Financial Markets

The following sections include Erdogan Wins Turkey Elections, US Debt Ceiling Agreement, Germany Recession, Taliban-Iran Border Clash and more about AI in the Stock Markets! — Erdogan Wins Turkey Elections Erdogan won re-election after he was declared the winner by the Supreme Election Council in Turkey. After beating Kemal Kilicdaroglu of the opposition Republican People’s Party, Erdogan referred to the inflation problem as one that is “not a difficult problem to solve” in his victory speech. …

“90% of traders lose 90% of their money in the first 90 days of trading. Sounds cliche? Not. This isn’t a coincidence, it’s a statement backed by data from ‘brokers’. …

After my latest posts about the risks commercial real estate poses for the moment of the US economy, I received a few questions inquiring how interest rates affect real estate values. The most obvious connection is the mortgage rates financing real estate investments. Long-term mortgage rates are directly linked to…

By: Rutvij Thakkar The Federal Reserve’s dual mandate is as simple as less than 4% unemployment and less than 2% inflation. Unemployment should ideally be at the “natural rate” or the lowest rate of unemployment possible without creating inflation. Natural unemployment accounts for structural unemployment (skill gaps between workers that prevent them from…

One of the reasons behind the asset bubble (aka “Bubble Everything”) that peaked in 2021 was the extreme “quantitative easing”, which sent the Fed target rate to zero and injected $5 trillion into the US economy. This inflated the Fed’s balance sheet to $9 trillion. Obviously, this excessive amount of…

The following sections include F-16s to Ukraine, Debt Ceiling Talks and Biden’s Pacific Cancellation, Influence in the Pacific, Sam Altman’s Senate Hearing and more about AI! — Bakhmut Falls, Washington F-16s Russia’s Wagner Group head Prigozhin has claimed Ukraine has no military presence left in Bakhmut. Zelenskyy also claimed that “Bakhmut is only in our hearts”, which implies the city is about to fall or already has.

Mehn! It has been a long time since I wrote you a letter. But this time, I want to teach you something that 96% of people take for granted. If you can take it seriously, it will completely change how you make money online. Recently, I had a conversation with…

The rising economic breakdowns reveal a financial unraveling looms on the edge of a precipice — Money Markets and Capital Markets The two most important components in a financial market are the Money Market and Capital Market. These markets are venues where buyers and sellers come together to trade in financial assets such as bonds, stocks, derivatives, currencies and commodities. In the Money Market, only short-term liquid financial instruments are exchanged…

On 27 April 2023, Deutsche Börse agreed to acquire SimCorp, a Denmark-based front-to-back investment management platform, for €3.9 billion. This news doesn’t surprise me, given the fast-depleting tribe of independent trading systems providers. There aren’t too many independent providers left on the block, except for Enfusion, FlexTrade and Linedata being…