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Weekly Market Review: The Fed signals a major change in approach at its January meeting By Kristina Hooper, Chief Global Market Strategist on Feb 4, 2019, in Market & Economic The biggest American football game of the year was played last night, and for the first three ...

Overview: The US dollar is a little firmer against most of the major currencies. Despite some disappointing data (retail sales, trade, PMI), the Australian dollar has recovered from initial losses below $0.7200 on the back of the central bank's reluctance to adopt an easing bias. A small upw...

Overview: The Lunar New Year celebration made for a quiet Asian session while a light diary in Europe saw subdued turnover. Equity markets are narrowly mixed. Among the three large markets open in Asia Pacific, Australia and Japanese equities rose while India slipped. European bourses are li...

By Ben Lofthouse, John Bennett and John Pattullo Co-Head of Strategic Fixed Income John Pattullo, Director of European Equities John Bennett and Head of Global Equity Income Ben Lofthouse discuss lessons learned from 2018 and what they expect from the coming year in our latest podcast. In...

The information set investors have is unlikely to substantively change in the coming days. The important macro points are known. The first part of February may be about digesting and making sense of that information rather than an incremental increase. Investors had been concerned about what...

Growth in the eurozone is decreasing. Consequently, the European Central Bank, under the leadership of its president, Mario Draghi, which just ended its multi-year effort at quantitative easing, is concerned about moving to a more restrictive stance. Mr. Draghi "has signaled that the bank ...

Overview: The Fed's dovish tone and earnings news are the main drivers of the capital markets today, helping lift stocks, bonds, and currencies. Large equity markets in Asia, including Japan, Hong Kong, China's CSI 300, India, and Indonesia, all rose more than 1%, putting the MSCI Asia Pacif...

It was a tense exchange. When even politicians can sense that there's trouble brewing, there really is trouble brewing. Typically the last to figure these things out, if parliamentarians are up in arms it already isn't good, to put it mildly. Well, not quite the last to know, there are always ...

Recently, I wrote an article describing my views that Brexit is growing increasingly likely, rather than unlikely, by simple virtue of the fact that it is already current law, and attempts to repeal it have failed. Contributor Peter Cooper responded with an emphatic assertion that whatev...

Wednesday, January 30: Five things the markets are talking about The next U.S dollar move will depend on a plethora of factors from this week - investors are looking ahead to today's monetary policy announcement by the Fed (2:00 pm EDT), at which it is expected to leave interest rates unchan...