Market Overview

Hong Kong has, not surprisingly, entered a technical recession. We can blame the US-China trade war and the ongoing demonstrations. With no end to the protests, the economy's future remains...

The Federal Reserve Bank held its monetary policy meeting yesterday. As widely expected, the central bank cut the Fed funds rate by a quarter basis point to 1.50% – 1.75%.In its widely watched...

Overview: The equity and bond rally in North America yesterday carried over into today's session. With some notable exceptions, like China, Taiwan, Australia, and Indonesia, most bourses in Asia...

The FOMC committee decided to lower the target range for the federal funds rate to 1-1/2 to 1-3/4 percent.Following the third rate cut in 2019, the Federal Reserve issued this short FOMC...

The FOMC did indeed cut the target Fed Funds rate by 25bps overnight, to a target range of 1.50-1.75%. China though, showed that the global slowdown is still alive and well outside of America, with...

Investors might have a good sense of how November went for the market long before their first helpings of turkey and stuffing.The month kicks off this Friday as investors take in payrolls data for...

As we noted in Tuesday’s FOMC Preview report, the Fed has an unblemished record of meeting market expectations over the last decade, so Wednesday’s decision to cut interest rates by 25bps...

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FOMC A 25bp cut is all but priced in, but what is the messaging?? One thing is for sure, the Fed is not going to deliver a hawkish rate cut with the trade war debate still in the balance. And frankly,...

The Federal Reserve Bank will be holding its monetary policy meeting this Wednesday.The central bank is widely expected to deliver another quarter-point rate cut at this week’s meeting. However,...

Equity markets were seen trading flat, a day after rising to fresh highs.President Trump stated that the US-China trade talks were progressing faster than initially thought. This grew investor...

U.S. futures linger on the cautious side ahead of Fed announcement Peugeot-Fiat merger talks fail to prop up STOXX 600 Asian shares drop on slimming trade hopes Pound climbs as U.K. PM Johnson wins...

Overview: The global capital markets are mostly treading water ahead of the Federal Reserve meeting. Asia Pacific and European equities drifted lower. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index appears to have...

Market Movers Today Today we have a busy schedule ahead of us. The FOMC meeting tonight (at 19:00 CET) is today's highlight, where we expect another 25bp . Also today, the first estimate of GDP growth...