SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- After August marked the Dow’s worst month, September opened with U.S.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — Albert “Pete” Kyle is the Charles E. Smith Chair Professor of Finance at the Robert H.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — Kristen Fanarakis is the assistant director of the Center for Financial Policy at the Robert H. Smith School of Business.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — William Longbrake is Executive in Residence at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, and senior policy advisor at the school’s Center for Financial Policy. Q: What is the likelihood that the Fed will raise rates in September? If it does raise rates, by how much will it do so?

SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- Think of China like Walmart and the country’s recent currency devaluation like a price-slashing sale.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- High-frequency traders provide a useful service but rig the system when they extract tolls from investors, a professor from the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business said this week during a financial regulation conference in Australia.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- Is "quarterly capitalism" a problem for the American economy? Hillary Clinton hopes to make the alleged short-term focus of corporations an issue in the 2016 presidential campaign.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- Median home prices have surged past the U.S. record set in 2006 at the peak of the real estate bubble, but don’t expect a repeat of the Great Recession. Instead, a mortgage risk expert at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business expects an eventual market slowdown driven by a mixture of negative and positive factors.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST -- On its face, Bank of America delegating stress test oversight to its human resources chief is a "head scratcher," says Clifford Rossi, professor of the practice at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — Greece appears to be entering the end game of its long-running financial drama.