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Last week, we outlined three trade deal scenarios and their potential impact on the S&P 500, noting that one scenario involved China retaliating to US tariffs “through a combination of its...

Major U.S. stock indices were lower by about 1% midday Friday after the U.S. more than doubled its tariffs on $250B in Chinese goods overnight (though European and some Asian indices are shrugging off...

Most risk assets are selling off on fears of a negative outcome from U.S.-China trade talks, but Bitcoin is quietly defying that trend.The world’s oldest cryptoasset has rallied nearly 100% from...

With little on the calendar over the next couple of day’s (Wednesday’s RBNZ meeting notwithstanding), the ongoing U.S.-China trade negotiations will take center stage for traders.To recap:...

Traders in both Japan and the UK were out of their offices for bank holidays Monday, leaving lower liquidity conditions across global markets. While the absence of a major global trading hub or two...

With shares of the highly anticipated ride-sharing company LYFT (NASDAQ:LYFT) trading lower by nearly 20% from its late-March IPO price, there was little to suggest investors had “irrational...

“Time flies when you’re having fun” and sure enough, it’s already time for another Nonfarm Payrolls report.Last month’s reading on the US labor market was most remarkable...

In Tuesday’s FOMC preview, we noted that we were unlikely to see any immediate changes to monetary policy, apart from a possible technical tweak to the central bank’s interest on excess...

Last month, the Federal Reserve made a major shift toward neutral policy, with 11 of the 17 FOMC members anticipating no further interest-rate changes this year. Against that backdrop, this...

After potentially the quietest quarter in its history, the world’s most widely traded currency pair finally broke out last week…but the big question for traders is, “will it...

To the surprise of no informed market participant, the Bank of Canada left interest rates unchanged at 1.75% in Wednesday’s monetary policy meeting. A pre-meeting Bloomberg poll of 24 economists...

Global capital is flooding into US markets as many traders return from a long holiday weekend.Traders woke up to news that China may be reeling in its stimulus measures and that President Trump is...

Earlier this month, we noted that April has historically been the most bullish month for West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil, with the commodity gaining an average of nearly 5% in the month over...

FX traders were casting a wandering eye ahead toward a long holiday weekend Thursday morning but the US retail-sales report pulled their attention back to their monitors.After a disappointing -0.2%...

It was a day of differing fortunes for the antipodean currencies.The kiwi was the day’s biggest loser after a weak Q1 CPI report potentially put an imminent rate cut onto the table. In contrast,...

As any gold bug will tell you, last year’s fourth quarter was a strong one, with the yellow metal gaining nearly 8% from October through New Year’s Day. The good times carried over into...