Analysis-Investors temper pessimism on China, but bullish tilt remains distant prospect
By Summer Zhen and Rae Wee HONG KONG/SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Investor negativity on China is showing signs of shifting as money managers stop or slow cuts to their exposure, even if they…
Analysis-Investors look to AI-darling Nvidia’s earnings as US stocks rally wobbles
By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK (Reuters) – Bullish investors are hoping Wednesday’s earnings report from chip heavyweight Nvidia can rejuvenate a U.S. stocks rally that has stumbled in recent weeks. Nvidia shares…
Analysis-Investors manoeuvre, warily, for long-shot BOJ policy move
By Kevin Buckland TOKYO (Reuters) – From a rising yen to debt market derivatives, market signals reveal how investors are going for some cheap but fail-safe options to make money on the…
Analysis-Investors dumping China load up on other emerging markets
By Summer Zhen and Patturaja Murugaboopathy HONG KONG (Reuters) – Global investors are increasingly choosing to bypass China’s markets in favour of other emerging countries that are either gaining from the geopolitical…
Analysis-Investors’ hopes for Turkey’s economic future ride on new cabinet picks
By Karin Strohecker and Libby George LONDON (Reuters) – The top policymaker picks of Turkey’s re-elected president Tayyip Erdogan are taking centre stage as markets try to gauge whether he will change…
Analysis-Investors see trouble ahead after Europe’s stellar first quarter
By Joice Alves LONDON (Reuters) – Big European companies have delivered significantly stronger than expected first-quarter results, defying a challenging economic backdrop that includes surging inflation and rising interest rates. But European…
Analysis-Investors seek value in clobbered U.S. regional bank shares
By David Randall NEW YORK (Reuters) – As U.S. banking contagion worries ebb, some investors are hunting for shares of fundamentally strong regional lenders that were swept up in this month’s epic…
Analysis-Investors stick to bets on early end to ECB hikes as uncertainty grows
By Yoruk Bahceli and Naomi Rovnick AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Investors held tight to bets that banking jitters would rein in the ECB’s ability to jack up borrowing costs in the months ahead,…
Analysis-Investors seek uncorrelated assets on worries volatility will return
By Laura Matthews (Reuters) – Concerns that last year’s wild swings in stocks and bonds will resurface in 2023 are boosting the appeal of investments less dependent on upside in either asset…
Analysis-Investors see Erdogan’s earthquake response as pivotal
By Marc Jones LONDON (Reuters) – The humanitarian disaster of Turkey’s earthquake has caused an outpouring of concern by international investors, but also an acknowledgement that President Tayyip Erdogan’s handling of the…
Analysis-Investors brace for U.S. debt-ceiling fight after House speaker saga
By Lewis Krauskopf and Davide Barbuscia NEW YORK (Reuters) – A tumultuous start for the new U.S. Congress has some investors worried about what could be a prolonged battle over raising the…
Analysis-Investors bet Fed will blink if recession hits despite ‘higher for longer’ mantra
By Davide Barbuscia and David Randall (Reuters) – Some investors believe an expected recession will force the Federal Reserve to loosen monetary policy next year, even as the central bank projects it…
Analysis-Investors on alert for policy error after cheering slower rate hikes
By Yoruk Bahceli (Reuters) – Central banks are starting to slow aggressive rate rises but are far from done even as recession looms, leaving investors alert to risks that prolonged tightening could…
Analysis-Investors left scratching heads as ECB bosses spar on outlook
By Francesco Canepa and Balazs Koranyi FRANKFURT (Reuters) – The European Central Bank’s top economic thinkers are sparring over the outlook for inflation and rates, leaving investors scratching their heads over the…
Analysis-Investors warm to European corporate bonds after a brutal year
By Harry Robertson LONDON (Reuters) – Investors are moving back into the European corporate bond market after one of the most brutal years in history, lured by juicy yields and hopes that…
Analysis-Investors expand footprint in commodity trade finance as banks retreat
By Julia Payne, Pratima Desai and Peter Hobson LONDON (Reuters) – Hedge funds have stepped up financing of trade in commodities such as oil, gas, cocoa and copper as banks hit the…
Analysis-Investors face expensive quest for year-end cash and safe assets
By Yoruk Bahceli (Reuters) – As the most volatile period in years for traders draws to a close, the year-end dash for cash and high-quality assets will likely prove more challenging than…
Analysis-Investors confident in Brazil staying the course after election
By Rodrigo Campos NEW YORK (Reuters) – A leftist former union leader is on track to replace Brazil’s right-wing president and tear up the most important fiscal rule in the world’s 10th…
Analysis-Investors shun risk as Fed pushes higher-for-longer rates
By Davide Barbuscia and Carolina Mandl NEW YORK (Reuters) – Investors are bracing for higher interest rates for longer and hunkering down with defensive portfolios which shun high equities risk, as U.S.…
Analysis-Investors gauge U.S. stocks rebound: ‘suckers’ rally’ or market bottom?
By David Randall NEW YORK – As investors await another jumbo-sized rate increase from the Federal Reserve, they are taking the temperature of a weeks-long U.S. stock market rally that followed a…
Analysis-Investors wary of cheap U.S. bank stocks on recession fears
By Sinéad Carew (Reuters) – Investors are bracing for a fresh slide in banking stocks, with fears of a hit from a potential recession outweighing the lure of relatively cheap valuations and…
Analysis-Investors say Asia a safe place as Fed hikes but premature to jump in
By Rae Wee and Alun John SINGAPORE/HONG KONG – Asia’s emerging economies are better placed than most other regions to weather a bout of turbo-charged U.S. policy tightening, analysts say, but with…
Analysis-Investors shift to Latam amid war in Europe, but risks remain
By Anisha Sircar and Rodrigo Campos NEW YORK – A rate hike cycle that started last year and low valuations had already made Latin America a darling destination for investors in 2022,…
Analysis-Investors eye uncharted waters as quantitative tightening looms in Canada
By Fergal Smith TORONTO – As the Bank of Canada prepares to shrink its bloated balance sheet, investors say the move could enable expected interest rate hikes to have more far-reaching impact…
Analysis-Investors brace for more weakness in U.S. corporate debt
By Davide Barbuscia NEW YORK – Investors are preparing for more downside in U.S. credit markets, as bets that the Federal Reserve will become more aggressive than previously expected threaten to further…
Analysis-Investors bank on real yields to boost dollar in months ahead
By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed NEW YORK – The dollar’s choppy start to the year has not dissuaded some investors from betting the U.S. currency will soon resume its march higher, lifted by…
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