The utilization of the Chinese market as both policy tool and ‘wealth’ creator – as The Fed has done with the S&P 500 – remains less than the PBOC would like. It appears the Chinese prefer their ‘risk’ in Baccarat and real estate and don’t trust those stock markets shisters… so the government is doing something about it. While American […]
Just a reminder if you have not done so, please take 60 seconds to take our quarterly survey; thanks!Stocks recovered some of the losses of the past 2 sessions as the Federal Reserve said the end of quantitative easing should be in October but don’t look for an interest rate hike anytime soon. Fed Chair Yellen testifies to Congress next […]
Nicholas Kamm/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesWorld Cup fans gathered in Washington on Thursday to watch the United States play Germany.The United States-Germany soccer match on Thursday was a roller coaster of emotions. And an analysis of the social media communications before, during and after the match shows the minute-by-minute shifts in sentiment and in subjects discussed, as the American team […]
Louis Scott, Founder, Kiema Advisors”News really does matter but it matters in terms of the volatility it creates rather than the alpha that you can harvest.”
London – The idea that news flow can be
systematically traded is becoming widely accepted. And not just
for major news agencies commenting on planned announcements.
Increasingly, social […]
Stocks were mixed in late afternoon trading Monday, shedding small gains from earlier in the day. Corporate merger news and an encouraging survey of homebuilders had helped lift the market even as traders monitored the growing insurgency by Sunni militants in Iraq and its implications for global oil prices.KEEPING SCORE: The Standard […]
The report, seen by the Financial Times, identifies $29.1tn in market investments, including gold, held by 400 public sector institutions in 162 countries.
China’s State Administration of Foreign Exchange has become “the world’s largest public sector holder of equities”, according to officials quoted by Omfif. “In a new development, it appears that PBoC itself has been directly buying minority equity […]
For the first time in years, Iraq news is moving the markets again. Turkish stocks took a beating on Wednesday, with the iShares MSCI Turkey ETF (TUR) shedding 5.2%.The apparent reason? Armed militants from the terrorist group the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (“ISIS”) seized the Turkish consulate in Mosul, taking the consul and his staff of nearly 50 […]
A spike in crude oil prices and discouraging economic data dragged the benchmarks down on Thursday. Investors were worried about the extent to which the Iraq crisis could affect the nation’s oil supply. Moreover, less-than-forecasted retail sales growth and an unexpected rise in unemployment benefits also dented investor sentiment. The S&P 500 dropped for three-consecutive days for the first time […]
Benchmarks dropped the most in three weeks on Wednesday after World Bank lowered projections for global economic growth. The Dow snapped a four-day rally of record high closes. The blue-chip index also closed 157 points away from its key technical level of 17,000. The Nasdaq also ended a five-session winning streak. The S&P 500 recorded its biggest one day percentage […]
The ups and downs of Obamacare — from its passage to its rollout and now implementation — have consumed Washington, D.C., and American politics.But for those who run companies — and provide health insurance to more than half of all Americans — not much has fundamentally changed. Health care is still a business disease: U.S. enterprises spend more than $620 […]
