Insight into the Impact of Credit Disequilibrium on Financial Markets
Reflections on the Fisher Effect
David Glasner in a recent blog post referred to a paper he wrote in January 2011 on The Fisher Effect Under Deflationary Expectations. The paper is well worth reading for anyone interested in the interplay between monetary policy, asset prices and the recent financial...
Investors Continue to Ignore Falling Profit Rates at Their Peril
The oasis of calm that investors have become addicted to since the advent of quantitative easing has been rudely interrupted. Between July 20th and August 25th, the S&P Composite fell by more than 12% , triggered by the drop in the Shanghai stock exchange of nearly...
Reserve Bank of India Should Not Let Monsoon Dictate Monetary Policy
The Reserve Bank of India cut the policy repo rate by another 0.25% on June 2 to 7.25%. The market reaction sent the SENSEX index of Indian equities down by 660 points - nearly two and a half per cent. Bank governor Raghuram Rajan commented that he remained concerned...
Capital Destruction in emerging markets
The variability of emerging market performance implies that asset allocation be best approached from a country perspective. An analysis of the ex post Wicksellian Differentials and ex ante signals of BRIC countries highlights continuing diverging trends with the...
Preserving capital and avoiding market volatility – Credit Cycle Investing
The rate of profit growth appears to have stalled in the United States resulting in declining equity valuations. However, the extent of the cumulative credit process in this credit cycle implies a much lower level of asset correlation than in previous cycles. The...
Credit Capital Advisory launches quarterly credit cycle signal for the US market
The cumulative Wicksellian process that has been developing since 2009 has led to an increase in demand for more timely credit cycle signals. As a result Credit Capital Advisory has now launched its ex ante signals which update on a quarterly basis, a month before...