Weekly Market Update
Market Action US equity markets closed the month of May posting gains. It marks the fourth month in the year that stocks have posted gains. The S&P 500 and Dow Jones closed Friday at record highs Despite gains in equities the week was marked by considerable...Weekly Selections from Monthly Barometer
5 insightful op-eds or articles to help make sense of today’s world Michael Spence, “Labor’s Digital Displacement” (Project Syndicate, May 22, 2014) The Nobel laureate in economics explains why digital technologies are transforming global value chains and, with them,...Weekly Market Update
Market Action Stock markets in the US posted their first gains in three weeks. The S&P 500 closed at a record high on Friday despite little in the way of earnings or economic news this past week. US Treasury Bonds dominated market commentary early in the week as...Weekly Selections from Monthly Barometer
5 insightful op-eds or articles to help make sense of today’s world Martin Wolf, “Time for Draghi to Open the Sluice” (Financial Times, May 13, 2014 – metered paywall) The FT’s columnist observes that the Eurozone’s recovery in confidence is encouraging, but too...Weekly Market Update
Market Action A positive start to equities this week quickly reversed course by the time markets opened on Wednesday. Low US Retail Sales prefaced poor data from China and Australia and contraction in Europe. In addition private forecasters expect US Q1 GDP growth to...Sign Up for Our Publications
