Market Overview

Here’s a Tableau Script I picked up from the Council on Foreign Relations. The summary “Index of Global Tightening or Easing” color-bar can be found just above the map. The index...

The financial markets are generally steady in the early part of the week. DJIA continues to struggle in tight range below recent high at 17811.48 and closed slightly lower by -20.55 pts, or -0.12%, at...

Germany’s revised inflation data to confirm a slight rebound in pricing pressure UK inflation is on track to tick higher in March, posing rates question Sentiment among small companies in the US...

The stock market is still viewed as if it were a discounting mechanism, a system where information is processed and priced to deliver insight about the fundamental state of liquidity, markets, and the...

The old adage is that strong and sustained economic growth cures many ills, if not all of them, so it is unsurprising that so many central banks would be so determined to create it. They are,...

Exploring the costs and benefits of two alternative investment approachesSynopsisProponents of active and passive investment management styles have made exhaustive and valid arguments for and against...

A second consecutive day for the markets with a late push lower after being up strongly for the day. The Friday push lower still allowed for some slight gains, but a black candle was printed, which...

It’s been more than seven years since the financial crisis and Central Banks globally have kept their rates at record lows, and have even ventured into negative rate territory, to stave off the...

Whether you call it a 1970’s style stagflation or, as we call it, a recessflation, investors need to prepare their portfolios to profit from a protracted period of rising prices in the context...

Buy the straddle on SGB1059 with expiry Monday after Riksbank announcement. Straddle on SGB1059 ATM strike at 0.75%. Indicative cost 122 cent (roughly 12bp).To read the entire report Please click on...

Indicators released in recent days have been quite encouraging. We learned on Friday that Canada had created some 40,000 jobs in March, a sharp reversal of the trend seen in the first months of 2016...

Early in the financial crisis, the US forced all large banks to take an infusion of capital. This helped put a floor under the US financial system. Regulators and stakeholders encouraged US banks to...

Chinese inflation data today confirmed that consumer price inflation is subdued as it stayed at 2.3% y/y in March and inflation ex food prices stayed low at 1.0%. The rise in inflation this year is...

Traders have been met with choppy conditions this morning as earnings season kicks off and the strength of the yen continues to confound.Japanese stocks traded south, Nikkei and Topix lost 1.30% and...