Following the bounce in markets that we saw on Wednesday, broader markets closed down yesterday (Thursday 16 July 2020). This pull back was partly driven by […]

The positive sentiment in global equity markets continued to build yesterday after the Philadelphia Fed President, Patrick Harker, said the Fed’s 2% inflation target should be […]

This week’s equity market moves provide a perfect illustration of the tug-of-war that has dominated recently. Yesterday evening, US equity markets rebounded strongly from Monday’s late […]

After an initial positive start to the week, US equity markets gave up all its gains in the last hour of trading (8-9pm UK time):  having […]

Yesterday’s (Thursday 9 July 2020) important data release was the weekly US jobless claims:  both the initial and continuing claims not only continued to decline (to […]

In the UK this morning, the FTSE-100 has drifted lower, ahead of this afternoon’s important weekly US jobless claims data.  As we write, the FTSE-100 is […]

There isn’t any particular negative news to justify yesterday’s (7 July 2020) and today’s global equity market weakness, other than news that Brazil’s President, Jair Bolsonaro, […]

Chinese equity markets continue to steal the show:  having ended yesterday (Monday 6 July 2020) with an impressive gain of 5.67%, the CSI 300 index rose […]

It has been a very busy 24 hours for economic data, the biggest of which was the US non-farm payroll data for June. In short, the […]

The tug of war between an economic recovery versus a rise in coronavirus cases and geopolitical tensions continues to yo-yo equity markets. However, this morning the […]