Back to Reality

September 07, 2021 |Dann Cushing

Ah, Labour Day – it finally arrived, with its usual promise of a new season and a return to more regular routines. Reopening has been occurring at a different cadence in different geographies, but...

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As You Were

June 01, 2021 |Dann Cushing

Financial markets have seen some solid fireworks in 2021: an extreme recovery in the economy, the largest bond market correction in a generation,...

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Runner’s High

May 03, 2021 |Dann Cushing

Many of the world’s largest companies reported earnings this past week, and they were absolutely stellar. Three prime examples:...

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A bit jittery out there...

April 05, 2021 |Dann Cushing

The first quarter of 2021 seems to have come and gone pretty quickly, perhaps due to its Groundhog Day aspects. Nevertheless, it managed to pack in a few...

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Faith

February 01, 2021 |Dann Cushing

So, I’ll do my best not to use the name of “that company” in this update, given the media coverage overkill it received last week. But the fact that...

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Everything Is Awesome

November 29, 2020 |Dann Cushing

Oddly, the title of an unrelentingly upbeat and...

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Surfacing

October 04, 2020 |Dann Cushing

Can you hear that? It is the cacophony of US election drama growing loud enough that...

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Show Me the Money

August 03, 2020 |Dann Cushing

Financial markets have some interesting, self-reinforcing mechanisms. One example is...

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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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