Richard Hastings has been the Macro and Consumer Strategist for Seaport Global Securities for over ten years. As an analyst at Seaport, Richard provides strategic insights into the consumer sector of the economy, the retailing industry, housing and construction, labor and employment, forex and capital markets and trade.
Richard has several decades of financial industry experience and previously served on the board for the CFA Society of North Carolina. He is noted for his work on credit and the housing market that anticipated the credit crisis of 2007; he monitors major forex pairs, especially the Japanese Yen. He is a frequent guest on CNBC and appears as a speaker at industry conferences internationally.