Mortgage-backed security yields remain high, and they can make sense for investors looking to extend duration to help reduce reinvestment risk once the Federal Reserve begins to cut rates. Extending durationhas been a key theme of ours for months. Short-term yields, like those offered by Treasur...
While none of these suggest entirely rational decisions by traders, a more prosaic and far less flattering depiction of investors is just that they don't do math well.7For this reason, some may struggle to adjust their valuation models properly for the new share structure enough to produce the...
Banks borrow at the discount window when they are experiencing short-term liquidity shortfalls and need a quick cash infusion. Banks generally prefer to borrow from other banks, since the rate is cheaper and the loans do not require collateral. The term "discount window" refers to the now ob...
Emini futures were launched in September 1997 to attract non-professional investors to index futures trading. Previously, the only game in town had been the “large” (SP) contract, but it had become too expensive for the “little guy” to trade. So, the CME created the Emini contract, ...
especially in the complex and rapidly-changing financial landscape. Whether it’s protecting against volatile market conditions, maintaining a balanced risk profile, optimizing investment strategies, or providing insurance against unexpected events, hedging is a vital tool for investors and traders alike. ...
(FNMA & FHLMC HARP but it expired, VA IRRRL, or FHA streamline.) This is still a lender to lender business practice, and because it is ultimately the investors guideline and the investor doesn’t purchase the loan/mortgage backed security(MBS) immediately; the lender can make the RoR call...
Then once you actually start getting customers, once you start getting people interacting with you and interacting with your brand, don’t spend so much time guessing but use the data that you do have. Use the data that you have from the customers, from your database of people that have ...
flight behavior, but one needs to look at the number of recurrent thoughts too (referred to as rumination intensity by Martin & Tesser1996). Low rumination intensity explains the reason why noncomplainers are usually less negative and do not want to fight. Non-complaint is preceded by less ...
The support from passionate retail investors I’m most likely forgetting some factors, but these are some of the most important ones, in my opinion. Many will say that they weren’t equally important, and that might be true, but I seriously doubt that Tesla would have survived if you remov...
Basically, when we train GAN we use the Discriminator ( D ) for the sole purpose of better training the Generator ( G ). Often, after training the GAN we do not use the D any more. MHGAN and DRS, however, try to use D in order to choose samples generated by G that are close ...