Markets Dancing To The Presidential Trumpet
The last 36 hours left me feeling like the poor guy in a Western movie, jumping up and down in a circle of cowboys who are shooting at his feet. That perverse cowboy jig is a similar one the world’s...
Risk Off/Risk On – Markets pare Losses from Asian Open
Risk off was the theme to start the day as stocks gapped lower on the open, continuing Friday’s selloff. However, as Trump and China traded tweets during the European session, markets bounced and are now trading higher at the US...
US Stock Markets Crashed And Eventually Lost Up To 3%
Markets Friday’s trading session was long earmarked to be all about Fed Chair Powell’s key note address at the Jackson Hole symposium. Eventually, it was again US President Trump who made all the headlines. The Chinese Ministry of Finance started...
Weekly Economic and Financial Commentary: Trade Tensions Escalate; PMIs Send Mixed Messages
U.S. Review Powell Promises to “Act as Appropriate” Fed Chair Powell emphasized that the FOMC would “act as appropriate” in the face of slower global growth and an ongoing trade war, which escalated further as China announced plans to impose...
The Weekly Bottom Line: More Fed Cuts Ahead As Trade Risks Loom
U.S. Highlights This week may have been short on economic data, but the fireworks were lit on Friday as the President lashed out against China’s decision to impose tariffs on $75 billion of U.S. imports, sending stock markets into a...
China Steals Fed’s Thunder With New Round of Tariffs
The US dollar is lower across the board against major pairs at the end of a volatile Friday. The speech by Fed chair Jerome Powell at Jackson Hole was the main event in the radar before China announced it was...
Forward Guidance: Trade Developments Overshadowing Economic Data… Again…
A week of broadly as-expected economic data developments was sideswiped, again, by a late-week Twitter tirade from US President Trump. The latest was a response to China announcing what should have been widely expected tariff hikes on US imports in...
Can Monetary and Fiscal Stimulus Save the Global Economy from Trump’s Trade War?
Stock markets around the world have rebounded this week as talk of stimulus in China and Germany has given rise to hopes that pre-emptive action by policymakers can avert a global economic downturn triggered by President Trump’s protectionist policies. But...
Trump Steals Powell’s Thunder after Jackson Hole
Fed Chairman delivered his much anticipate speech at the Jackson Hole Symposium earlier this morning. Here is the key comment which summaries his speech: “… we will act as appropriate to sustain the expansion, with a strong labor market and...
RBA: 50bps in Cuts Look Assured But Global Factors May Require More Stimulus
The minutes of the Reserve Bank Board meeting for August provided one significant surprise. In the Governor’s decision statement following the meeting on August 6, the conclusion included “the Board would continue to monitor developments in the labour market closely...
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