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Global Stocks Rise, Copper Soars In Thin Holiday Volumes

By silveristhenew | Published December 27, 2017

European stocks are steady in post-Christmas trading if struggling for traction after a mixed session in Asia, amid trading thinned by a holiday-shortened week and ongoing worries about the tech sector; however a strong rally in commodities – including copper and oil – buoyed expectations for a strong 2018 and helped offset concerns over the […]

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Global Stocks Roar To Record Highs As Tax Reform Is “Priced In” All Over Again

By silveristhenew | Published December 18, 2017

Global stocks and US equity futures roared upward to new record highs to start the second-to-last week of the year, boosted by optimism over a Republican agreement on the shape of U.S. tax cuts aimed at lifting growth; incidentally this is the 6th consecutive day that the “tax bill” has been priced in by the […]

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SocGen: “Global Earnings Are Back To 2014 Levels; Stocks Are 15% Higher”

By silveristhenew | Published October 2, 2017

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 […]

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Global Markets Rise As Shutdown Fears Recede; All Eyes On Wyoming As Jackson Hole Begins

By silveristhenew | Published August 24, 2017

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 […]

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Global Stocks Hit Another Record High, Ignore Slowing Chinese Trade

By silveristhenew | Published August 8, 2017

Following a sleepy overnight session, US futures are flat as are markets in Europe, while Asian stocks rose despite overnight trade data from China which unexpectedly missed across the board. As reported last night, Chinese export growth was the slowest since February while Import growth the weakest since Dec 2016, as both missed consensus estimtes. […]

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Dow Set To Open Above 22,000 As Global Stocks Levitate Higher

By silveristhenew | Published August 1, 2017

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 […]

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Global Stocks Hit Record High, Set For Longest Winning Streak Since 2015

By silveristhenew | Published July 19, 2017

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 […]

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Europe, US Futures Slip Despite Brent Bouncing Back To $51

By silveristhenew | Published May 11, 2017

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 […]

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Stocks Dazed After Trump NAFTA Flop, Tax Plan Disappointment; ECB Looms

By silveristhenew | Published April 27, 2017

European shares are lower, pressured by disappointing results by Deutsche Bank and ending a six-session gain, as Asian equities and S&P futures were little changed after a record-setting rally in world stocks which pushed the MSCI World index to over $50 trillion yesterday, fizzled after Trump released unconvincing tax cut plans prompting traders to “sell […]

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Global Stocks Drop, Futures Flat; French Yields Slide As Political Jitters Subside

By silveristhenew | Published February 27, 2017

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 […]

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