Why Low Volatility Is Not The Same As Low Risk
Why Low Volatility is Not The Same As Low Risk Some of the worst-performing portfolios in...
Read MoreDollar Surges As Markets Price Longer Hormuz Crisis And Persistent Inflation
Risk sentiment deteriorated sharply today as investors concluded that the Trump-Xi summit failed to deliver a credible... Read more
Markets Enter Warsh Fed Era With Higher Yields, Stronger Dollar, And No Hormuz Relief
The first trading day of Kevin Warsh’s tenure as Federal Reserve Chair is already being defined by rising Treasury y... Read more
Trump-Xi Summit Fails To Convince Oil Markets On Hormuz
Risk sentiment remained broadly stable on Thursday as US equity futures edged higher alongside European stocks, extend... Read more
Markets Await Concrete Signals As Trump-Xi Summit Begins In Beijing
Markets are still waiting for the real signals. As US President Donald Trump’s two-day summit with Chinese President... Read more
Dollar Firm As Sticky Inflation Lifts Fed Expectations, Sterling Hit By UK Leadership Crisis
Dollar stayed broadly firm after another major upside surprise in US inflation data reinforced expectations that the F... Read more
Markets Hold Breath Ahead Of Trump-Xi Summit As Hormuz Crisis Nears Critical Point
Markets are staying in a cautious holding pattern as investors awaited the highly anticipated Trump-Xi summit later th... Read more
Dollar Gains As Oil And CPI Lift Fed Hike Bets, But Risk Appetite Holds Firm
Dollar strengthened broadly today as rising oil prices and firmer-than-expected US inflation data continued pushing ma... Read more
Markets Turn To US CPI As Geopolitical Traders Hold Fire
Markets entered a temporary holding pattern on today as traders largely refrained from making aggressive geopolitical ... Read more
Markets Turn Uneasy As Iran Deadlock Persists And UK Political Risk Rises
Markets moved into a more cautious tone today as the deadlock in US-Iran peace negotiations continued to drag on, whil... Read more
Dollar Recovers As Iran Talks Stall, Focus Turns To Trump-Xi Summit
The market narrative is becoming more complicated. Dollar and oil are rising again as Iran negotiations stall, yet sem... Read more
Markets Ignore Geopolitical Risks, Chase AI Rally, And Dump Dollar
Markets spent last week aggressively chasing the AI-driven equity rally while largely ignoring geopolitical tensions i... Read more
Markets Embrace Strong US Employment Report, But Iran Remains The Bigger Risk
The US jobs report gave stock markets exactly what they wanted — proof the economy is still holding up without reign... Read more
NFP Takes Back Seat As Hormuz Clash Keeps Markets On Edge
The US Non-Farm Payrolls report may be today’s headline event on the economic calendar, but markets are behaving as ... Read more
From War Panic To Post-Conflict Positioning: Oil Falls, Silver Surges
Markets appear to be entering a new phase of post-conflict positioning, with oil prices falling again on hopes of a fu... Read more