by JD Lasinger | Jun 29, 2016 | Featured Posts
The downturn that started on Friday, the day after Britain decided it wanted to part ways with the EU, was indeed exaggerated. Now the markets are taking a break from the self-flagellation, and investors seem to be returning to the fundamentals. Although it is too...
by JD Lasinger | Jun 28, 2016 | Featured Posts
Widespread panic is the only way to describe how the markets reacted to Brexit on Monday. The first week after 15.6 million Britons turned world markets over, the Pound seems to be in a free fall with oil, the Euro, and almost every major index and industrial metals...
by JD Lasinger | Jun 27, 2016 | Featured Posts
The unthinkable happened. It turns out that Greece was not the first one to leave the European Union, despite having many more reasons to do so than any other member. It was the UK that delivered the first blow to a weakened union, which just a year earlier was...
by JD Lasinger | Jun 23, 2016 | Featured Posts
As the latest polls come in, politicians on both the ‘remain’ and ‘leave’ sides make a last ditch effort to put their camp over the hump and take the election. Until now, every poll reaffirms what everyone already knows: the British public is split almost evenly down...
by JD Lasinger | Jun 22, 2016 | Featured Posts
The Fed under Janet Yellen’s leadership has become the hardest central bank to understand in terms of its policy. This is due to the fact that its leadership changes its mind often and quickly. In fact it seems that Yellen herself is basing her judgement more on...
by JD Lasinger | Jun 21, 2016 | Featured Posts
When it comes to politics, markets are as fickle as they can be. Closing in on the Brexit vote this Thursday, every half a point that either camp gains or loses on a poll, sends the markets through a roller coaster ride. Monday was only different from the past few...
