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Market Talk – October 8, 2015

Asia was indifferent; Europe was small positive, but it was not until we saw the Fed minutes and McCarthy announcement did stocks decide to make a definite move...

Market Talk — October 5, 2015

The market reaction to the U.S. data on Friday has confused many with both stocks and bonds bouncing into the close. Overnight, the Asian equity markets have...

Market Talk — Oct. 1, 2015

Asian equities further consolidated the gains today, adding an additional 1-2% on yesterday’s closes. In Europe, early efforts to rally were muted and...

Market Talk – September 21, 2015

In Asia, the Hang Seng could not climb out of the red all day and eventually closed down –— 0.75%. As always, the Shanghai had a volatile session, initially...

Market Talk – September 14, 2015

Asian equities traded on the heavy side today (Nikkei -1.63% and Shanghai -2.67%), and so followed Europe. However, the U.S. market appeared most nervous of...

Market Talk – September 12, 2015

It was a mixed session for Asia yesterday after what has been a very volatile week. The talk remains as to what China’s next move would/should be and “if”...

Market Talk – September 9, 2015

Asia saw some very strong gains on rumors of renewed Chinese intervention with the Nikkei producing its strongest one-day rise since 2008 (1,343 points +7.7%). The...

Market Talk — September 8, 2015

Asia saw a mixed session where most markets were lower but talk of intervention in China saw a very healthy bounce in the last few minutes of trading (Nikkei...

Market Talk – September 2, 2015

Asia produced a mixed session for equity markets today with all majors closing in the red. Not too much gossip as most players were digesting the ADP report,...

Market Talk — September 1, 2015

You can always expect a quiet session when one of the major centers are out for a bank holiday, and that was what we saw yesterday. Not that dealers needed much of...