Demystifying the Market’s Shadows
Is the uncertainty over? Are the anxieties about trade policy, institutional stability, definitive direction on the economy, earnings, debt, interest rates, the dollar, and valuations over? And if not, how then do we explain the equity markets’ upswing in the last ten...
Weekly Market Update
Global Market News Global Equities Rebound Global equities gained this week, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq recouping April's losses, but still remaining down for the year. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq rose 7.65% and 10.38%, respectively, while the Dow Jones increased...
Geopolitics & the Day After
This week in Geopolitical Concerns, we examine how Mark Carney’s election victory in Canada and growing unease in Asia signal an international backlash to Trump's second-term policies, as well as Germany potentially charting a path away from U.S. dependence. In...
Regional Market Watch
Welcome to our monthly newsletter which covers key developments in non-US markets. With this newsletter, we highlight corporate, debt, and monetary policy news in European, Asian, and Latin American markets. We end this piece with a spotlight on commodities. European...
Carbon Market News Roundup
Welcome to our monthly newsletter, Carbon Market News Roundup, the goal of which is to introduce our audience to a new asset class market in the making: the carbon market. Our previous issues, along with the rest of our commentaries, may be read here....
Weekly Market Update
Global Market News Global equities made gains this week. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq increased 4.59% and 6.73%, respectively, and the Dow Jones rose 2.48% on the week. The U.S. 10-year Treasury note dropped back down to 4.24%, while the price of West Texas Intermediate...
Geopolitics & the Day After
This week in Geopolitical Concerns, we examine the unraveling of America’s traditional expertise-based foreign policy as political loyalists reshape global engagement, while a revived “concert of powers” vision signals a shift toward great-power accommodation and...
The Markets at a Junction: The Dollar, Seneca, the Flows of Capital, and Japan, Part II
When a market (or any institution) lacks an anchor, a myriad of negative repercussions unfold, starting with the lack of tranquility. The absence of the latter creates uncertainty, and the effect of the uncertainty is turmoil. In the following graph, we see the impact...
Bi-Weekly Market Update
US Equity Markets President Trump’s aggressive tariff policies and rhetoric, especially towards China and the EU, are major drivers of continued market uncertainty and volatility over the past two weeks. This is evidenced by the elevated VIX (hitting a high of over 53...
Geopolitics & the Day After
This week in Geopolitical Concerns, we examine how Europe’s strategic identity is being tested as it stands at a crossroads between deeper alignment with a U.S.-led alliance and economic entanglement with China, amid rising tariff battles and an evolving doctrine of...
