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Introduction In the past few weeks, the constant growing uncertainty around COVID-19 has rattle investors’ confidence and led to a global panic with massive repercussions on markets. World equities are now down over 30 percent since their February peak, and global stock and bond mar...

Overview: While the markets are not as disorderly as they have been, the tone is fragile, and the animal spirits have been crushed. Australian stocks fell more than 10% last week and dropped another 9.7% yesterday before rebounding by almost 6% today to be one of the few Asia-Pacific equity ...

The epicenter of the tremendous financial earthquake in 2008 and 2009 was in the US. There are many critics of the actions of the US (government and central bank), but it responded relatively early and relatively aggressively. The net result was FIFO as in first in, first out. It was that ...

By Ansh Chaudhary The ETF Deathwatch decreased in size in February. Four exchange-traded products ("ETPs") were added to the list, and 35 funds were removed. Twelve of those funds were removed due to increased health and 23 were due to asset managers closing their funds. The major U.S. equ...

Overview: The warning by the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention that Americans should prepare for an outbreak of Covid-19 sent the S&P 500 tumbling to an 11-week low and the 10-year Treasury yield to a record low near 1.30%. The volatility of the S&P ((VIX)) jumped to its h...

An exogenous shock disrupts relationships and patterns. It may be a useful reminder the correlation does not mean 100% co-movement. The strongest currency in the world last week was the Swiss franc, a safe-haven that rose by almost 0.5%. The weakest major currency, and third weakest overall,...

The dollar is the king of currencies. As the world's reserve currency, the US greenback is the foreign exchange instrument that central banks around the world hold as part of their reserves. At the same time, the dollar is the benchmark pricing mechanism for most commodities. Raw materials are...

The dollar's performance last week is best understood as the fulcrum of the seesaw. The major currencies that are perceived to be levered or growth and/or risk rose. These are the dollar-bloc and the Scandis. The Swedish krona sold off before the weekend, perhaps as the market anticipates a ...

Overview Investors appear to be increasingly looking past the latest coronavirus from China as new afflictions slow. Despite the soggy close of US equities yesterday, Asia-Pacific bourses are nearly all higher, led by more than 1% gains in Singapore and Thailand. The Dow Jones Stoxx 600 is a...

Overview The global capital markets have begun the new week on a cautious tone as investors seek to assess the latest news on the new coronavirus. Nearly all the markets in Asia fell but China. European bourses are lower as well, with the Dow Jones Stoxx 600 off about 0.3%. US shares are sof...