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: Bank of England in a bind
A look at the day ahead in markets from Sujata Rao The Fed’s decision to raise rates by 75 basis points has left its communication track record dented, with only a WSJ…
Marketmind: A half or three quarters?
A look at the day ahead in markets from Sujata Rao The bond selloff triggered by last week’s May consumer inflation print got fresh legs on Tuesday when U.S. factory gate inflation…
Marketmind: Shockwaves, say no more
A look at the day ahead in markets from Dhara Ranasinghe Central banks’ challenge — hiking interest rates to contain soaring inflation without wrecking their economies — has just got harder. From…
Marketmind: The race to the exit
A look at the day ahead in markets from Saikat Chatterjee. A big week in markets is about to get bigger. A day after the European Central Bank took markets by surprise…
Marketmind: Hey ECB, how high will you go?
A look at the day ahead in markets from Dhara Ranasinghe. There’s little doubt the European Central Bank will on Thursday confirm it will pull the plug on years of stimulus and…
Marketmind: Safe as houses
A look at the day ahead in markets from Sujata Rao One of the biggest challenges for central banks is to let the air out of housing markets slowly, without precipitating a…
Marketmind: Looking at the bright side of markets
A look at the day ahead in markets from Sujata Rao It’s a pretty eventful day in markets. U.S. 10-year yields are back above 3%, lifting the dollar to two-week highs. Then,…
Marketmind: “Super bad feeling”
A look at the day ahead in markets from Julien Ponthus. With the Nasdaq losing about a quarter of its value since the beginning of the year, no doubt some investors will…
Marketmind: Full steam ahead for central banks
A look at the day ahead in markets from Sujata Rao. From Wednesday, the U.S Federal Reserve starts allowing the bonds it holds to mature, and will no longer replace them —…
Marketmind: Fever pitch
A look at the day ahead in markets from Saikat Chatterjee. Perhaps it is fitting that a month that has seen such a remarkable swing in interest rate expectations for the major…
Marketmind: One investor’s rebound is another’s bear rally
A look at the day ahead in markets from Julien Ponthus. What a difference a week makes! With the Dow Jones snapping out of its longest weekly losing streak in nearly a…
Marketmind: Whack-a-mole on markets
A look at the day ahead in markets from Saikat Chatterjee. While investors obsess over what the world’s biggest central bank might do next, the uneasy calm prevailing in global markets is…
Marketmind: I know what you’ll do this summer
A look at the day ahead in markets from Julien Ponthus. European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde openly admitted for the first time what investors had already been betting on for a…
Marketmind: Batten down the hatches
A look at the day ahead in markets from Saikat Chatterjee. Markets are starting to buckle in a week where the world’s top central bank issued its most dire warning yet on…
Marketmind: Apocalypse now?
A look at the day ahead in markets from Dhara Ranasinghe. Bank of England boss Andrew Bailey is sorry for an “apocalyptic” view of the world, saying that monetary policy faces its…
Marketmind: TGIF – is it over yet?
A look at the day ahead in markets from Dhara Ranasinghe. After a wild ride, markets are in a calmer mood for now. Yet, it is Friday 13 and those prone to…
Marketmind: Waiting for China
A look at the day ahead in markets from Sujata Rao. Earlier this year, investors’ fears of an aggressive Fed rate hike cycle were tempered by signs China was looking to ease…
Marketmind: How far behind the curve exactly?
A look at the day ahead in markets from Julien Ponthus. On Friday, St. Louis Fed President James Bullard argued that the U.S. Federal Reserve is “not as far behind the curve…
Marketmind: Sell everything (except the dollar)!
A look at the day ahead in markets from Dhara Ranasinghe. When the blue-chip Dow Jones index slides more than 1,000 points on one day, U.S. Treasury yields jump as much as…
Marketmind: The real balancing act
A look at the day ahead in markets from Saikat Chatterjee. Market reaction after the U.S. Federal Reserve’s 50 basis-point interest rate rise was a classic case of “buy the rumour and…
Marketmind: 1%, 2%, 3%..
A look at the day ahead in markets from Julien Ponthus. The global monetary tightening cycle has crossed a symbolic milestone with yields on German, British and U.S. 10-year government debt topping…
Marketmind: Peak hawkishness
A look at the day ahead from Danilo Masoni. A sharply lower close on Wall Street on Friday will set the tone across Europe this morning, as a busy week for central…
Marketmind: Something’s off
A look at the day ahead in markets from Julien Ponthus. It’s the final day of trading of April and it does look like despite the fireworks on Wall Street last night,…
Marketmind: The weak currency gang
A look at the day ahead in markets from Dhara Ranasinghe. The weak-currency gang is growing in force. The yen plunged to a new two-decade low versus the dollar on Thursday after…
Marketmind: Misfortune comes in threes… or fours and fives
A look at the day ahead in markets from Sujata Rao The bad news doesn’t stop. Russia has upped the ante on European gas buyers, halting flows to Poland and Bulgaria for…
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