Last week delivered a strong conclusion to a very strong month of March which largely offset what was a very tumultuous start to the year. Risk markets were supported last week by Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen’s dovish comments on Tu [...]

Last week produced a mixed bag of economic anecdotes and yet another occurrence of heartbreaking terror attacks, this time in the heart of Europe. Oil and U.S. equities broke their respective five week winning streaks, both losing ground [...]

A dovish tone from the Fed and encouraging economic data helped push risk markets (stocks, high yield bonds, oil) higher last week. U.S. equities pulled themselves into the black for the first time in 2016, oil touched $40, and U.S. Treas [...]

The positive market momentum in place since February 11th continued for a fourth consecutive week as risk assets again posted encouraging gains on the back of positive economic data and central bank support. It was in the areas most punis [...]

Markets continued to rebound off the February 11th low with oil and equities posting a third consecutive weekly gain as optimism seems to have replaced concern with regard to an economic slowdown. Since the S&P 500 was down 10% on the [...]

Equity markets rose for the second consecutive week, supported by positive economic data points, signs of stabilization in oil prices, and likely some short squeeze buying activity emanating from the hedge fund arena. Recent equity market [...]

Equity markets advanced notably in a holiday shortened week both in the U.S. and abroad. U.S. markets notched their largest weekly gain of the year and posted a back to back daily 1% gain for the first time since October 2011. Europe rall [...]