FOCUS ON FIRST-QUARTER RESULTS Latest figures seem to suggest that the growth rate of new Covid-19 cases is flattening, while news of governments preparing exit strategies from the lockdown is [...]
MARKETS STEADYING? The data are pointing to a massive hit to economies following the shuttering of many businesses. Corporate earnings estimates have been slashed and companies are not bothering with [...]
MARKETS BLOWING HOT AND COLD Financial markets are facing an unprecedented crisis and who knows how it will turn out. This is leading to violent price swings across all asset [...]
MARKETS STRESSED Financial markets are facing unprecedented disruption and who knows how long it is going to last. The crux of the matter is how long the economy will stay [...]
THE FED GIVES ALL IT HAS The Covid-19 pandemic and its increasing impact on the global economy, as more and more European countries suspend all non-essential activities, have pushed risk [...]
IS OIL THE LATEST BLACK SWAN? Coronavirus has become the bane of investors’ existence in recent weeks. Another thing that they did not see coming (referred to by some as [...]
VOLATILITY HITS FEVER PITCH Equity markets are all in a panic. The VIX tracking the S&P 500 (known as the Wall Street ‘fear gauge’) was spiking at 40 on Thursday [...]
SPREAD OF CORONAVIRUS OUTSIDE CHINA STOKES FEARS The mood was most definitely ‘risk off’ as markets ended the week. Shares fell while long-term bond yields and the prices of gold [...]
PBOC FUNNELS MORE LIQUIDITY INTO THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM Output from the Chinese economy was only 40-50% of its usual capacity last week. The threat hanging over the world economy is [...]
