by Laura Hochstetler | Apr 14, 2018 | Uncategorized, Weekly Market Update
Market Action Global equities climbed this week despite fluctuating sentiment about the prospects of a trade war between the US and China and heightened geopolitical tension over Syria. Oil prices rose to their highest levels since 2014. News regarding trade frictions...
by Ken Rietz | Apr 12, 2018 | Uncategorized
This week we continue our review of the different sectors within the S&P and in the commentary below we discuss the industrial sector. Overall, the industrial sector globally is healthy and growing at a moderate pace. We will look at this a bit more closely, and...
by Andy Quirk | Apr 7, 2018 | Uncategorized, Weekly Market Update
Market Action This week has been challenging for investors as they struggle to grapple with the impact of trade threats and counter-threats between the US and China. China responded to the US tariff announcement on steel imports by announcing its own tariff of up to...
by John E. Charalambakis | Apr 5, 2018 | Commentaries, Uncategorized
In this week’s commentary, we would like to discuss our perspective for the short-term based on some changes we have been observing in the market. However, before we show this – mainly through some graphs – allow us to clarify the cross-determination part of the...
by Laura Hochstetler | Mar 31, 2018 | Uncategorized, Weekly Market Update
Market Action China’s yuan-denominated crude-oil futures surged on their debut Monday. Beijing hopes the new market will eventually give the country an oil benchmark to rival WTI in the U.S. and Brent Crude in Europe. China is the world’s biggest importer of oil after...
by Laura Hochstetler | Mar 24, 2018 | Uncategorized, Weekly Market Update
Market Action Stocks globally suffered steep losses for the week against a turbulent geopolitical backdrop including growing trade frictions between the United States and China. The declines took most of the indexes back into negative territory for the year to date....