Equity markets and interest rates ended up relatively sideways for the week ending 10/14 despite no shortage of market moving events including the beginning of 3rd quarter earnings season, U.S. election ugliness, Fed insights, currency vo [...]

Last week saw the U.S. equity markets snap a three week winning streak, falling approximately 0.50%, while 10yr U.S. Treasury bond yields surged from 1.59% up to 1.72%.  Gold traded sharply lower (down to its 200 day moving average) as di [...]

Friday’s close marked the end of the week, month, and third quarter. The week ended on a marginally positive note with stock, bond, and commodity markets posting marginal gains. U.S. equity markets rallied on Friday, pushing themselves in [...]

Last week gave us the widely anticipated Fed and Bank of Japan policy meetings, which completes a string of high profile central bank meetings including the ECB 9/8, BOE 9/15, and Fed/BOJ 9/21. The financial market response this week was [...]

Equity markets last week ended largely unchanged but volatility remained slightly higher (VIX 15.4) than the abnormally low levels of the past three months. Last week, markets absorbed a large plate of real time economic data while antici [...]

Global markets experienced a long overdue bout of volatility in a holiday shortened ‘back to work/summer is over’ week as a stark reminder of the strong central bank influence on market sentiment. Thursday-Friday was effectively a one-two [...]

Markets bid farewell to August and hello to September last week with most of the attention focused on Friday’s release of the August payroll report and what, if any, Fed policy implications it may bring. Overall on the week, global equity [...]