When both index futures and underlying stocks are trading at the same time, index arbitrage keeps the index futures price near to fair value. While the stock market in the United States begins at 9:30 a.m. EST and closes at 4:00 p.m. EST, index futures trade around the clock on systems such as Globex, a […]
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The business cycle includes recessions, which are a normal, albeit unpleasant, part of the process. A spate of corporate failures, including often bank failures, weak or negative growth in production, and high unemployment characterize recessions. Even if recessions are only temporary, the economic misery they create can have significant consequences that transform an economy. This […]
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Inflation control is more crucial than unemployment control. Inflation is increased by a rapid decline in unemployment rates. The inverse relationship between inflation and unemployment makes it a particularly difficult issue to understand, but why is that? Is there anything more essential than reducing unemployment? In the first part of the twentieth century, economists usually […]
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Venezuela has the highest debt-to-GDP ratio in the world as of December 2020, by a wide margin. Venezuela may have the world’s greatest oil reserves, but the state-owned oil corporation is thought to be poorly managed, and the country’s GDP has fallen in recent years. Simultaneously, Venezuela has taken out large loans, increasing its debt […]
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Interest rates are its primary weapon in the fight against inflation. According to Yiming Ma, an assistant finance professor at Columbia University Business School, the Fed does this by determining the short-term borrowing rate for commercial banks, which subsequently pass those rates on to consumers and companies. This increased rate affects the interest you pay […]
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A futures contract option offers the holder the right, but not the duty, to purchase or sell a certain futures contract at a striking price on or before the expiration date of the option. These work in a similar way to stock options, except the underlying security is a futures contract instead of a stock. […]
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The type of annuity and its investing strategy determine how well it performs during a recession. For example, if you have an equity-indexed annuity and the stock market falls, you will most likely only receive the guaranteed minimum interest, with very little growth. If you have a fee-only annuity, which is free of fees and […]
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Recessions normally occur 18 months after that, indicating that a recession will come by the end of 2024. Prior to the pandemic, the earliest a recession could happen after an inversion was nine months, or March 2023. Is there going to be a recession in 2021? Unfortunately, a worldwide economic recession in 2021 appears to […]
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The Phillips curve shows that historically, inflation and unemployment have had an inverse connection. High unemployment is associated with lower inflation or even deflation, whereas low unemployment is associated with lower inflation or even deflation. This relationship makes sense from a logical standpoint. When unemployment is low, more people have extra money to spend on […]
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Recessions typically last eight to nine months, putting the next one around the middle of 2024. If the current market follows its historical trajectory, the current turmoil should be viewed as a one-time blip in risk markets. “The playbook is historically accurate,” he argues. Is a recession in 2022 expected? To listen to the podcast, […]
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