Analysis & Opinion

Key Takeaways• WTI trades around the 95.5 participation pivot after a strong multi-session advance. • Markets await US payrolls data for confirmation on labor-market resilience and demand...

U.S. stocks opened mixed for a second straight session after a strong non-farm payroll report and continued weakness in chip stocks.While the S&P 500 reached record highs earlier this week, it is...

Yet another stronger-than-expected US jobs number in an environment of rising inflation is fuelling expectations of a Fed rate hike before the end of the year. Nonetheless, there is a lack of breadth...

Wall Street has piled into the dollar debasement story; however, as is always the case, when everyone is on one side of the trade, the other side becomes more compelling. In Part 1, we explored why...

SUN: OPEC/JMMC Meeting (Jun) MON: Japanese GDP (Q1), German Factory Orders (Apr), US Consumer Inflation Expectations TUE: EIA STEO (Jun), South Korean GDP (Q1), UK BRC Retail Sales (May), Australian...

Another Weekend of Uncertainty AheadIt was another case of mixed messaging between the US and Iran yesterday. On one side of this diplomatic theatre, the US insists that negotiations are in their...

Then came another reminder that political risk often arrives uninvited. Here comes the tax man again !!Takeaways• Korea’s AI-driven equity boom is discovering that concentration is a...

Markets continue to lean toward an eventual diplomatic off-ramp in the Middle East, even as headlines remain contradictory and unpredictable.Takeaways• The AI trade paused, but the rally...