THE LEAD: The Honey Badger Market – Why Today’s Stocks Fear Nothing
For decades, investors have framed market moods in the language of animals. When stocks tumble and pessimism reigns, it’s called a bear market. When...
AI REGS & RISKS | Regulators Don’t Want You Using Cloud-Based GenAI Yet
By Greg Woolf, AI RegRisk Think Tank
Before financial institutions can fully embrace generative AI, regulators are sending a clear warning: not so fast. The Treasury Department,...
THE LEAD: Good, Bad and Who Cares
Does anything matter? Good news? Bad news? Any news?
Of course, we're talking about financial markets. Knowing that football (American style) has just kicked off,...
What’s IN and Never OUT?
Some things are always IN. Never IN one week and OUT the next. It's very rare, but these things do happen. Of course, some...
THE LEAD: What’s Up? Oh, Just the Fed
Here we go again. New week. New things to look forward to and old things to forget (for now anyway). Getting harder to know...
THE LEAD: New Week. What’s In? What’s Out?
Last week? Oh, that’s so last week. Whatever was “in” then is “out” now. It’s become quite a pattern — in and out, with...
THE LEAD: New News Replaces Old News
Seriously now, last week inflation was a hot topic (before Friday anyway) with the release of the Fed's PCE (personal consumption expenditure) index. Inflation...
THE LEAD | A Turning Point
Fast pivot. Scratch last week. Stand up, sit down, stand up again and spin around. Things have changed fast...again.
Last week peace in Ukraine was...
THE LEAD | Out With The Old, In With The New
Attention spans change quickly. Really quickly. What's old this week was hot last week. What's new this week might include something that was hot...
THE LEAD | Forget Last Week, It’s This Week
Still thinking about last week? Drop it. Forget it. What was HOT last week is NOT this week. Things are moving fast and furious....