SOFT DATA VS HARD DATA
The economic data we observe on a daily basis can generally be divided into two distinct categories: hard data and soft data. Hard data are quantitative in nature, objective, measurable figures collected from official
30 May 2025
ECONOMY: THE SPECTRE BACK IN THE CLOSET?
What a week! I must be honest; at one point I was skeptical about even writing our usual quarterly update. If Goldman Sachs changes its economic view within an hour ...
18 Apr 2025
US RECESSION? LESS LIKELY THAN ESTIMATED BY TRADITIONAL MODELS
The volatility observed in the stock markets in recent weeks is largely driven by the assertive and unpredictable communication style of US President Donald Trump. His contradictory statements have fueled
18 Mar 2025
CONFLICTING INDICATORS: NAVIGATING THE NOISE
Overconfidence, or the illusion of control, is one of the many pitfalls in behavioural finance that describes the tendency of...
30 Jan 2025
S&P 500 “Waiting for Godot”
The expected return is an estimate of the investment return at a specific maturity, based on all available information at a given point in time...
15 Nov 2024
BONDS FAVORABLE AMID POTENTIAL RECESSION RISKS
Over the past few weeks, volatility in financial markets has surged, as if investors suddenly recognized that the probability of recession in the coming months is greater than zero. The data that has ...
27 Aug 2024
INVESTMENT INSIGHTS: IN THE MIDST OF A TRANSITION PHASE
Phase transitions. More or less what we think is currently happening in the US economy. Phase transitions is a term often used in chemistry (but not exclusively there) to describe the transformation ...
26 Jul 2024
Inflation and Interest Rates, a Journey into the Metaverse
Interest rates are one of the key variables for estimating the Intrinsic Value of the stock market and consequently its expected long-term return ...
01 Jul 2024
Investment Insights: Navigating Global Markets
Those that have been lucky enough to live through the year 2000s tend to always expect the unexpected. It’s a matter of experience
06 May 2024
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