Category Archives: MSCI World
SocGen: “Global Earnings Are Back To 2014 Levels; Stocks Are 15% Higher”
Is it QE or is it earnings? With the Dow starting off the final quarter with a bang, surging to new all time highs alongside the S&P, few care what is prompting the latest surge in risk assets, which is a problem because as One River CIO Eric Peters noted yesterday, we have gotten to […]
Global Markets Rise As Shutdown Fears Recede; All Eyes On Wyoming As Jackson Hole Begins
U.S. stock-index futures are fractionally in the green as European shares rise, Asia is mixed and oil drops modestly. Global risk staged a rebound and markets unwound some of yesterday’s safe-haven moves as U.S. government shutdown fears receded and concerns about the Trump administration’s ability to enact its fiscal agenda were put on the back-burner […]
Dow Set To Open Above 22,000 As Global Stocks Levitate Higher
Welcome to August: you may be surprised to learn that S&P 500 futures are once again levitating, higher by 0.3%, and tracking European and Asian markets. Asian equities traded higher across the board after China’s Caixin Manufacturing PMI beat expectations and printed its highest since March, refuting the decline in the official PMI data reported […]
Global Stocks Hit Record High, Set For Longest Winning Streak Since 2015
In what has been a less exciting session than the previous two, the euro retraced some recent gains as traders grew concerned they may have overestimated the ECB’s hawkish bias ahead of Thursday’s rate decision; in turn the dollar edged higher after the collapse of the GOP healthcare bill sent it to the lowest since […]
Europe, US Futures Slip Despite Brent Bouncing Back To $51
Asian stocks rose lifted by commodity names; European equities trade mostly lower but with little in the way of conviction or firm direction while the Italian banking index is at the highest level in a year following domestic earnings; S&P index futures are modestly in the red after the cash market closed at a record […]
Global Stocks Drop, Futures Flat; French Yields Slide As Political Jitters Subside
In a quiet night for markets, in which the top highlight was the Oscar’s historic peddling of best picture “fake news” and where “millions” of Academy members seemingly voted illegally, European stocks were little changed after a selloff that pushed them to a two-week low, while the MSCI Asia index fells as Japan’s Topix dropped […]