March 4, 2020
The Federal Reserve announced an emergency 50-basis point rate cut yesterday morning and after a short-lived spike, equity markets sold off sharply. We believe U.S benchmarks would have finished at session highs if it were not for the Fed’s action, one that exuded fear. The odds of a 50-basis point cut stood at 100% and risk-sentiment was in recovery-mode from last week’s bloodbath as long as a cut was coming.
March 4, 2020
Shopping centres group Intu Properties has abandoned plans for an equity fundraising of up to £1.5bn after concluding that it is “unable to proceed” at this point. The company says that, while some shareholders and potential new investors were supportive, the “current uncertainty” in the equity and retail property investment markets “precluded a number of potential investors from committing capital”. Intu is now exploring “alternative capital structures and asset disposals”.
March 4, 2020
March 3, 2020
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March 3, 2020
Oftentimes, NAV decline stems from a combination of dealer fear lowering indicated prices and actual buyers who are looking to be opportunistic. The fewer the trades that take place in bonds of higher quality credits (which is not the same as ratings), the more likely that sellers aren’t willing to make a sale, especially when buyers are bidding and trying to be available for motivated sellers that don’t appear.
March 3, 2020
March 3, 2020
March 3, 2020
Intuitive Surgical announced on February 10th, 2020 that it has acquired privately held Orpheus Medical to grow its integrated informatics platform. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed and Intuitive Surgical has said that Orpheus Medical will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of the company.
March 3, 2020
Market volatility can trigger knee-jerk reactions that are best avoided by long-term investors. Two client types in particular are vulnerable to overreacting to the sharp downturn: Millennials and Boomers.
March 3, 2020
Global demand for rubber gloves is expected to increase as countries step up efforts to contain the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, which has spread to at least 65 countries and territories. So far, more than 3,000 patients worldwide have died from the virus and nearly 90,000 have been infected.
March 3, 2020
We have seen a rapid and dramatic market correction as a result of the news flow around the COVID-19 outbreak. This appears to be an overreaction, in my view — but I would not be surprised to see the sell-off continue as uncertainty remains high on key issues: ease of transmission, length of time a person can be infected and contagious without showing symptoms, mortality rates, and length of time before the infection rate stabilizes globally.
March 3, 2020
The recent market sell off related to the Coronavirus has many investors worried. And with good reason. When panics like this set in, we all tend to focus on worst case scenarios and want to take action in response.
March 3, 2020
The stock market was doing okay yesterday, yet it made a monster move in the final hour of trading that coincided with a stark selloff in the Treasury market. The parallel trade looked like an asset allocation shift out of an overbought Treasury market and into an oversold stock market.
March 3, 2020
The recovery is underway, or is it? U.S benchmarks muscled another late surge yesterday. The tape has broadly held ground overnight and even poked its head higher. Furthermore, the S&P is out above a key technical level at 3050-3060 which in our mind paves a path of least resistance higher.
March 3, 2020
March 3, 2020
Stock futures are firmly higher, looking to add to yesterday’s impressive gains as the Dow Jones Industrial Average scored its biggest one day point gain ever and one-day percentage gain in nearly 11 years on Monday, as stocks bounced back sharply from the previous week’s selloff fueled by expectations that policy makers will move to cushion the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on the global economy.
March 3, 2020
Retail bakeries chain Greggs has unveiled a 31% increase in full-year pre-tax profits from £82.6m to £108m on sales 13.5% higher at £1.17bn. Chief executive Roger Whiteside says this year has seen “very strong” sales in January but a “significant slowdown” in growth in February, due to the UK storms. He warns of “some uncertainty in the outlook, particularly given the potential impact of coronavirus”.
March 2, 2020
March 2, 2020
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March 2, 2020
Asian markets diverged with Japan, Hong Kong, Mainland China, and Korea rising while Taiwan , Australia, India, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia were off. The big story was Mainland China, which ripped higher as Mainland investors believe this weekend’s poor PMIs will lead to further stimulus measures.
March 2, 2020
US stocks had their worst week since the 2008 financial crisis, and that earned them a new record late last week: the fastest “correction” in history.
March 2, 2020
Decentralized cryptocurrency exchanges based on the Ethereum blockchain platform recorded all-time high transaction volumes in February, according to data from Dune Analytics.
March 2, 2020
Our working framework for S&P 500 corrections is explained. Firstly, we integrate moving averages into the framework. We view: The 200-day moving average (DMAVG) as a short-term trend change; The 55-week moving average (WMAVG) as a medium-term trend change;The 200-week moving average (WMAVG) as a cycle change.
March 2, 2020
