Weather The Storm

March 30, 2020 |Dann Cushing

A month that will likely prove to have been the most volatile ever for equity markets is drawing to a close. As it does so, yet another unique aspect of this sell-off is becoming apparent:...

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Waiting for Godot

November 18, 2019 |Dann Cushing

In the empty space that follows a deluge of new information, the behaviour of financial markets can often be quite telling....

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Grace Under Fire

November 04, 2019 |Dann Cushing

The balance of probabilities in equity markets has been to the downside since May:...

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Size Matters

October 15, 2019 |Dann Cushing

In the last update, we proposed the following key question for financial markets: ...

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Asking the Right Questions

October 01, 2019 |Dann Cushing

After a noisy summer for financial markets, each passing week in September has been helpful for refining the proper question to ask...

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Action, reaction

September 16, 2019 |Dann Cushing

It was a busy couple of weeks for pundits. Amidst the now normal, daily changes in trade policy, this summer’s one way decline in interest rates abruptly reversed. The reaction...

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Dog Days are Over

September 02, 2019 |Dann Cushing

Financial markets finished off the dog days of summer in a fitting fashion for 2019: rapid-fire political jabs...

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Subdued before Q2 Earnings

July 14, 2019 |Dann Cushing

In the absence of other news flow, the investors focused primarily on positive signaling from the Fed – specifically on Jerome Powell’s testimony...

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Uncertainty Ahead

July 01, 2019 |Dann Cushing

Highlighting uncertainty in financial markets is typically a low-value-add comment – that is their whole reason for existence, after all. We are also acutely aware of the risks of confirmation bias. Nevertheless, there are enough tangible risks

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Core Questions for Financial Markets

June 15, 2019 |Dann Cushing

Equity markets rose 4%, recovering about half of May’s losses as we entered wait-and-see period. The core question for financial markets remains whether trade-inflicted damage on business confidence will take hold faster and/or outweigh the benefit o

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