by The BlackSummit Team | Apr 25, 2014 | Weekly Market Update
Market Action Equity markets started the week strong as a supposed agreement to deescalate tensions between Russia and Ukraine cooled risk concerns and paired with strong earnings reports, particularly from the technology sector, extended last week’s gains....
by Thierry Malleret | Apr 22, 2014 | Weekly Market Update
5 insightful op-eds or articles to help make sense of today’s world Adair Turner, “The High-Tech, High-Touch Economy” (Project Syndicate, April 16, 2014) The financial pundit observes that we live in a hi-tech virtual world in which the value of the most physical...
by The BlackSummit Team | Apr 18, 2014 | Weekly Market Update
Market Action The US equity markets rebounded this week to effectively erase prior week’s losses in all areas save for technology. The Dow gained 381.79 points for the week while the S&P and NASADQ, both registered gains of 49.16 and 95.79 respectively. Technology...
by Thierry Malleret | Apr 7, 2014 | Weekly Market Update
5 insightful op-eds or articles to help make sense of today’s world Nouriel Roubini, “The Changing Face of Global Risk” (Project Syndicate, March 31, 2014) Nouriel thinks that the six main global risks of a year ago (Eurozone breakup, fiscal crisis in the US,...
by Thierry Malleret | Apr 2, 2014 | Weekly Market Update
March heralds the return with a vengeance of geopolitical risk. The Ukrainian crisis, the rise of secular tensions in much of Asia, sectarian and civil strife in the “arc of instability” that stretches from Western Africa to Central Asia, social unrest in several...
by Thierry Malleret | Mar 30, 2014 | Weekly Market Update
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