Asia Morning: Stopping The Rot
The air above the world's financial markets smelled of cordite and rang loud with the sound of artil...
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 coronavir...
Trump Topples Markets: Stops Travel From Europe
President Trump has just announced a suspension of all travel from Europe for 30 days except for the...
Asia Emerges from The Rubble
After the strong earthquakes that shook financial markets yesterday, Asia appears to be emerging fro...
Asia’s Morning: All Is Well With The World It Seems
Despite the spectre of coronavirus lurking over the world's economy, all appears well with the world...
Asia Morning: Coordinated Hopes Lift Markets
Equity markets posted outsized gains overnight, on what was a very volatile day, as the tail-chasing...
Asia Morning: South Korea Keeps Its Nerve
Against the grain of public opinion - including the author's - the Bank of Korea held rates steady a...
A pause for breath?
In what has become a familiar pattern over the past few days, trading in Wall Street indices h...
Gold at 7-year high on virus fears
Gold spiked higher this morning with safe haven demand intensifying as the global spread of Co...
Asia Session: Asia Discards The Apples
The fallout from Apple Inc’s revenue warnings weighed on markets overnight as the US returned to w...
Markets quiet on US holiday
Today’s Asian morning session was a quiet, timid affair, with investors unwilling to partici...
Asia Midday: Not So Quickly Everybody
The legions of Optimism-20 virologists and epidemiologists were out in force overnight on Wall Stree...
Risk off as virus trumps payrolls
Despite the stellar US jobs report on Friday, markets are trading with a risk-off approach sub...
European Open: How is Europe growth looking?
European growth forecasts on tap The European Commission is scheduled to release its economic g...
The Week Ahead – Virus Saga Continues, Iowa Caucuses are here, RBA to deliver dovish hold, and US NFP to see slight rebound
The primary driver for financial markets remains the coronavirus and its potential impact on the glo...
US Open – Coronavirus ruins Lunar New Year, Intel adds fuel to tech rally, EZ PMIs stabilize, BOE cut odds ease, Tech Earnings good so far, Oil and Gold slide
The coronavirus outbreak is intensifying, and Beijing is scrambling. Outrage is growing as local o...
Asia Midday: Coronavirus Steals The Headlines
Coronavirus continues to steal the world's headlines, with Chinese authorities quarantining addition...
EUR/USD – Lifted By ZEW Surveys
OANDA Senior Market Analyst Craig Erlam discusses the rally in EURUSD on the back of some very encou...
Hong Kong shares slide after weekend violence
Index snaps a two-day streak In an otherwise rather dull Asian morning session today, the bigge...
The Week Ahead – BOJ, BOC, and ECB to keep rates on hold as markets focus on global PMI readings and earnings
The debates on how much of an impact the Phase One trade deal will have on the global outlook will c...