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Since last November’s vaccine news, financial markets have been "hanging ten" on a swell of cyclical, value and small-cap stocks, and rising Treasury yields. Crosswinds started to grow in the second quarter, however, as economic and inflation data ran hot: rising yields stalled...
On July 5, Deputy Prime Minister Aso explicitly went further than Washington and pledged Japan would come to the aid of Taiwan if it were invaded by China. A week later, Japan's annual security review was published, noting for the first time that stability around Taiwan was a signific...
Vietnam and the US agreed to avoid trade sanctions, though the heavy lifting had already been done. As widely expected, China left its Loan Prime Rate steady at 3.85% for the one-year and 4.65% for the five-year. The dollar fell to two-month lows against the yen yesterday, slightl...
Concerns that the Delta mutation will slow or even reverse the recovery efforts appear to be sapping risk-taking appetites. The surge of the Delta virus and reports of a "Delta plus" mutation gaining ground is emerging as a powerful economic and political factor. The dollar rides ...
Strong inflation prints this week have not prevented the long-term US interest rates from tumbling. A possible deal in OPEC saw a sharp drop in crude oil prices, and there is some follow-through selling today. The pullback in US yields appears to be the main driver of the Japanese...
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand jumped to the front of the queue of central banks adjusting monetary policy by announcing the end of its long-term asset purchases. The US sanctions on China's largest chipmaker and the largest chip buyer have added another dimension to what appears to ...
New record highs in the US S&P 500 and NASDAQ coupled with China allowing Tencent to acquire a search engine helped lift Asia Pacific equities. Gold is holding above $1800 for the first session since June 16. The US reports June CPI figures today. It could be the first slippag...
The dollar is drifting a little higher against most major currencies, with the Scandis and dollar-bloc currencies the heaviest. The US Department of Agriculture world supply and demand report is due out later today. China has tightened the rules on foreign listings for companies w...
Last month, the fear was excessively high inflation but in the first week of July growth fears have come to the fore. A weaker than expected non-manufacturing PMI in the US has triggered a sharp decline in global government bond yields. The UK’s vaccination program may have...
China's consumer prices rose 1.1% in June, slightly less than expected, and follows a 1.3% year-over-year rise in May. The UK's May GDP rose by 0.8%, about half of what the median forecast in Bloomberg's survey anticipated, and adding insult to injury, April's growth was trimmed to 2....
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On Monday, April 22nd, the U.S. stock markets closed higher, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq rebounding after six days of losses. The markets recov...
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