Market Overview

Stocks rallied on slim hopes of relaxed lockdowns, economic recovery Yields reverse back to all-time lows First Chinese economic contraction in decades With markets betting on a rebounding economy as...

New U.S. bull begins on QE relief despite staggering job loss The U.S. is now the official global COVID-19 hotspot Investors brace for an earnings season with no clue what to expect As another...

Stocks expected to keep swinging violently as investors try to come to grips with how much of the slowing economy is priced in Riyadh and Moscow at diplomatic stalemate, each blaming the other for...

No question about it, March was painful, very painful, for stocks.  And going into April the market continues to remain vulnerable and volatile.Just look at the last three days: the S&P 500...

Friday's stock pull-back signals strong investor uncertainty Traditional havens such as yields, yen, gold rise Economic data will begin pouring in showing coronavirus devastation, including...

Economic data expected this week to reflect virus-related slowdowns S&P 500 down 30% in just five weeks; will government easing slow the negative spiral? EU warns of recession similar to 2009...or...

Unless you were living on Mars—and in these days of connectivity that’s no excuse—you could not have missed the carnage that swept across financial markets overnight, driven by...

Risk-off returns to markets with almost all global indices finishing the week in the redGold extends its multi-year rallyVirus spread escalates outside of ChinaInvestors appeared to be taking the...

Right now, equity investor sentiment is singularly focused on the deadly coronavirus as markets remain concerned about the ability of global companies to function normally if the virus continues to...

The Federal Reserve pricked the bubble of a nascent equity recovery overnight, with the FOMC leaving both rates and its forward guidance unchanged. A passing mention that it was monitoring...

Wall Street’s New Year’s resolution to eat a more plant-based diet paid dividends yesterday (sic), with investors gleefully consuming Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) latest results, sending its...

The Fed's policymaking, Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) will undergo a significant shift at its January meeting this week, as four new regional chiefs rotate into voting positions.Also on the...

The rotation into haven positioning, seen in the holiday-thinned Asian markets yesterday, gathered momentum overnight. Fears about the global impact on economic growth, due to the Wuhan virus...

The European Central Bank (ECB) left monetary policy unchanged last week even as its president, Christine Lagarde, launched the first strategic review of the central bank's targets and tools in 16...