Trump trade dominates markets this week
Here are the big questions for investors ahead of the coming trading week. What impact will Donald Trump’s press conference have on markets? “I will be having a general news conference on JANUARY ELEVENTH…
Here are the big questions for investors ahead of the coming trading week. What impact will Donald Trump’s press conference have on markets? “I will be having a general news conference on JANUARY ELEVENTH…
Oil started the first week of 2017 with a bang but ended it with a whimper, as the Opec fireworks that…
The amount of money making bets that US Treasuries will fall in value climbed to a new record high over the…
Teva Pharmaceuticals, the world’s largest maker of generic drugs, has cut its sales and profit expectations for 2017 as it braces…
Nobody likes to admit going along with the consensus. It sounds better to be contrarian, and in markets there is far…
As the first battery cells roll off the production line at Tesla’s 1.9m sq ft Gigafactory in Nevada a scramble is…
Argentina is looking to sell up to $10bn of debt, taking advantage of calmer conditions across bond markets and a pullback…
China strengthened the renminbi’s trading range on Friday by the most since it depegged it in 2005, as investors awaited data…
Friday 02:30 GMT Overview Asia’s markets were bracing for key US jobs data on Friday, leaving stock indices flat and most…
Mexico’s central bank intervened in the foreign exchange markets to halt the peso’s record slide against the dollar but failed to…
After a near double-digit rally in US stocks since Donald Trump’s election victory, the question for investors is whether the outlook…
Thursday 15:20 GMT Overview A surge in the Chinese renminbi is contributing to selling of the US dollar, its retreat from…
January 4, 2017 by: Joe Rennison and Eric Platt in New York Wall Street’s debt engine started in record form at…
Wednesday 05:00 GMT Overview Data-fuelled optimism helped lift equities for a second day in Asia as Japanese investors cheered the weaker…
After seven years of stock markets climbing ever upwards, investors found a new reason to buy in November: the shock election…
Starbucks has already established itself as the undisputed king of retail coffee chains. Now one Wall Street analyst thinks it can…
Banks and commodity companies set the pace as the FTSE 100 extended its run into record territory on Tuesday, taking the…
Turkey’s lira fell to a record low on Tuesday amid concerns about rising inflation and the fallout from the new year’s…
While 2016 was the year the unlikely became real, currency investors enter 2017 no better equipped to tell the difference between…
Tuesday 05:05 GMT Overview Asian markets were in an upbeat mood in the first session for 2017, after a middling performance…
Venezuela has issued $5bn in new bonds to state-run Banco de Venezuela in a private placement, as it seeks cash for…
Welcome to a new year and the pressing market issues facing investors as they look to put money to work and…
In the last two months of the year, financial markets responded to the unanticipated election of Donald Trump in a textbook…
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While you were doing your Christmas shopping, an old-fashioned takeover contest was being fought out in an obscure corner of the…
Investors’ positions fluctuated wildly this year after unexpected election results in the UK and US upended markets, ultimately propelling a global…
Hindsight Capital beats the market, and all competition, every year. But how would it do over a decade? For the uninitiated,…
Financial markets in 2016 endured an escalation of negative interest rates, the collapse and subsequent rebound in commodity prices and fluctuating…