The big uptick in stock market gyrations this year has made a surprise winner out of a trade that has rarely delivered a win – buying and holding volatility. Stock market ructions over the last decade have been few and fleeting, requiring great feats of timing to generate profits from volatility...
https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/buying-and-holding-volatility-usually-hurts-then-came-2018/
The New York Stock Exchange went into the Christmas break in its biggest market retreat in a decade, down about 20 per cent in three months. If it recovers some ground after reopening, that will be welcome but it remains to be seen when the volatility will end. This raises the question: what is...
https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/us-stock-market-meltdown-a-departure-from-economic-reality/
Foreign investors piling into South Korean bonds have made them the second-best performers in emerging Asia in the past six months. The coming week may give them more reason to keep buying. Seen as a haven from this year’s sell-off in emerging-market assets, the nation’s debt has drawn $45.6...
https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/asias-worst-currency-isnt-stopping-bond-bulls-from-pouring-in/
European fund managers cut equity exposure to a six-month low and upped cash holdings at the end of a tumultuous year for financial markets, which have been increasingly rocked by concerns over the health of the global economy. Global stocks clawed back some of October’s hefty losses in November....
Traders will be glad to see the back of 2018. Nearly $7 trillion has been wiped off world stocks, emerging markets have been trampled flat by a charging dollar and even gold and U.S. government bonds have lost money. A grisly combination of U.S.-China trade tensions, central banks turning off the...
https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/markets-suffer-worst-year-since-global-financial-crisis/
A disappointing rate outlook from the Federal Reserve dragged European shares down sharply on Thursday with several benchmark indexes hitting two-year lows on worries that tighter monetary conditions could further weigh on sluggish economic growth. The pan-European STOXX 600 index fell 1.6 percent...
https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/disappointing-fed-drags-european-shares-back-to-2016-levels/
World equity markets slipped on Thursday after the U.S. Federal Reserve dashed investor hopes of a more dovish policy outlook, worsening worries of a recession as signs grow that global economic growth is stuttering. Jitters over the Fed’s move to largely keep guidance for additional hikes over the...
https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/world-stocks-suffer-as-fed-heightens-recession-fears/
Global equity and crude oil markets attempted on Wednesday to claw their way out of a three-day long plunge that saw investors seek out the safety of bonds amid mounting pessimism over world growth. Oil’s spectacular fall – down almost 10 percent since last Thursday – and world stocks’ plunge to...
https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/world-stocks-and-oil-scramble-higher-after-plunge/
European markets were mostly in the red on Tuesday, as crude oil prices plummeted to new lows and investors remained jittery over an expected U.S. interest rate hike. Oil and energy led the decliners. What did markets do? The Stoxx Europe 600 dropped 0.8% to 340.60, after ending down 1% on Monday....
Global stocks slid Tuesday, following a sharp drop on Wall Street the day before, amid rising anxieties about the health of global economic growth. Europe’s pan-continental Stoxx Europe 600 index was 0.6% lower in opening trading, weighed down by a 1.5% fall for its oil-and-gas sector as concerns...