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Taming the Bulls and Bears: Can Machine Learning Learn to play the Stock-Market game?
Harnessing Machine Learning for Stock Market Predictions: Navigating the Random Walk The Quest for Predicting Stock Prices: Machine...
Richard Walker
Apr 29, 20248 min read
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Clearing House Rules: The Balancing Act of Central Clearing in the Repo Market
Central Clearing in the Repo Market Balancing Benefits and Risks The Integral Role of Central Clearing for Repo Market Resilience The...
Richard Walker
Apr 29, 20247 min read
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Accessing the TPI is fine, but sooner or later you run out of somebody else’s money...
Executive Summary On September 25th Italy will elect its 67th government since the second world war This comes at a time of soaring...
Richard Walker
Jul 26, 20224 min read
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Central Banking - Mind the gap
Executive Summary Central banks seek to shepherd the economy through cyclical shifts If an economy runs too hot inflation can take hold,...
Richard Walker
Jul 19, 20227 min read
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If you wanted to start your journey, I would start from anywhere but here...
Summary Debt to GDP levels have risen to historically high levels in many countries The UK, much like others in the G7, has borrowed in...
Richard Walker
Jul 12, 20226 min read
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Skating away on the thin ice of a new day...
Summary The UK's current Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, is under siege. In early June he survived a vote of 'no confidence' with 148 MPs...
Richard Walker
Jul 6, 20226 min read
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Roll-on Italy.
Summary With over €674Bn of debt maturing in 2022 and 2023 and secular rises in interest rates, Italy has been in the news. The ECB is...
Richard Walker
Jun 28, 20227 min read
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Inflation vs Fragmentation: A very European dilemma
Summary In a previous post we examined the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy; specifically the use of QE and short end rate changes to...
Richard Walker
Jun 24, 20227 min read
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The Federal Reserve rate rise: Some historical context.
Summary We examine the Federal' Reserve's mandate for price stability. We look at the track record of US price stability since the mid...
Richard Walker
Jun 22, 20226 min read
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Inflation Targeting
With Inflation and Central Bank rate rises making the front pages again, we thought it was worthwhile to publish a short primer on...
Richard Walker
Jun 22, 20223 min read
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