Equity markets got a touch of the coronavirus on Friday last week, dragging equity markets into the red for the week. As expected, global health concerns of this nature sparked a rally in safe haven assets including U.S. treasuries, gold, [...]

Several moving parts behaved nicely last week, providing a lift to equity markets globally. Signing of the Phase 1 trade deal, senate approval of the USMCA, encouraging economic reports, and a good start to Q4 earnings season all fell on [...]

Risk markets began the week with some carryover anxiety following the U.S.-Iran conflict but resolved in short order, providing market buoyancy enough to finish the week in positive territory, at or near record highs. Rates and the USD ed [...]

New Year’s Day split the last week of 2019 directly in half with equity markets giving back a mid-week rally to finish slightly in the red after Friday’s action.  Stocks were soft while gold, oil, yen, and U.S. treasuries moved higher in [...]

A Santa rally materialized for U.S. equity markets in what was the last full week of the calendar year and also the last full week of the decade.  The S&P 500 closed higher for a fifth consecutive week and at a record high, as the pic [...]

A quiet pre-holiday week of trading netted nice gains across global equity markets leaving the S&P 500 at a new all-time high print.  Commodities, rates, and the USD moved higher across the board as well. Renewed optimism for stabiliz [...]

Equity and commodity markets posted only modest gains last week despite what seems to have been a newsworthy week on several political fronts.  Indications of a U.S.-Sino trade deal, a landslide victory for proBrexit conservative party in [...]