Euroland labor costs and trade balance
Chinese Data, Holiday Closures and Continuing Uncertainty over the Size of the Fed’s First Interest Rate Cut
September 16, 2024
Several Asian countries observed holiday closures this Monday: Japan for Respect for the Aged Day, China and South Korea for the mid-Autumn Festival, and Indonesia on this 1,454th birthday of the prophet Muhmammad. Accordingly, equity and bond markets got off to a slow start this week. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index closed up 0.3%, while […] More
A Shift from Fixed Income Assets Into Stocks
September 14, 2018
The second week of September came and went without the feared announcement of much higher U.S. tariffs. Even though that danger remains looking ahead, there’s been a return ot riskier assets. Share prices in the Pacific Rim rose 1.2% in Japan today, 1.0% in Hong Kong and Singapore, 1.3% in Indonesia and Taiwan, and 1.4% […] More
