Asian shares set to end strong week on soft note, bonds enjoy relief rally – May 16 2025
Today’s Key Market Moves The Dow is the best performer of Wall Street’s three main indices, rising 0.65%. It’s now right around the 200-day moving average of 42289 points. The VIX volatility index closes at 17.81, its lowest closing level since March 25. Walmart shares fall as much as 5% after the retailer warns on the […]
Wall Street equity indexes close higher after US-China tariff truce May 13 2025
Today’s Key Market Moves Wall Street soars, with the Dow rising 2.8%, the S&P 500 up 3.3% and the Nasdaq leaping 4.4%. The latter hit their highest since early March, all three close above their 200-day moving averages. Among the key global equity index gains – Hang Seng and Hang Seng tech up 3% […]
US stock markets – May 2 2025
Notables Notable Earnings Today: Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM), fuboTV (NYSE: FUBO), Chevron (NYSE: CVX), The Cigna Group (NYSE: CI), Wendy’s (Nasdaq: WEN), Franklin Resources (NYSE: BEN), AES (NYSE: AES), Magna (NYSE: MGA), Cinemark (NYSE: CNK), Apollo (NYSE: APO), Atmus Filtration Technologies (NYSE: ATMU), BrightSpring Health Services (Nasdaq: BTSG), Brookfield (NYSE: BEP), Cboe Global Markets (BATS: CBOE), […]
US stock markets – May 1 2025
Notables Notable Earnings Today: Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN), Eli Lilly (NYSE: LLY), Airbnb (Nasdaq: ABNB), Roku (Nasdaq: ROKU), Block (NYSE: XYZ), Roblox (NYSE: RBLX), CVS Health (NYSE: CVS), Reddit (NYSE: RDDT), Mastercard (NYSE: MA), Sirius XM (Nasdaq: SIRI), McDonald’s (NYSE: MCD), Instacart (Nasdaq: CART), Shake Shack (NYSE: SHAK), Moderna (Nasdaq: MRNA), Hyatt Hotels (NYSE: […]
Stocks drift, dollar slips on US-China standoff – Apr 29 2025
Today’s Key Market Moves Wall Street’s big indexes sink as much as 1% intraday but recover by the close of trade. The Dow ends up 0.3%, the S&P 500 is essentially flat, and the Nasdaq dips 0.1%. U.S. tech stocks fall 0.2%; real estate and energy lead the gainers, rising 0.8% and 0.6%, respectively. India’s […]
Stocks jump with tech shares; dollar dips after recent gains – Apr 25 2025
Today’s Key Market Moves The S&P 500 closes up 2.02%, the Nasdaq Composite ends 2.74% higher and Dow Jones Industrial Average rises 1.23%. The dollar falls 0.6% against the yen, trading at 142.52. The euro rises 0.7%. Gold closes up 1.85%. The 10-year Treasury note yield falls 7.6 basis points to 4.311%. Brent crude oil […]
US stock markets – Apr 21 2025
Notables Notable Earnings Today: W.R. Berkley (NYSE: WRB), Comerica (NYSE: CMA), AZZ (NYSE: AZZ), Medpace (Nasdaq: MEDP), Bank of Hawaii (NYSE: BOH), BOK Financial (Nasdaq: BOKF), Calix Networks (NYSE: CALX), Cathay Bancorp (Nasdaq: CATY), AGNC Investment (Nasdaq: AGNC), Cadence Bank (NYSE: CADE), Capital City Bank Group (Nasdaq: CCBG), Dynex Capital (NYSE: DX), Equity LifeStyle Properties (NYSE: […]
Tariffied once again, short lived-respite, chips down – Apr 17 2025
Today’s key reads In a fog of uncertainty, Fed policy storm could be approaching WTO slashes 2025 trade growth forecast, warns of deeper slump US-China decoupling is crossing a Rubicon EXCLUSIVE-Nvidia kept some China customers in the dark about new US chip clampdown, sources say Record gold crowded by one mega player: Mike Dolan Market […]
Stocks bounce in Asia as some US tariffs paused- Apr 14 2025
Market Summary Asian stock markets : Wall St futures up as US tariffs delayed on some electronics Confusion as White House says levies might still come Dollar, Treasuries vulnerable to loss of confidence Data this week: U.S. retail sales and Chinese gross domestic product, ndex Last Change % Change trading higher Dow Jones Industrial Average […]
Will I buy Keppel Infrastructure Trust at 10% dividend yield? After the market sell-off?
We’ve been doing quite a few macro articles of late. So I figured let’s go back to basics this week, and address some of your burning questions. 2 questions in particular stood out: We’ll discuss KIT today. And the GBP question tomorrow. This is a modified FH Premium post written in March before the current […]
