Today's topics include money market funds & fleeing deposits, stock market returns in 2023, inflation & margins, loosening financial conditions, are money market funds elevating risk?, dollar as the reserve currency, workers in demand, foretelling trouble, how is the Chinese consumer fairing?, Fed's emergency loans fall, and banks versus remote work
Small banks provide a major portion of total bank loans in the U.S. If deposits continue to flee for larger banks, the economy could lose a significant source of funding.
Institutional funds accounted for roughly 88% of the inflows into money market funds since March 10.
The Ethereum Virtual Machine offers developers a way to create all kinds of different utility for the Ethereum blockchain. A quick breakdown of gas usage throughout the years shows how these uses have evolved.
Redfin's alternative measures of the housing market continue to show a slowdown in the crazy conditions of the last year.
Speculators are net short palladium. The metal is a necessary component of combustible engines, but less so in electric cars.
A long-term look at the cost of gas relative to wages
Some interesting charts from our recent posts
Today's topics include high speed deposit flights, big banks vs. small banks, a game of telephone regarding Fed policy, what's next for commercial real estate?, the changing office dynamic, BoJ policy, a laundry list of the problems facing banks, hold to maturity vs. available for sale, positioning for peak hawkishness, and buy the dip
Today's topics include talkin' about the banking crisis with a crypto crowd, a credit crunch strains the economy, accounting gimmickry: hold-to-maturity vs. available-for-sale, too many banks in the U.S.?, the central bank blame game, stocks vs. sentiment, the banking crisis's effect on mortgage rates, and the dollar's slide