Weekly Market Update
Market Action The EU began enforcing the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which applies to any company doing business in the bloc and includes new privacy rights as well as data collection responsibilities. The GDPR is backed up with high fines: up to 4% of...Weekly Market Update
Market Action The stock market gave back 25% of last week’s gains as investors watched US-China trade tensions. Both the Dow and S&P 500 fell 0.5% and the Nasdaq lost 0.7%, while the Russell 2000 gained 1.2%. Treasury yields retreated from multi-year highs...Weekly Market Update
Market Action Global equities showed a solid advance on the week, helping push the major US benchmarks back into positive territory for the year to date. Crude oil prices reached their highest levels since December 2014. President Trump withdrew the US from the 2015...Weekly Market Update
Market Action Argentina’s central bank shocked markets by raising interest rates to 40 percent on Friday. The peso moved nearly 5 percent higher to 21.17 against the dollar, but remains down 15 percent so far this year. Argentina’s treasury minister said the treasury...Weekly Market Update
Market Action Global equities were little changed on the week, recovering ground lost at midweek. The yield on the US 10-year Treasury note rose three basis points from last Friday, briefly topping 3% on Wednesday (the first time that threshold had been breached in...Sign Up for Our Publications
