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New study examines relationship between electricity usage and …

A new study by Zhi Da, Viola D. Hank Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Notre Dame, shows that the growth rate in industrial electricity usage negatively predicts next one-year stock market returns.“For example, if the industrial electricity usage this month is one percent lower than that in the same month last year, we predict the stock market […]

Another Stock-Market Bubble? | RealClearPolitics

WASHINGTON — Without QE, will the stock market tank? Count me a skeptic.QE refers to “quantitative easing,” the Federal Reserve’s multitrillion-dollar program of bond buying that is now ending. I recently devoted a column to whether QE worked as intended. The short answer is that we don’t know. The idea was that by buying bonds the Fed would inject money […]