An end to the bull run in global stocks is not far away, according to a Reuters poll which also showed a broad cut to forecasts for next year on concerns over global growth and tightening financial conditions. World stocks tested lows at the end of October during a brutal rout that wiped off...
https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/bull-run-finale-for-global-stocks-not-far-off-now-reuters-poll/
U.S. futures headed lower Friday as investors awaited further developments on trade negotiations between the U.S. and China. Futures pointed to a 0.5% opening loss for the S&P 500 after the benchmark index ended slightly lower on Thursday to snap a three-day winning streak. Still, the S&P 500 and...
https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/u-s-stocks-poised-to-slip-ahead-of-g-20/
Stocks in Europe and U.S. futures edged lower on the final trading day of the month, as investors awaited further developments on trade negotiations between the U.S. and China. Futures pointed to a small opening loss for the S&P 500 after the benchmark index ended slightly lower on Thursday to snap...
https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/global-stocks-tread-water-ahead-of-g-20/
Some people are doing an awful lot of handwringing over plunging oil prices. They shouldn’t. When oil prices take a major hit, just like we’ve seen recently, then stock prices should surge in short order, according to detailed historical market analysis. Here’s what we know for sure. Less than two...
https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/why-stock-investors-should-cheer-plunging-oil-prices/
Chinese stocks should outperform in Asia as a dimming economic outlook forces Beijing to take more aggressive measures to boost growth, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. While Asian equities have overshot to the downside this year, returns in 2019 will be “fairly subdued,” Goldman Sachs’ chief...
https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/china-among-bright-spots-in-asian-markets-in-2019-goldman-says/
Corporate bonds have taken a beating in November, adding to an already difficult year for a market that thrived in an era of ultra-easy money. Prices have tumbled, sending yields, which move in the opposite direction, to multiyear highs. Yields on dollar bonds issued by Asian corporations reached...
https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/global-selloff-tests-changed-credit-market/
China’s offshore bond issuers have increasingly veered away from selling in the U.S. in recent years, thanks to a deepening pool of dollar liquidity back home in Asia. The trade war is now making Chinese borrowers all the rarer in America. When Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd., China’s...
https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/china-dollar-bonds-face-higher-bar-in-u-s/
The collapse of a summit of Asia-Pacific leaders last weekend in Papua New Guinea isn’t the end of the world. In fact economic relations between the 21 nations won’t change much. Most need both China and the U.S. — and that’s what they will continue to get. For the first time since leaders of the …
https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/u-s-versus-china-isnt-a-cold-war-for-emerging-markets/
Euro zone money markets no longer fully price in a 10 basis point rate hike from the European Central Bank in 2019, indicating growing investor concern about the economic outlook in the single currency bloc. Money market futures dated to the ECB’s December 2019 meeting now price only a 95 percent...
https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/markets-no-longer-fully-price-in-an-ecb-rate-hike-in-2019/
The risk of a “flash crash” in markets is rising, strategists at Bank of America Merrill Lynch said, after a week in which previously-booming cryptocurrency Bitcoin tumbled, oil sank, and investors piled into stocks perceived as safer. Rising volatility across a range of asset classes and rapid...
https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/oil-and-bitcoin-highlight-growing-risk-of-market-crash-baml/