3+ week, 6+ hour ago   (276+ words) Stocks came under pressure with Alibaba and Samsung weighing on Asian tech shares overnight Monday. Alibaba fell 8.7 per cent after it announced a monster capital raise, which helped drive the Hang Seng down around 2 per cent, while Samsung were off…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (103+ words) “A Fed that says less is manageable when the data is clear,” observes Veronica Clark, developed markets economist at Citi. “When the data is split, the silence becomes its own source of volatility.” Investors will be watching Wednesday’s PCE release…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (192+ words) The last two days have confirmed the bull case for gold in an era of rising deficits, inflation and now government efforts to keep borrowing costs down. The Dow Jones fell 700 points, led by a decline for Walmart post-earnings, while…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (553+ words) Milton Friedman taught us inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon and government spending creates money: as the state expands we get more cash swishing around the system. That’s a problem if there are no more goods to buy…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (269+ words) Yesterday’s enthusiasm after the US government’s bold foray into meddling with bond markets isn’t going down too well in Europe, with the major bourses all falling in early trading. The FTSE 100 is down 0.2 per cent, although some of this is…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (443+ words) Higher US Treasury yields and volatility across the bond market are leaving the dollar as the least ugly sister. The dollar index is up slightly this morning while the pound has fallen on yet more signs of weakness in the…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (184+ words) Investors' Chronicle At first, economic resilience in the face of spiking oil prices came as a relief to economists. Now it is more of a quandary: what is sustaining the global economy, and how long can it last? Some analysts…...