Although it will not come as a surprise to regular readers that, for various reasons, loan growth in the US has not only ground to a halt but, for the all important Commercial and Industrial Segment, has dropped at the fastest rate since the financial crisis, some (until recently) economic optimists, such as Bank of America's Ethan Harris, are only now start to realize that the post-election "recovery" was a mirage.
While there was much fanfare over last week's summit at Mar-A-Lago between the presidents of the US and China, the tangible results to emerge from what was the year's most important political meeting, aside for a few photo ops, were few and far between.
Authored by Nick Cunningham of OilPrice.com,
The global market for LNG is changing quickly, spurred on by new sources of supply from U.S. shale.
U.S. natural gas production surged over the past decade, as fracking opened up a wave of new gas supply. That wave led to a glut and a crash in prices long before shale drillers did the same for oil. The U.S. was sitting on massive volumes of gas that routinely traded as low as $2 or $3 per million BTU (MMMBtu).
I am not a particularly big fan of the idea that markets are efficient. In fact I think people who believe this have never spent any time working in investment management. Everyone in the industry has seen how investment fads wash over the industry from time to time, only to wash out again as returns begin to disappoint.
- Russell Clark, CIO of Horseman Global
In today's excerpt from Eric Peters Weekend Note to clients, the CIO of One River Asset Management focuses on the one topic that is first and foremost on the minds of the active investing community: the unprecedented shift from active to passive management, and what it means for not only the industry, but for markets during the next "normal correction."