Market Overview

No question about it, March was painful, very painful, for stocks.  And going into April the market continues to remain vulnerable and volatile.Just look at the last three days: the S&P 500...

My days increasingly begin with the phrase “where do I start?” Jumping in: it is clear that the dislocation of pricing across forex, oil and precious metals markets overnight, is pointing...

That Didn’t Last LongEnormous stimulus packages from the UK and US governments managed just a single day bounce in equity markets, with those gains having already been wiped out in Europe. The...

That call appears to be finally heeded by governments around the world. Globally, from New Zealand to Spain, impressively large fiscal packages are being rolled out to mitigate the effects of the...

Central Banks around the world appear to be about to deploy more large caliber monetary weaponry than an NRA convention. Both the Federal Reserve and Reserve Bank of New Zealand have enacted emergency...

Unless you were living on Mars—and in these days of connectivity that’s no excuse—you could not have missed the carnage that swept across financial markets overnight, driven by...

The Federal Reserve pricked the bubble of a nascent equity recovery overnight, with the FOMC leaving both rates and its forward guidance unchanged. A passing mention that it was monitoring...

Wall Street’s New Year’s resolution to eat a more plant-based diet paid dividends yesterday (sic), with investors gleefully consuming Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) latest results, sending its...

The rotation into haven positioning, seen in the holiday-thinned Asian markets yesterday, gathered momentum overnight. Fears about the global impact on economic growth, due to the Wuhan virus...

The European Central Bank (ECB) left monetary policy unchanged last week even as its president, Christine Lagarde, launched the first strategic review of the central bank's targets and tools in 16...

The sense of serious concern about the economic effects of the Wuhan virus—evident on Wall Street last Friday—has turned into something approaching panic in Asia this morning. China has...

The United States reported its first case of the Wuhan coronavirus overnight, an America First development that neither President Trump, nor U.S. financial markets wanted. With Asia on the back foot...

U.S. markets are closed today for Martin Luther King Day, and this will likely take the edge off activity in Asian markets as the week starts. That didn’t stop Wall Street setting another set of...

Markets in Asia have entered a holding pattern ahead of an expected signing by the U.S. and China of their Phase-1 trade pact later today. The morning has not been without drama, however. The U.S....