Market Overview

Wednesday April 12: Five things the markets are talking aboutDespite safe haven flows remaining the prevalent market theme on geopolitical risks related to conflicts in Syria and saber rattling by...

European stock markets opened upbeat. Euro Stoxx advanced to highest levels since December, as individual stock news reversed the risk-off trading earlier in Asia.Automakers lead gains in Frankfurt,...

Markets are calmer today. The significant movers yesterday have stabilized. The dollar has been unable to resurface above JPY110, but after plumbing to new lows near JPY109.35 in Asia, the dollar has...

Today’s claimant count report is expected to reflect low macro risk for the UK The outlook for Britain is encouraging, despite some pessimism about Brexit Retail sales in Brazil on track to rise...

A couple of years ago I audited a fascinating EdX course offered by Cornell on the history of American capitalism. It’s now archived.Benjamin C. Waterhouse’s book The Land of Enterprise: A...

Shopped and now the dropWe wouldn’t be closing in on a bank holiday weekend if we didn’t see markets sell off into the break and yesterday that is what they did. The yen and Swiss franc...

Since the financial crisis, the risk of in-work poverty – i.e. having a job but receiving less than 60% of the median disposable income after social transfers – has risen in Europe. In...

With the Fed having hiked thrice and calling for three more hikes still, the 2017 Hoisington First Quarter Review contains a call that will have many if not most analysts shaking their heads:...

The financial markets are clearly in risk averse mode on escalating geopolitical tensions. Gold jumps to as high as 1281.8 so far, comparing to last week's close at 1257.3, and is heading towards 1300...

FTSE +9 points at 7374DAX +28 points at 12167 CAC +9 points at 5110 Euro Stoxx +5 points at 3475 Chinese consumer price inflation printed 0.9% on year to March, slightly faster than 0.8% a month...

Market movers today In the UK, the labour market report for March is due. We estimate the unemployment rate (3M average) will be unchanged at 4.7% while we estimate the annual growth rate in average...

The G-7 Nations acting like the League of Nations seems to have finally opened the floodgates as markets seek safe havens ahead of the Easter break.As expected, in all honesty, the G-7 officials...

A new Credit Suisse (SIX:CSGN) report about hedge fund investors’ appetites, titled “shifting tides,” comes to the somewhat re-assuring conclusion that, in some respects at least,...

With little in the way of news on both the equity and economic fronts, uncertainty surrounding the geopolitical landscape appeared to drive U.S. equities lower in another volatile session. Treasury...