Dollar Overnight Money Market interest rate rise to 5.4%
The SOFR rates (Secured Overnight Financing Rate) a direct interest rate function of the Federal Reserve money market system increased overnight to 5.44%, while the amount financed and rolled over overnight was at $1.967 Billion also $ 1.96 Trillion Dollars,…
Italian Government -8.8% Q1 fiscal deficit seems way out of order
The quarterly non-financial sector account summary of Italy’s General Government account gives a brief concise framework of Italy’s public finances and the main economic factors. What caught the eye of keen observers has been the out-of-the-ordinary Q1 fiscal deficit balance…
Extracting Market Performance and Volatility Patterns of Blue-Chip Stocks and the FTSE100 Index
Samples of FTSE100 blue chip stocks and the FTSE100 index have been elaborated to understand the stocks’ returns and the index returns since 2010 up to date. A wide variety of descriptive statistics and volatility measures have been assembled, meanwhile,…