RMB Market Insights

It finally happened… Germany joined Japan and Switzerland in the negative interest rate club. It will now cost you to lend money to the governments of these three advanced, industrial nations for 10 years or… Read More

Commodities are just starting to get noticed by the financial press, but a stealth bull market has been raging in this sector for quite some time. Many key markets are up substantially from their lows…. Read More

Made popular by his book “The Black Swan: The Impact Of The Highly Improbable” (Penguin, 2008), Nassim Nicholas Taleb, investor and Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University, is credited for cementing the term… Read More

In our latest blog series “Investing in the Age of Trump”: Parts One, Two and Three, we examined the Trump phenomenon, assessed his odds of winning and determined that he would be the Republican nominee… Read More

April showers bring May flowers, but will a budding bull market in commodities bloom this May? Emerging green shoots in gold, silver and crude oil could be early signs that the deep freeze gripping commodities… Read More

Stock market investors should get ready for a wild ride in the next few months – especially if Donald J. Trump wins it all in November. The last two major stock market crashes occurred during… Read More

In Part 1 of “Investing in the Age of Trump”, we examined the key causes of his unexpected primary performance and potential Republican nomination. While there are no sure bets in politics, last Tuesday’s primaries… Read More

A “black swan” is a metaphor created by essayist and statistician Nassim Taleb. Black swans describe unanticipated events that tend to have dramatic and unpredictable effects. There has been a lot said about “black swans”… Read More

The massive El Niño we wrote about in our Big Move Trade Alert last July may be fading but its effects will continue to be felt for months. El Niño is a tropical phenomenon, so… Read More