Markets Wall Street until mid week suffered a 5 day losing streak, then on Thur it staged a rebound led by tech and energy shares. Equities also jumped after US President Donald Trump stated that... Read MoreRead More
Markets On Wall Street the positive reaction to the midterm elections lifted up equity prices. However, after the FOMC meeting on Wed investors’ mood turned sour as the central bank reminded that monetary tightening will... Read MoreRead More
Markets The last two days in Oct saw a rebound of US equity prices ending a dreadful month on a positive note. The S&P 500 in Oct relinquished most of its gains in 2018, losing... Read MoreRead More
Markets Global stock markets took another dive last week: the S&P 500 lost almost 4% amid lackluster Q3 corporate earnings reports, especially for industrials, and tumbling new home sales, which point to weaker growth. Contagion... Read MoreRead More
Markets At the beginning of last week a negative mood lingered in global equity markets but then the positive earning results in the US gave a boost to Wall Street (US stocks jumped the most... Read MoreRead More
Markets Last week global equity markets were hit by a selloff which was particularly intense in the tech sector (where careless or reckless investors have inflated a bubble for years). US equities on Wed had... Read MoreRead More
Markets Last week Canada’s decision to sign up to the USMCA, the revamped NAFTA deal with the US and Mexico initially propped up US stock markets and put the S&P 500 within striking distance of... Read MoreRead More
Markets Concerns over trade tensions resurfaced at the beginning of last week due to China’s retaliatory tariffs, and lingered even after the Fed announced its largely expected rate hike; ultimately Wall Street ended on a... Read MoreRead More
Markets Last week equity markets shrugged off the concerns about the trade wars, which has come to be perceived as a sort of soap opera. Wall Street saw a rebound of tech stocks and the... Read MoreRead More
Markets The week started on a weak note on Wall Street, but then broadly positive US macro data and news of a trip by US Treasury Secretary Mnuchin to China for trade policy negotiations lifted... Read MoreRead More
