Stocks Advance, Bonds Fall as Trade Fears Subside: Markets Wrap
Bloomberg–7 hours ago
Stocks Advance, Bonds Fall as Trade Fears Subside: Markets Wrap. By. Eddie Van Der Walt. @EdvanderWalt More stories by Eddie Van Der Walt. March 25, 2018, 2:47 PM PDT Updated on March 26, 2018, 3:35 AM PDT. Brent crude holds above $70 as Yemen tension lingers. S&P 500 futures point to gains after gauge’s …
China Is About to Shake Up the Oil Futures Market
Bloomberg–13 hours ago
It’s taken a quarter of a century, but China finally has its own oil futures. At 9 a.m. local time on Monday, crude contracts began trading on the Shanghai International Energy Exchange. Futures for September settlement opened at 440 yuan a barrel, up from a reference price of 416 yuan. The world’s biggest …
JPMorgan Sees Market Overcoming Stock Rout, But Beware Trade …
Bloomberg–Mar. 24, 2018
So far, 2018’s huge dispersion in asset-lass returns defies any “catch-all theme,” they wrote, though “the cleaner link between macro trends and markets may explain why only bond managers seem to have generated much alpha this year.” JPMorgan sees potential for “idiosyncratic” catalysts in the coming …
Hong Kong Index Looks a Lot Like the Dow Before Black Monday
Bloomberg–6 hours ago
… Japan in the 1980s emerged from the shadow of the U.S. by advancing in high-value-added fields from machine tools to automobiles, threatening American competitors, the analyst said. “Less than two months later, the U.S. market peaked, and then saw an epic plunge on the Black Monday,” Hong noted.
Europe’s $38 Billion Carbon Market Is Finally Doing Its Job
Bloomberg–2 hours ago
Thirteen years after it was created to limit carbon-dioxide emissions, prices for the allowances are rising. European Union policymakers have enacted measures expected to keep the cost of pollution on an upward trajectory through 2030, prompting hedge funds that abandoned the market to pile back in.
Stocks Tumble in Biggest Weekly Decline Since 2016: Markets Wrap
Bloomberg–Mar. 22, 2018
Global markets were caught in a risk-off mode after China announced retaliation against President Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs announced Thursday. China’s ambassador to the U.S. wouldn’t rule out the possibility of the Asian nation scaling back purchases of Treasuries in response to the tariffs.
Stocks Drop Most in Six Weeks on Trade War Tension: Markets Wrap
Bloomberg–Mar. 21, 2018
In a stock market that’s been floundering ever since it hit record highs in late January, the prospect of a widening trade spat only added to jitters. Traders had already been bracing for the possibility of slowing growth as the Federal Reserve reiterated its commitment to further interest-rate increases after …
Markets Recover on US-China Trade Talk
Wall Street Journal–4 hours ago
Global stocks started the week higher, as investor anxiety over restrictive trade policies around the world began to subside. The Stoxx Europe 600 was up 0.3% in early morning trade, led by gains in Germany and France. In Asia, markets staged a late rebound while futures pointed to an opening gain of 1% …
These Charts Show How Markets Are Reacting to US-China Tariffs
Bloomberg–Mar. 22, 2018
Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ’s Cliff Tan explains how President Trump’s trade tariffs are affecting stock markets. … of the tit-for-tat trade tariffs between the world’s two largest economies that investors have feared since Donald Trump’s presidential-election win is now reverberating across financial markets.
Oil Trader Vitol to Post 25% Profit Drop as Market Shifts
Bloomberg–2 hours ago
Oil traders are struggling to match earnings in 2015 and 2016, when an oversupplied market meant they could lock in profits by storing crude and selling futures contracts at higher prices. Vitol’s 2016 profit was its third highest in its 50-year history. The 2017 results were first reported by the Financial Times.
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