Market Overview

The financial markets are lacking clear direction for the moment. DJIA hit new record high at 20155.35 overnight but pared back much gain to close at 20090.29, up only 0.19%. Treasury yields dropped...

China’s Foreign Exchange Agency reported a $12 billion drawdown in that country’s foreign “reserves” holdings during January 2017. That was considerably less than the past...

There were no surprises in the updated JOLTS estimates for December 2016, just more of the same sideways. The level of Job Openings was 5.501 million (SA), practically unchanged from November’s...

Highlight 1. The US Dollar Index is running out of steam and falling below multi-year support levels, despite rising yields and rosy US economic forecasts;2. 2-year and 10-year US Treasury yields have...

A right-wing political win in France may drive down Germany's 10-year yield A Frexit could spell the beginning of the end for the EU and the euro Brazil’s stock market anticipates an end to the...

Abzena (LON:ABZA) has recently achieved a significant licensing deal for its proprietary site-specific ThioBridge antibody drug conjugate (ADC) linker technology with a San Diego-based...

Trump blames Mexico, China, and even Germany for taking US jobs and for US trade imbalances.His message resonated with voters. People can believe whatever “fake news” they want, but...

The Atlanta Fed GDPNow Forecast declined from 3.4% on February 1 to 2.7% on February 7.Roughly 0.3 percentage points of the decline was due to a slowdown in auto sales. The rest was split between the...

With the first quarter of 2017 already underway, the global investment industry is buzzing about the hottest trends of interest to savvy investors. The recent election and widespread global economic...

Dollar jump diverts election jittersA strong open on Wall Street saw the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit a fresh record high. So far any moments of doubt over Trump’s policies have been a...

US equity markets are poised to open slightly higher on Tuesday but traders are maintaining some caution given the increasing political risk environment in both the US and Europe.Investors got very...

In the next few years, the US economy is expected to grow faster than any developed country in the world. The IMF World Economic Outlook predicted that US growth will tip over 2% in 2017. This week,...

The financial crisis of 2008 devastated portfolios far and wide and brought the global economy to the brink of collapse. It was a disaster, but there was at least one positive outcome from the...

Chinese FX reserves fell to a six-year low in January and broke below USD3trn to USD2998.2. Adjusted for currency moves we estimate it was a decline of around USD36bn - a similar pace of decline as in...