Overseas markets, several of which have returned to trading from the Easter holiday weekend today, are in the green today, led by gains of 0.75%-1.25% for major Asia Pacific markets and gains of 0.3% for the FTSE and the Dax.
The broad-based decline in risk markets that accelerated on Friday following the higher-than-expected US consumer price report, which indicated that central bank tightening to date has done nothing to reel in inflation, putting pressure on them to do more, has
Building on overseas rallies overnight and this morning that included gains of 2.6% for the Nikkei and the Hang Seng, 1.7% for the FTSE and 1.5% for the Dax, US index futures are up this morning including gains of 1.0%
The market selloff appears to be taking on a life of its own this week. With US consumer price inflation still running above 8.0% over year and US producer price numbers announced this morning still running hot (11.0% vs street
Cryptocurrencies have been soaring overnight on media reports that President Biden and the US Treasury Department intend to formally announce today that they are preparing to start building a framework for potentially regulating and/or operating cryptocurrencies in the US, which
Two events out of China have combined to rattle investors overnight. First, Thursday passed without any word from Evergrande over when or whether it plans to make an interest payment on USD denominated bonds (which are widely believed to be
Cryptocurrencies have gone into free fall overnight with Bitcoin diving 10.2% and falling below $40,000 for the first time since February, while Ethereum has plunged 19.1% after China banned its financial services companies (particularly banks, brokerages and payment providers) from
Yesterday’s afternoon market selloff in the US, which was sparked by reports that US President Biden is planning to raise income and capital gains taxes for top earning Americans in conjunction with the human infrastructure program he is planning to
US index futures are in the green again this morning. S&P futures are up 0.1% building on yesterday’s record close, NASDAQ futures are up 0.3% building on yesterday’s 1.0% gain and Dow futures are flat. In Europe the FTSE is