This post is a guest contribution by Bennet Sedacca*, President of Atlantic Advisors Asset Management. As regular readers know, I have had a cautious, even bearish view, towards equities and credit over the past couple of years....
Read MoreAs investors ring out the old year, trading volume should remain light until battle-weary traders return from the holidays next week. Not much weight should therefore be placed on market movements during this “thin”...
Read MoreThis post is a guest contribution by Asha Bangalore* and James Pressler** of The Northern Trust Company. Several questions pertaining to the Japanese economic crisis and quantitative easing have been trickling in as...
Read MoreInvestors spent the holiday-shortened Christmas week in an un-merry mood, digesting more gloomy economic data and taking stock of a tumultuous 2008. With the S&P 500 Index and the Dow Jones Industrial Index down by 35.8% and...
Read MoreThis post is a guest contribution by Vitaliy N. Katsenelson*, author of Active Value Investing: Making Money in Range-Bound Markets and director of research at Investment Management Associates. I often start my mornings with...
Read MoreOnly four more trading sessions remain before we close the door on 2008 – and none too soon, many investors would say. But moving from ’08 to ’09 will unfortunately not dim the lights on the nature of the...
Read MoreWith only a few trading days remaining, the curtain will soon be drawn on what has been a tumultuous year in every sense of the word. The fallout of the credit crisis tested investors’ mettle unlike any other period I have...
Read MoreAre the various central bank liquidity facilities and capital injections having the desired effect of unclogging credit markets and restoring confidence in the world’s financial system? This is precisely what the...
Read MoreNouriel Roubini, professor at Stern School of Business at New York University and chairman of RGE Monitor, is renowned for having foreseen the current economic malaise a number of years ago. He was scorned at the time by...
Read More“Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity [greed!] is what is doing us in,” said James Reston, former New York Times journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner. Another chapter in...
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