Overview: The dollar continues to ride high. It is up 0.20%-0.50% today against the G10 currencies. Most pairs have extended last week's moves. The Dollar Index, which was near 100 in late September is approaching 106.00. Emerging market currencies are all weaker, as well. The dollar is being helped by higher US yields. After yesterday's holiday, the US 10-year yield is up five basis points to near 4.36%. The two-year yield also is five basis points higher to almost...

Die US-Wahl wird die knappste aller Zeiten. Diese weit verbreitete Einschätzung hat sich als völlig falsch erwiesen. Donald Trump kehrt mit einem überzeugenden Wahlergebnis ins Weisse Haus zurück. «Worauf sollten sich die Investoren für die Zukunft einstellen?», fragen sich die Experten von M&G Investment.

Europe was slowly, painfully recovering from WWII. Liberalism—which had seemingly won the day against fascism in the West—was seeking to revitalize itself. It had tried before the war—through the Walter Lippmann colloquium—to moderate itself back into relevance. Many of the figures from the colloquium were intent to try again, with lessons learned from the war. One attendee—Ludwig von Mises—had no intentions of moderating, and was even more convinced that such a road...

Bayer erwartet in diesem und im nächsten Jahr einen sinkenden operativen Gewinn und setzt auf Kostensenkungen. Die Aktie sackt um 13 Prozent ab und fällt auf ein 20-Jahres-Tief.

What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order....

Die Genfer Privatbank will dem Engagement für nachhaltige Entwicklung auch in ihrer internen Organisation mehr Raum geben. Eine neue Managerin soll dabei helfen, das umzusetzen.

Laut Mitteilung wird Nathalie Cerutti zur Direktorin für Corporate Social Responsibility ernannt. Sie kommt von Lombard Odier.

Investor exuberance has rarely been so optimistic. In a recent post, we discussed investor expectations of returns over the next year, according to the Conference Board’s Sentiment Index. To wit: “Consumer confidence in higher stock prices in the next year remains at the highest since 2018, following the 2017 “Trump” tax cuts.“ (Note: this survey was completed before the Presidential Election.) We also discussed households’ allocations to equities, which,...

Just ignore the economists, says a recent article in The Atlantic. Well, what about listening to economists concerning the devastating effects of price controls? If we ignore economists, then it would be easy to ignore market interventionists’ uncontrollable and intoxicating need to impose price floors and ceilings in marketplaces and the effects of these controls on society at large. What economists know that The Atlantic author does not know is that there are...

«Die Wahlen in Japan führten zu einer Pattsituation: Bisher konnte weder die bisherige Regierung noch die Opposition Mehrheiten bilden», schreibt Luca Castoldi, Senior Portfolio Manager bei REYL Intesa Sanpaolo Singapore.