The Weekly Bottom Line: Markets Plunge, Policymakers Triage
U.S. Highlights Wild gyrations in financial markets continued this week, with equity indexes seeing their biggest one-day drops in several decades. Policy announcements were the other theme of the week. In Europe, the Bank of England and European Central Bank...
Forward Guidance: Watching for More Policy Response to Coronavirus
Next week (and many to come) will be dominated by coronavirus news. Beyond the ongoing spread of the virus and containment efforts, it’s the response from fiscal and monetary authorities that we (and nervous markets) will remain focused on. This...
Week Ahead – Fed and BOJ to Add More to the Punchbowl, Virus Disruption, and a Fourth Week of Heightened Volatility
A fourth week of heightened volatility will see financial markets continue to focus on the coronavirus spread across Europe and the US. The economic impact of the virus is deepening, and expectations are high for the week ahead to see...
Weekly Recap/Week Ahead Caution: Volatility Ahead
This past week began with a double whammy of lower oil prices and lower stock prices. As the week continued, things just got worse. The coronavirus and it’s effects on daily life and the economy were the main focus, as...
The World Has Changed
The coronavirus upends the global growth picture Since our last update in December, the outlook for the global economy has been severely impacted by the spread of COVID-19 amplified by the sharp decline in oil prices that will magnify the...
King Dollar Reclaims Throne, Stocks Disintegrate Despite Fed Bazooka
Wall Street plunges 10% as market panic intensifies, powerful Fed intervention doesn’t help Dollar outperforms amid flight to safety, gold savaged by margin calls ECB doesn’t cut rates, euro pops higher but then crumbles as Lagarde says she’s not Draghi...
Emotional Selling, Recession to Hit US, ECB, Oil Crash Resumes, Gold and Bitcoin Victim of Scramble for Cash
Global market carnage continues as Wall Street struggles to grasp how long the global pandemic will disrupt travel, trade and daily life. It is important to understand that the selloff started last night after President Trump’s speech. US stocks traded...
ECB Fires its Coronavirus Bullet, Market Unimpressed
After a series of mostly ineffectual interventions from policymakers in the US, UK, Australia, and elsewhere, the European Central Bank stepped into the batter’s box this morning. Just yesterday, newly-anointed ECB President Christine Lagarde announced that without coordinated action, Europe...
Growing Pandemic Fears Hit Crude Oil But Bulks Are More Robust
Focus shifts from a Chinese epidemic to a global pandemic As February ended the focus for the COVID-19 outbreak shifted from China to the rest of the world. In particular markets shifted attention to the rapidly expanding outbreak in Italy...
Will the Fragmented ECB Disappoint Markets?
The European Central Bank (ECB) will announce its policy decision at 12:45 GMT on Thursday and even though markets have fully priced in a 10 basis-points rate cut, economists disagree. Indeed, with the central bank nearly out of ammunition and...
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