Country US A blockbuster nonfarm payroll report has moved forward taper expectations and allowed the yield curve to steepen. The labor market recovery is accelerating as...
US, Chinese markets fall on Covid worries Financial markets wobbled overnight after the US Manufacturing PMI didn’t hit the heady heights expected by markets. To be...
A few years ago, Paul Wallace penned an article entitled: “GDP Is A Grossly Defective Product.” The recent release of the Q2-2020 report reminded me of it as...
US dollar falls on US data The retreat by the US dollar continued overnight, as US GDP and Initial Jobless Claims reinforced transitory inflation sentiment, flattening...
North Asian equity heavyweights have deviated from the price action on Wall Street overnight, heading directly South this morning. Mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan and South...
Country US The upcoming jobs report will be pivotal for the Fed in deciding whether the economy is headed toward hitting their substantial progress goal. Now...
Futures Slide On Amazon Plunge, But World Markets Set For 6th Month Of Gains US equity futures stumbled - if trading off session lows - and...
Fed hints at September taper, but no promises Overnight, the FOMC released its latest policy decision leaving rates unchanged with no change to its quantitative easing...
US equities climb after soft GDP US stocks rallied to fresh record highs and Treasuries slumped anew after a downside surprise in both GDP and jobless...
Shortest Recession In History Sets Up Next Recession Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, It’s now official that the recession of 2020 was the shortest in...
It's now official that the recession of 2020 was the shortest in history. According to the National Bureau of Economic Research, the contraction lasted just two...
CK is still in the fight of her life. Again, we ask that everybody, everywhere please bring all and whatever you got in the form of...
Investors’ views on the outlook for growth have gone from acceleration to anticipation of the coming peak, while on inflation, expectations have moved from a pickup...
What's Next For The Reflation Trade: 9 Observations From Goldman The rotation back into growth and defensive parts of the market and out of reflation and...
"World's Most Bearish Hedge Fund" Goes Short Tech The world's financial graveyards are covered with the career tombstones of those who, over the past decade, have...
Morgan Stanley: This Cycle Will Be "Hotter But Shorter" Than Usual By Andrew Sheets, Chief Cross-Asset Strategist for Morgan Stanley We think that this economic cycle...
After the June CPI and PPI surge, the Federal Reserve does not appear to have changed its tune. The price pressures are temporary, and the labor...
The greenback is set for its best weekly gain in nearly a month as… The post Dollar lower, but set for best weekly gain in a...
In mid-June, Fed Chair Jay Powell pulled the rug from beneath the reflation trade by suggesting current inflation pressures were perhaps not transitory after all. Fixed...
This month’s upcoming release of preliminary second-quarter economic data is expected to show an impressive acceleration in growth following Q1’s strong rise in gross domestic product....
Our medium-term scenario continues to favour risk and equities, given the fundamental factors and economic policy support. This is an extract of our Asset allocation monthly...
After falling in April and May, the US dollar rebounded in June, gaining against all the major currencies. The move appeared to begin as a technical adjustment...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. George Orwell, 1984 I have said many...
The Federal Reserve recently signalled that the time had come to start considering a scaling-back of its massive emergency support for the US economy as it...
All 23 US Banks Easily Pass Fed's Stress Test, Setting Stage For Billions In Buybacks As we previewed earlier, today the Fed would release the latest...
Futures Steady Ahead Of Powell Testimony U.S. stock-index futures were little changed, trading just 1% below their all time high, while global shares extended their recovery...
S&P Futures, Global Stocks Rebound From Friday's Rout Ahead Of Fed Speaker Parade US equity futures and global stocks recovered some of their Friday losses after...
Nikkei declined 3.3 per cent, while MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan… The post Asian stocks fall on Fed stance first appeared on Trading...
The response by the markets to the FOMC dot plot shock has been variable, to say the least, and not a little surprising to me. Equities...
Overview: A more hawkish than expected Federal Reserve sent the US dollar and interest rates higher and spurred an equity sell-off. The knock-on effect sent ripples...