Market Overview

Market BriefAs expected the Federal Reserve left the target range for the federal fund rate unchanged at between 0.25% and 0.50%. However, it appears that the Fed is more cautious when it comes to...

The Federal Reserve kept the target Fed funds at the 0.25%-to-0.50% range in yesterday’s policy announcement. The Treasury market’s reaction was muted, with yields sticking close to the...

Oil’s continued plunge is vying with China for the early financial headlines in 2016.Yet many U.S. investors are missing the most important aspect of oil’s collapse: the dramatic effect...

A sharp decline in stock prices has stunned investors in the first weeks of 2016. This rapid decline follows a prolonged and deep decline in commodity prices.Monetary authorities across the globe are...

The month of January has been a wake-up call for complacent equity investors.From the peaks of last year stock indices in the major markets have fallen 10-20%, give or take. On their own, these falls...

• Fed stays on hold, ‘monitoring global economy’ The Fed remained on hold yesterday, and expressed some concerns about the global financial turbulence. Officials took note of the...

The beat which matters for the market was that the US Federal Reserve Department acknowledged that the picture for the US economy is becoming less glooming. This pushed the US markets higher yesterday...

Last night’s Federal Reserve meeting was noticeable in its lack of news. Some commentators had blown the importance of this month’s policy decision up to almost a similar level as...

US equities reversed early gains and closed lower overnight after Fed statement. DJIA lost -222.77 pts, or -1.38%, to close at 15944.46. Nonetheless, resilience in oil price, which is back above 32,...

There was something for everyone in last night’s FOMC statement with equity markets initially reacting negatively Yellen purports that a March hike remains a possibility on the table despite the...

Americans traditionally look at interest rates as the guide for monetary policy and have done so for half a century. We debate over whether nominal interest rates or real (inflation-adjusted) interest...

Thursday’s a busy day for economic updates on both sides of the Atlantic. Another clue on how the Eurozone is faring at the start to 2016 arrives via today’s economic sentiment numbers for...

The S&P 500 and Dow 30 indices fell more than 1% on the release of the Federal Reserve interest rate decision and statement.External crises, notably the issue of the ongoing Chinese contraction,...

Are we finally going to see the correlation between stocks and oil soften?In overnight trade, it was the same 'ol, same 'ol. Crude and stock index futures moved together in lockstep; we saw the same...