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Overview: Investors have remained fairly calm in the face of flash April PMI crashes and an increase of virus cases in several European countries. Most equity markets in the Asia Pacific region rose, with the notable exceptions of China and Australia. The Nikkei rose for the first time this ...

Overview: Risk-appetites appear to have stabilized for the moment. Most equity markets are higher. Japan and Malaysia were exceptions, but the MSCI Asia Pacific Index rose for the first time this week. In Europe, the Dow Jones Stoxx 600 is recouping about a third of yesterday's loss. The S&a...

Overview: European financial centers remain closed for the extended holiday, helping to make for a quiet start to the week. The big economic news over the weekend was the confirmation of the OPEC+ deal. The price of crude opened higher in Asia, but ahead of the US open, May WTI is little cha...

Official actions have succeeded in stabilizing the capital markets, even as much of the world's economy remains locked down, and the hardships faced by households and businesses intensify. In the middle part of last month, the markets were as dysfunctional as they have ever been. Volatility ...

Overview: Reports suggesting that some of the hot spots for the virus contagion appear to be leveling off, and this is helping underpin risk appetites today. The curve seems to be flattening in Italy, Spain, and France. In the US, there are some early signs of leveling off in NY, and now, th...

By Philip Lawlor, managing director, Global Markets Research US investors have been licking their wounds from their overseas returns as the weakness in non-US currencies have significantly affected returns. The chart below, which compares global equity returns since the peak in global equi...

Overview: Speculation that the US Senate would pass the large stimulus bill worth around 10% of US GDP is thought to have fueled a bounce in equities in recent days. The bill was approved and will now go to the House, where a vote is expected tomorrow. If the rumor was bought, the fact has b...

The international currency market is a bit of a mirage. Like an oasis in the desert, the US dollar has been the king of the asset class. A flight to quality in a risk-off environment has caused the value of the greenback to rise against other foreign exchange instruments. As the world battles ...

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...

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 ...