Overview: While the World Health Organization debates about downgrading Covid from a pandemic, the rise China and Hong Kong cases is striking. A lockdown...
Monday’s these days usually present a confusing picture to investors, and this one is no different. Reuters is reporting that both Ukraine and Russia...
The EC recommended that EU governments should move to a neutral fiscal stance next… The post Euro zone likely to back broadly neutral fiscal stance first...
More and more people are looking to park their wealth in safe haven assets in a move designed to weather economic uncertainty. The post 5 Safe...
India Is Mulling Rupee-Ruble Payments System For Trade With Russia Authored by Jerri-Lynn Scofield via NakedCapitalism.com, India is discussing...
Futures Soar On Ukraine "Positive Developments" Comment From Putin Here comes another rollercoaster of a day for markets. In a rerurn of...
Market volatility continues Volatility continued unabated overnight, with oil trading in a USD 9.0 a barrel range, almost pedestrian by recent standards....
ECB Hawkish Surprise Sends EU Bond Yields Soaring With expectations set low for any actual market-moving announcements, today's ECB statement...
Futures Slide On Inflation Fears As Ukraine Ceasefire Hopes Crumble After yesterday's furious short covering/technical driven surge in risk...
Overview: Strong US equity gains yesterday helped lift Asia Pacific markets today. Tokyo led the move with a nearly 4% gain in the Nikkei. Taiwan...
Futures Surge After 4 Day Rout On Ukraine War Optimism; Cryptos Soar After two days of sheer market insanity, including Monday's furious plunge...
Why Hike? Global Financial Conditions Are The Tightest In Over Three Years With the Fed dead set to hike 25bps next week, a question has emerged...
Global equities fell by almost three percent in February (MSCI AC World index in US dollar terms) as investor alarm over the prospect of faster-than-expected...
Russia’s conflict with Ukraine and the resulting geopolitical tensions have prompted sharp falls in local assets, a shift to a risk-off stance in global...
Futures Rebound On "Massive" EU Bond Stimulus Plan; Nickel Halted After Record Surge, Gold Over $2000 Futures rebounded from yesterday huge...
EU To Reveal Plan For "Potentially Massive" Joint Bond Sales To Fund Energy And Defense In an arrangement similar to the bloc's $2 trillion...
Futures Tumble, Europe In Bear Market As Oil, Gold Soar Not much has changed since our market update last night which saw all risk assets...
Record Commodity Prices Pose Dilemma For Beijing By Ye Xie, Bloomberg Markets Live strategist and reporter Three things we learned last week: 1....
The global economy is going through a rough patch as the Covid-19 pandemic eases and the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues. As a result, some currencies...
One of the most significant market responses to Russia's attack on Ukraine is in the expectations for the trajectory of monetary policy in many of the...
West Scrambles To Stop Russia From Accessing $17 Billion In IMF Reserves As the EU and the US continue to search for new ways to punish...
Here are the threats being faced by banks, companies and investment funds.
Futures Slide With Traders Shellshocked From Ukraine Newsflow It has been another rollercoaster session, which saw futures tumble around 7pm...
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has been driving the price of the Dollar, as investors look for stability in the greenback. While geopolitical tensions...
Overview: The capital and commodity markets are becoming less orderly. The scramble for dollars is pressuring the cross-currency basis swaps. Volatility...
Futures Take Cover As Commodities Go Apeshit US stock index futures were flat on Thursday as investors assessed the impact of a surge in...
Supply chain disruptions continue to be a major challenge as the world economy recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic. In a January post, we presented the...
Luongo: Opening Salvos Thrown, What Are Putin's Next Steps In Ukraine? Authored by Tom Luongo via Gold, Goats, 'n Guns blog, Last week I...
The sell-off is on hold on Wednesday as investors regroup following another big move lower a day earlier. European stocks are paring gains and the US...
Futures Rebound On Hopes Of Resuming Ukraine Negotiations, Oil Soars To Decade High U.S. futures and European stocks rose on Wednesday after...