The commercial real estate (CRE) implosion has exposed endemic risk among regional banks and foreign financial institutions that adds fuel to a banking crisis bonfire that surfaced last spring after Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank, and First Republic collapsed. A...
The major U.S. stock market indices have had an exceptional rally since the Federal Reserve’s FOMC meeting in Nov. 2023 when the committee membership and Chairman Jay Powell puked a buffet of dovish monetary policy Fedspeak. At the Dec. 13 meeting, they delivered the...
The #TaperCaper manifested with vigor on a Fed pivot during its FOMC monetary policy announcement last Wednesday which included a new dot plot graph (page 4) that forecasts the slashing of interest rates next year. Any reference to it just being “dovish” is an...
The precious metals have traded in correlation to their usual seasonality buying patterns over the last year, and a summer rally appears to be underway after the bottoming price action in late June followed by yesterday’s price spike on the latest CPI inflation...
The banking crisis is shifting rapidly and it’s fluid due to the complex and interconnected global financial system. This update will likely outdate itself by this weekend or next week as the drama unfolds. I began this series by penning a summary of what occurred...