by JD Lasinger | Sep 11, 2016 | Featured Posts
Central banks running out of ammo has become one of the most popular clichés out there. You will hear analysts all around telling everyone that all the forms of quantitative easing and interest rate cuts have run their course. That is it, no matter what they do...
by JD Lasinger | Sep 11, 2016 | Featured Posts
Low oil prices are taking a toll on every oil producing country, including those fighting tooth and nail to squeeze other producers out. Saudi Arabia’s oil price wars with high cost producers in North America and elsewhere, are forcing the kingdom to slash one third...
by JD Lasinger | Sep 11, 2016 | Featured Posts
Another month has gone by and another set of ambiguous comments with hawkish undertones have turned out to be yet another bluff. The expectation of a Fed rate hike during the month of September has passed. Currency markets are readjusting, with the US Dollar losing...
by JD Lasinger | Sep 8, 2016 | Featured Posts
For almost 3 years now, the US and the EU have been trying to negotiate a free trade agreement – the very kind that is becoming increasingly unpopular and might have played a role in the Brexit vote. So far the parties have failed to agree to technical issues,...
by JD Lasinger | Aug 30, 2016 | Featured Posts
It is no secret to anyone that the Canadian economy has been unable to adjust to the shift in oil price. Once the markets realized that the world was flooded with black gold, all the dominos in the Canadian economy started falling slowly, one by one. Alberta was the...
by JD Lasinger | Aug 28, 2016 | Featured Posts
Slowly but surely, banks around the world are noticing the advantages that blockchain technology – the distributive ledger technology that underpins bitcoin – has for their business. Many of them have already started investing in blockchain technologies to settle...
