Futures Slide, Europe Tumbles As Evergrande Contagion Shockwave Goes Global In retrospect, China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan picked a great day to take a holiday,...
Steyn: A Hinge Moment Of History Authored by Mark Steyn via The Gatestone Institute, It was certainly the weirdest year. It began with a supremely weird...
In terms of central bank meetings, the week ahead is one of the busiest. No fewer than 13 central banks hold policy meetings, divided between six...
Futures On Edge As Quad-Watching Set To Wipe Out A Third Of Market Gamma Quad-witching opex Friday has arrived, bringing with it the usual drama of...
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Overview: The week is winding down and risk-appetites seem vulnerable even though the MSCI Asia Pacific Index pared its first weekly loss in four, led by...
Futures Fall Ahead Of Another Disappointing Retail Sales Number US equity futures slid, fading Wednesday's torried one-day rally, as investors awaited data on jobless claims and...
A Pandemic Of Authoritarianism... Authored by Alastair Crooke via The Strategicd Culture Foundation, What we see is an attempt to impose an idealised technical managerialism onto a...
Those pesky base effects. For most of the world’s economic data, these have contributed much to creating the misimpression the global economy is doing well, if...
Futures Fade As Dismal China News Steamrolls Sentiment While Microsoft did everything it could to halt the recent market drop which has dragged stocks lower on...
Overview: The sixth decline of the S&P 500 in the past seven sessions set a negative tone for equity trading in the Asia Pacific region, and the...
Global Debt Hits A Record $300 Trillion, Up $36 Trillion Since COVID Another quarter, another all time high in global debt (don't expect this to ever...
Futures Coiled Ahead Of Critical CPI Print Having come dangerously close to dropping 6 days in a row, the longest streak since Feb 2020, US stock-index...
The dollar index stood at 92.622, having retreated from a two-week high of 92.887… The post Dollar little changed ahead of U.S. inflation data first appeared...
Futures Bounce After 5-Days Of Declines Ahead Of Tomorrow's Critical CPI World stocks ground higher with US futures and European stocks all in the green after...
Morgan Stanley: Countries Will Transition Toward Acceptance Of COVID As An Endemic Problem They Must Live With By Chetan Ahya, Chief Economist and Global Head of...
The EUR/USD price remained under pressure even after a relatively hawkish European Central Bank (ECB) decision last week. The pair fell to 1.1810, which was 0.35%...
Futures Rebound After Biden, Xi Chat Global stocks rose and S&P futures rebounded from a freak selling episode late on Thursday after news that Joe Biden...
Overview: The US dollar is paring this week's gains, retreating against most of the major and emerging market currencies today amid a risk-on mood. Inconclusive talks...
US stocks pared losses after weekly jobless claims hit a fresh pandemic low and as the ECB turns optimistic enough to moderate their PEPP buying. The...
Oil jumps on report of Suez Canal blockage Crude prices sharply rose after reports that a ship was stuck in the Suez Canal, potentially disrupting movement...
Futures Slide Ahead Of ECB, Sentiment Hit By Latest China Crackdown US index futures fell along with European stocks amid jitters that the ECB could taper...
ECB Tapers Pandemic Bond Buying To "Moderately Lower Pace"... But Don't Call It Tapering (Update 8:45am ET): The euro dropped to session lows, erasing earlier gains...
The euro has posted small gains in the Thursday session. Currently, EUR/USD is trading at 1.1827, up 0.10%. The sole data event out of the eurozone...
Overview: Yesterday's retreat in US indices was part of and helped further this bout of profit-taking. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index ended an eight-day advance yesterday...
Wall Street edged lower overnight as markets shuffled between concerns over the US recovery after a downbeat Fed Beige Book and tapering nerves after the New...
The U.S. Dollar Index edged up 0.02% to 92.668 The dollar was up on… The post Dollar rises ahead of ECB policy decision first appeared on...
(1) This sums it all up: Today, low policy rates are no longer a countercyclical tool. Instead, they are a structural feature of the financial system....
Futures Extend Slide, European Markets Drop On Growth, Tapering Fears World stocks receded from the previous session’s record highs, European stocks were headed for the biggest...
The USD/CHF price bounced back as the US dollar bounced back. The pair tilted higher even after the relatively encouraging economic data from Switzerland. It is...