Markets braced for Liberation Day

Big tech breaks out… FAANG stocks help the Nasdaq briefly pass through the 10,000-point mark for the first time, while the Dow suffers its worst day in three weeks, snapping a six-day winning streak. ...

10 Kesä 202024min

U.S. markets surge with the Nasdaq closing at a record high and the S&P 500 turns positive for 2020 as investors wait on this month’s Federal Reserve rate decision. Veteran hedge fund manager Stanley ...

9 Kesä 202024min

Something to work on… Asian markets rise on an unexpected jump in U.S. employment but questions linger over whether misclassifications kept the unemployment rate lower in May. In energy news, oil rall...

8 Kesä 202025min

Big Bazooka…Italian bond yields fall after ECB President Christine Lagarde announces an almost €600bn extension to its pandemic support package in order to help offset the sharp growth contraction thr...

5 Kesä 202026min

Markets undeterred… the S&P 500 posts its longest winning streak since February. This, despite the ongoing unrest across the U.S., as well as divisions over the response within the White House. The EC...

4 Kesä 202025min

U.S. tensions continue with the Pentagon moving 1,600 troops to the Washington D.C. area in anticipation of more violence following the police killing of George Floyd. The U.S. government launches a p...

3 Kesä 202024min

President Trump vows to send in the army should state governors fail to quell the violent protests raging across U.S. cities following the police killing of George Floyd. Some Facebook employees stage...

2 Kesä 202024min

Anger in America… protests and looting rage on across the U.S. following the police killing of a black man in Minneapolis. Curfews have been imposed and the National Guard is called in to quell the vi...

1 Kesä 202027min