Marketmind: BOJ waxes hawkish but Powell at centre stage
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Rae Wee Signs of a hawkish tilt by the Bank of Japan prodded a bit of life out of that…
Marketmind: Purchasing managers of the world, diverge
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Tom Westbrook A month-long risky-asset rally, in the absence of any further banks collapsing, seems to be running out of…
Marketmind: Inflation first big test for BOJ’s Ueda
By Jamie McGeever (Reuters) – A look at the day ahead in Asian markets from Jamie McGeever. Japanese inflation figures for March and the first insights into economic activity around the world…
Marketmind: Oil price relapse
A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan Throwing another curve ball into an already confusing inflation picture, crude oil prices have retreated sharply again this…
Marketmind: Cautious markets focus on central banks’ diverging paths
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Ankur Banerjee Investors have hunkered down in Asian hours with stocks drifting while the dollar clings to gains from overnight.…
Marketmind: Low volatility propping up risk appetite
By Jamie McGeever (Reuters) – A look at the day ahead in Asian markets from Jamie McGeever. Stocks may be treading water as investors digest a mixed flow of U.S. earnings and…
Marketmind: Crowded bonds unnerved
A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan For an investment world now so convinced of looming recession and substantially positioned for it, the incoming growth,…
Marketmind: Sterling’s inflation test
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Tom Westbrook Traders are scaling back bets on U.S. rate cuts, but dialling up expectations for British hikes. On Tuesday,…
Marketmind: Central banks on pause patrol
By Jamie McGeever (Reuters) – A look at the day ahead in Asian markets from Jamie McGeever. Whisper it, but Wednesday could be a pretty quiet day in Asia after Wall Street…
Marketmind: Global pulse picks up, rates creep higher again
A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan With investors largely assuming recession ahead, an accelerating global economic pulse challenges the narrative and is seeing interest…
Marketmind: China’s economy gathers pace but markets unimpressed
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Kevin Buckland China’s post-Covid recovery is firmly on track, according to a barrage of data on Tuesday. The economy expanded…
Marketmind: China under political, economic scrutiny
By Jamie McGeever (Reuters) – A look at the day ahead in Asian markets from Jamie McGeever. Investors’ focus on Tuesday rests squarely on China: From an economic and market perspective, eyes…
Marketmind: Banks calm the horses
A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan. As U.S. banking giants calm the horses, global investors are now concentrated on world growth and earnings signals…
Marketmind: Markets hope China chooses to surprise on the upside
(Reuters) – A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Wayne Cole. It’s been a careful start to the week in Asia with stocks and bonds little changed…
Marketmind: Are we calling it a banking crisis, shock … or blip?
By Jamie McGeever (Reuters) – A look at the day ahead in Asian markets from Jamie McGeever. Top-tier Chinese economic data including first-quarter GDP grabs the Asian spotlight this week, as investors…
Marketmind: Banks to test soft landing thesis
A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan World markets have surged this week on renewed hopes of disinflation, peak interest rates and a soft economic…
Marketmind: Singapore signals a peak for policy tightening
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Wayne Cole. Singapore’s central bank sprang the surprise of the Asian day by halting its tightening cycle when markets had…
Marketmind: Dollar skids, China revs
A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan Relief at the pace of U.S. disinflation hasn’t stopped markets betting on one final Federal Reserve rate hike…
Marketmind: Euro(pe) is on a roll
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Tom Westbrook The euro emerged as the clearest winner of slowing U.S. inflation and a watchful Fed. The common currency…
Marketmind: Nervy markets wait on inflation report, Fed cues
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Ankur Banerjee Today marks what has become a monthly routine when investors hold their collective breath for the U.S inflation…
Marketmind: Calm before the U.S. inflation storm
By Jamie McGeever (Reuters) – A look at the day ahead in Asian markets from Jamie McGeever. The world is bracing for U.S. inflation figures on Wednesday, but before that Asia gets…
Marketmind: Glass half full on disinflation
A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan Stock markets seem determined to see a glass half full in assessing the foggy growth and inflation outlook,…
Marketmind: Have payrolls resurrected the ‘soft landing’?
A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Tom Westbrook A surprise drop in unemployment and steady-as-she-goes hiring figures are boosting confidence among believers that the United States…
Marketmind: China-Taiwan tensions loom ever larger
By Jamie McGeever (Reuters) – A look at the day ahead in Asian markets from Jamie McGeever. The dramatic escalation in China-Taiwan tensions will loom large over Asia on Monday, potentially cranking…
Marketmind: And it was all going so well
LONDON (Reuters) – A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Amanda Cooper. It’s fair to say it’s been a fairly miserable week for many in the markets.…
Marketmind: Weary markets wary of recession
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Ankur Banerjee Another set of weaker-than-expected U.S. economic data has investors spooked at the prospect of a looming recession, crimping…
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