in global leadership

This report could be about the recent bear market rally, Kanye West’s implosion or UK Prime Minister’s exit after just 44 days in office. But, we would like to divert our readers’ attention to something more fundamentally unsettling.  Ex-President Trump will likely be...

Hard landing is here as the economy faces new risks

CPI reading of 8.2% for September, barely down from 8.3% in August showed how sticky inflation has become a part of the US economy. Wall Street was clearly not prepared for it with concerns that price pressures are getting entrenched leaving the S&P 500 down 1.6%...

Who Is Going To Get This Right? The Fed Or The Market

The S&P 500 posted its worst weekly performance since mid-June, slumping 4.78% for the five-day session. The losses came on the back of a solid 3.65% gain last week. The selling pressure started on Tuesday after a hotter than anticipated consumer price inflation...

What the Fed wants, the Fed gets

Chairman Jerome Powell, in highly anticipated remarks from the annual Jackson Hole policy meeting, said in no uncertain terms that interest rates will keep rising and aren’t likely to come down soon. But that’s where the certainty ended. The size of a...

Only the Fed can derail this stock market rally

The week started positively with the stock market continuing its rally despite retailers warning of slowdown, semiconductor companies cautioning on outlook and housing market cracking as expected. But, the resilience of the stock market rally was broken by comments...