Market Sentiment & Lateral Thoughts
THE European Union (EU) is determined to wrest control of euro, European securities and derivatives trade from London. Indeed the City, is already experiencing leakages.
EU Financial Services commissioner Mairead McGuinness has said that Brussels will not grant Britain’s financial … Read the rest
GLOBAL investors have swept risk fears aside and have piled into emerging market bonds.
Global rating agency Moody’s estimates that between 2010 and the first quarter of 2019, emerging market (EM) municipalities, other “sub-sovereigns”, corporations, financial institutions, infrastructure and project … Read the rest
PENSION funds, other institutions and family offices are buying hedge funds hoping that they will perform in a market decline.
The global stock market rally this year surprised the vast majority of investors. Such were the market swings in 2018 … Read the rest
Global markets, albeit jittery, have recovered sharply this year as investors and traders believe that monetary ease will continue.
“The very gradual monetary tightening process is on pause and has become less predictable,” says Claudio Borio, Head of the Bank … Read the rest