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Unprecedented measures The European Central Bank assumes that the economic boom of the pandemic will be much bigger than the downturn after the 2008 credit crisis. To deal with this blow, the [...]

Trump wouldn’t be Trump if he wasn’t looking for someone or something he can act against on Twitter. There are many examples of this. The fact that he doesn’t always take the [...]

By Chelton Wealth Two different stories Since the bottom of March, the S&P 500 index has already risen by 32 percent. Lockdowns are being eased everywhere and the economic figures are [...]

In the Market Blog this time attention is paid to the pressure cooker in which the US and China have ended up together. The conflict casts its long shadow ahead to the presidential elections of [...]

House index This week in the United States several figures are reported on the state of the housing market. Today, for example, the number of building permits and houses under construction. [...]

Since the end of April, oil prices are back on the rise. After a free fall of the (WTI) oil price in mid-April, in which there was even a temporary negative oil price for the U.S. oil variant of [...]

None of it was news, but when the president of the US system of central banks says it, it still makes an impression. Yesterday Fed Chairman Jerome Powell gave a speech for the Peterson Institute [...]

Mass unemployment and rising stock markets More than 30 million people in the United States have been made unemployed since the coronavirus outbreak. Companies are reporting sharp declines in [...]

The Great Recession Twelve years ago, the world entered a severe financial crisis. The Great Recession was a fact. Banks had done their devastating work with unbridled lending and risky [...]

By: Wolfgang Jäggi European equity markets started this new week negatively. Due to local holidays, the Japanese stock exchange will only open on Thursday and Shanghai on Wednesday. Last Friday, [...]