Markets absorbed what seems like four years’ worth of drama with a collective shrug this week between the highly anticipated Comey congressional testimony and the UK snap election turnabout. Comey offered no material new information and o [...]

U.S. equity markets finished this holiday shortened week at new all-time highs with everything outside of the energy patch participating. Meanwhile, yields moved decidedly lower on the back of an unexpectedly weak May jobs report. The com [...]

U.S. stocks turned in a strong week, with the S&P 500 breaking the 2,400 mark and notching a new record heading into the long Memorial Day weekend. Encouraging fundamentals from overseas markets and persistent momentum from the U.S. t [...]

“There are no friends in Washington, only enemies and accomplices” and Donald Trump is learning this on the job, the hard way, as BCA recently remarked. Global equity markets absorbed another Washington DC jolt last week on news of possib [...]

U.S. stock markets softened on the week except for technology and energy stocks, the latter boosted by a rebound in oil and natural gas prices. U.S. markets may have been unnerved by another, ‘did that really just happen’ moment in Washin [...]

U.S. equity markets posted modest gains in a week driven by technology and financial stocks and an appetite for risk. Interest rates across the yield curve shifted higher in response to moderately encouraging economic data, corporate earn [...]

Global equity markets rallied last week on what the market deemed favorable results in the first round of the French Presidential election on April 23rd. As the polls predicted, Macron #1 and Le Pen #2, should translate to a higher likeli [...]