Stocks Pick of The Week - Stocks Momentum Largely Improved After Evidences Show Fed Turns into...

Fresh signs of a hot US labour market leave the Federal Reserve on course to raise interest rates by a quarter percentage point at its meeting next month, signalling more tightening is likely after...

Worries in stock markets, especially in tech-heavy Nasdaq, seem to have returned, even with the US indexes registering solid weekly gains last week, with the S&P 500 adding 2.5%, the Nasdaq Composite...

The Fed faces a dilemma at the 31 Jan to 1 Feb FOMC meeting. On one side, inflation data came in softer than expected, and activity indicators showed slowing momentum over the past month. On the...

Based on the initial market action of 2023, it appears that investors continue staying with the big tech firms, placing some bets on value stocks, while feasting on bonds of all kinds to capture...

2022 has marked the end of an era of cheap money, and that’s bad news for companies with a ‘growth at all costs’ approach. In the year ahead, investors will need to exercise due diligence in...

The dollar weakened further after a broad measure of November US inflation slowed while durables orders fell more than expected. Its fate in 2023 will very depend on the US inflation outlook and...

It has been more of the same for the US dollar in 2022, with supportive forces dominating most of the year and little reason to go against it, given the highly uncertain macroeconomic. Moving into...

If the Fed raises the federal funds rate by 50 bps this week and guides toward a terminal rate above 5%, dollar may rebound again especially if Powell’s tone become more hawkish than expected.

Job growth was better than expected in October despite Federal Reserve’s interest rate increases aimed at slowing a relatively strong labour market.

The current uptrend in global stocks may last weeks to months as new risks have become more visible.

So far this year, FOMC committee members have been remarkably united in setting monetary policy. The November minutes will likely reveal a consensus among policymakers that the Fed needs to slow rate...

Technology stocks last week staged their biggest comeback since the global financial crisis. Some investors still are not sold on the sector

The US CPI data, which will be announced later this week, will probably reveal that the Fed's rate rises have already had some effects on the economy. As a result, the data may imply that a 50bp...

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Fed officials are planning towards another interest-rate rise of 0.75 percentage points at their coming meeting this week and are likely to debate then whether and how to signal plans to approve a...

Japan intervened in the foreign exchange market on Friday to buy yen for the second time in a month after the currency hit a 32-year low near 152 to the dollar. The next question is: Central banks’...

Stocks slumped most of last week. Then, they unexpectedly surged Thursday, only to tumble again Friday. What happened? It could be another bear rally.

The robust September US jobs report significantly bolsters the case for a fourth consecutive 75-basis-point hike at the November FOMC meeting. The labour market remains tight, and the supply of...

Sterling crashes on mounting fiscal concerns, printing a record-low 1.035 against the dollar before recovering to around 1.050-handle.