Market Overview

When the phantom wealth evaporates and risk assets go bidless, cash will once again be king, for the simple reason there will be so little of it.Occasionally it's a good idea to step away from the...

As we tick towards the end of the quarter, the news feeds are starting to look like they occasionally do when we are having a big spike in volatility.We have the Greece deadline coming up. I...

Even Wall Street has standards.I know that might sound hard to believe, but to benefit from the liquidity, capital-raising power and prestige that come with a listing on the nya or Nasdaq, a company...

Japan reports CPI, alongside retail sales, unemployment and overall household spending early tomorrow in Tokyo. Despite the extremely aggressive expansionary monetary policy, the BOJ has not managed...

This morning, there are rumblings of a new conflict in the Middle East, with Saudi forces backed by the United States undertaking military maneuvers against Yemen. One of the first impacts was...

New filings for unemployment declined last week, the Labor Department reports,delivering a bullish surprise relative to expectations for a slight rise. The news offers another upbeat clue for thinking...

Euro-area M3 money supply increased 4.0% y/y in February after rising 3.7% y/y in January (revised down from 4.1% y/y). This is the highest rate of increase since April 2009. Growth in M1 money...

Forex News and Events The FX trading follows a typical risk-off trend amid Saudi Arabia’s air strikes in Yemen. The tensions in the Middle East lead to a broad sell-off in equity markets,...

European markets are trading lower on the back of the sharp sell off which we experienced in the US last night. Investors are finding it difficult to assess the health of the U.S. economy given that...

Yemen escalationA surprise series of attacks overnight by a Saudi Arabian-led coalition against the rebel Houthi movement in neighbouring Yemen sparked an immediate switch to risk-off in markets...

Tiffany & Co (NYSE:TIF) shares dropped nearly 4% on Friday.Shares closed at $82.93, or $3.44 lower than the previous day. The stock is now down more than 22.3% this year. That puts it just above...

Overnight, escalating geopolitical risks in Yemen pushed antipodeans lower while supporting JPY, CAD and NOK (the latter two moving in tandem with oil). The conflict in Yemen has been simmering for a...

This week’s initial peek at the March economic profile for the US via Markit’s survey data for manufacturing delivered upbeat news, which takes some of the edge off for expecting trouble....

British retail sales rose more strongly than expected in February, helped by last year’s recovery in the housing market which boosted furniture purchases and by growth in sales in all other...