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The Canadian dollar has fallen in recent times, alongside oil prices. The currency of Canada is correlated positively with oil prices, by virtue of Canada's export exposures to oil-related products. The chart below indicates that mineral products (i.e., including crude petroleum and refined pe...
Overview The bullish enthusiasm that carried the S&P 500 to new closing highs yesterday is helping Asia-Pacific and European shares today. The MSCI Asia-Pacific Index rose for the third session, with Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Korea jumping two percent. Europe's Dow Jones Stoxx 600 gapped to ...
Overview: The S&P 500 gapped higher and surged 1.5% yesterday, the most since in six months, helping set the stage for a continued recovery in global equities, and stoked risk appetites more broadly. An experimental antiviral treatment is to begin clinical testing. All of the markets in ...
Overview The combination of the rally in US shares yesterday and the continued efforts of China to inject liquidity helped lift sentiment today. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index snapped an eight-day slide, and many markets jumped more than 1%. Led by energy and materials, Europe's Dow Jones Stoxx...
Last Friday, at the stroke of midnight, the first month of 2020 ended. At the same time, the United Kingdom's membership in the European Union faded into the history books. The UK became a member of the EU but always kept one foot outside of the continent as more than the English Channel separ...
The global capital markets were roiled in recent weeks by the new virus that jumped species in China. It is contagious during the incubation periods and appears similar though more aggressive than SARS in 2003-2004. And China is larger and significantly more integrated into the global politica...
Just as a photon is both a particle and a wave, the dollar is both fulcrum of the foreign exchange market and a currency itself. Both features were on display last week. The dollar was firm against most of the world's currencies, as the depth and breadth of the US debt market drew savings in...
The EUR/CAD currency pair, which expresses the value of the euro in terms of Canadian dollars, captures the currency market's relative expectations of the eurozone versus Canada. Expectations concern these economic regions' inflation rates, interest rates and (trade) current accounts, among va...
Overview The ongoing concerns about the geometric progression of the new coronavirus continues to swamp other considerations for investors. Risk continues to be unwound as the World Health Organization meets to decide if this is indeed a global health emergency. Several large equity markets ...
By Chris Turner, Global Head of Strategy and Head of EMEA and LATAM Research & ING team Parallels to SARS? Ever since 7 January, when Chinese authorities confirmed that they had identified a new virus, global financial markets have increasingly taken notice of the coronavirus. ...