In light of the horrors we see each day in pictures, I should be remiss to say that markets have grown accustomed to the ongoing war in Ukraine. That said, it does appear they have now settled into something of a trading range and very well could remain content to…
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There was a faint glimmer of hope late last week that the ongoing negotiations between Ukraine and Russia could produce something positive over the weekend. Seeing that was not the case, commodity markets are on a mission to restore risk premium this morning. Evidently, Russia’s idea of a peace settlement…
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MARCH 18, 2022 Maybe we were going through some type of fiscal and monetary Advent season, but after seemingly months of anticipation, the wait is over. This past week, Federal Reserve boosted the Fed Funds rate 25-basis points, the first increase since 2018. As with just about anything that has…
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In the classic story, Through the Looking Glass, by Louis Carrol, an exasperated Alice exclaimed, “In our country, you’d generally get somewhere else, if you ran very fast for a long time, as we’ve been doing.” To this, the Red Queen responded, “Now, here, you see, it takes all the…
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In the classic story, Through the Looking Glass, by Louis Carrol, an exasperated Alice exclaimed, “In our country, you’d generally get somewhere else, if you ran very fast for a long time, as we’ve been doing.” To this, the Red Queen responded, “Now, here, you see, it takes all the…