2015 Archive Volume
When the Fed finally lifted rates in December 2015, emerging-market forex had already begun fracturing. A forensic look at how policy divergence triggered currency crises across the developing world.
6 files in this volume
The year in numbers
- 330
- Replayable scenarios
This year's files
- 01March 2015: ECB QE Launch and the Euro's Divergent Paths Across G10 Markets
When the ECB unveiled quantitative easing in March 2015, EUR crosses told five different stories—from EUR/JPY's 6.8% rally to EUR/GBP's 5.0% drawdown, all within 64 trading days.
Read the file → - 02December 16, 2015: The Fed's Rate Hike and the Global Commodity Rout
When the Federal Reserve raised rates for the first time in seven years, commodity markets felt it immediately. Dollar strength became the fuse for a cross-sector crisis that hit energy hardest.
Read the file → - 03December 2015: The Federal Reserve Hikes—and Emerging-Market Currencies Fracture
When the Fed finally lifted rates in December 2015, emerging-market forex had already begun fracturing. A forensic look at how policy divergence triggered currency crises across the developing world.
Read the file → - 042015–2017: When Property Markets Climbed Without Falling
A deep dive into the 2010s property boom, tracing US and China city indices through a 30-month climb with near-zero drawdowns and the training lessons buried inside that calm.
Read the file → - 052015-12: The Fed's First Post-Crisis Hike and the Calm That Followed in US Property
In December 2015 the Federal Reserve raised rates for the first time in nearly a decade, testing US property markets already in multi-year recovery. The reaction was remarkably muted.
Read the file → - 06Summer 2015: The Low-Volatility Bull — How Eleven US Property Markets Taught Traders to Trust the Trend
July 2015–December 2017: US residential property entered a sustained advance with minimal turbulence across eleven city indices. How did low volatility reshape decision habits?
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