Ben Ford

Summary Momentum models slipped -0.2% over the past week. Rates (+0.4) were the only positive performer with FX (-0.3%) and equities (-0.9%) underperforming. Momentum models underperformed across all three asset classes over a three-month timeframe (equities: -5.3%, FX: -1.7%, and rates: -1.0%). Market Implications Momentum models are heavily bullish Gilts – we are long 10Y […]

The Botanic Garden provides a habitat and floral resources to native pollinators and serves as an educational tool for people wanting to do a similar thing in their own gardens.

Summary BLS employment growth revisions (3PM UKT, Wednesday) are forecasted to be the largest in 15 years. However, the Fed are well prepped for revisions; Powell has already been vocal on the topic. Harris (Thursday) is due to speak on the final day of the DNC. She has already revealed a lot about her economic […]

Ah, LinkedIn. Twitter aside, you are by far the least intentionally funny social media site there is.

NOTRE DAME — On the day the Sun Bowl championship trophy was delivered to Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly's office on campus, Kelly received something even more precious: good news

NOTRE DAME — Notre Dame, which just finished a stretch of three games in a row against top-10 teams, could be poised to leap into the college men's basketball top

NOTRE DAME — The Notre Dame women's basketball team walked off the court Saturday afternoon with a depressingly familiar feeling -- that it had just let a chance to beat

EL PASO, Texas — By the time Notre Dame kicks off the 2011 season at home against South Florida next September, the Irish will have gone 308 days without a

Vanessa Ford's brother in law Ben Ford shares this personal reflection on what the family experienced and the questions that remain.

Summary The SNB cut the policy rate by 50bps, to 0.5%. That was their fourth cut of the cycle, but their first 50bp reduction since January 2015. Underlying inflation pressures are weakening with growth proving modest. The unemployment rate is grinding higher, too. In culmination, it led to a lower inflation forecast in the near-term. […]