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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 ...
Overview The sharp sell-off in US equities and yields yesterday is spurring a mini-meltdown globally today. Many of the Asia-Pacific markets, including Japan, Australia, Taiwan, and India, saw more than 2% drops, while most others fell more than 1%. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index snapped the fo...
O verview: A new phase of the Covid-19 is at hand. Yesterday was the first time that the number of new cases in the world surpassed the number of new cases China acknowledged. This confirms what we have known, namely that the battle for containing it in China has been lost. However, it wasn...
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...
The CHF/JPY currency pair, which expresses the value of the Swiss franc in terms of the Japanese yen, can be considered a risk-neutral currency pair by virtue of the fact that both the Swiss franc and the Japanese yen are conventionally viewed as safe-haven currencies. Safe-haven currencies ...
The US dollar and Swiss franc are two of the leading and most respected foreign exchange instruments in the world. The dollar is the leading reserve currency because of the size of the US GDP and the long history of political and economic stability in the United States. The dollar is the leadi...
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 coronavirus spreading across Asia and the world is very likely to hammer Japan and the yen. Some people consider the Japanese yen a "safe-haven" currency where they can safely store their wealth in times of financial turmoil. This flies in the face of reason because Japan is destined to ev...
Overview The increase of COVID-19 cases in South Korea and Japan, coupled with China's changing reverting back to its previous methodology of calculation, dropping clinically diagnosed cases, has again weakened risk appetites and sent the dollar broadly higher. Fears of a Japanese recession ...
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Citigroup Global Markets Holdings Inc. (“CGMHI”) announced today that it will accelerate at its option, and in full, the ten series of exchange-traded notes listed in the table below (the “ETNs”). Holders of the ETNs will receive a cash payment per ETN in...