The recent non-farm payroll – showing a gain of only 173K jobs in August — wasn’t too impressive at first glance, but a closer look shows the report wasn’t too bad — with upward revisions of previous months, modest gain…
The U.S. GDP came up higher than expected at 3.7%. And this was enough to through China’s woes out the window and drive back up equities and energy commodities prices. But this could all change if the upcoming NFP report…
The ongoing concerns over China’s economic growth has dragged down the U.S. stock markets and energy prices have also declined. The minutes of the last FOMC meeting didn’t offer a lot of insight either than keeping the markets guessing on…
The recent decision of China to allow its currency to slightly devalue has caused a sharp rise in volatility mainly in the foreign exchange market. Now that the talks of additional devaluation has subsided, the focus in the financial markets…
The NFP report didn’t turn out to get a strong market reaction considering it came very close to market expectations with a gain of 215K. But another fair report is still another chip for the Fed to consider raising rates…
The FOMC, as usual, didn’t make any major changes to its policy and didn’t offer any big headlines. But this was interrupted by the markets that there won’t be a September rate hike. Also, the U.S. GDP for Q2 came…
China continues to raise voices of concern over its progress, Greece’s troubles are far from over (the talks over the debt restructuring should start this week) and Iran’s impact on the oil market is still unclear now that a nuclear…
The talks over the Greek debt crisis have started to subside, even though the drama continues. But for now, Grisis averted. The U.S.-Iran deal is also a big headline that also created some waves in the financial markets mainly in…
The Greek drama continues to dominate the news cycle and isn’t likely to get off the headlines until a bailout deal is struck or a final Greek exit decision is made. So even though the Greek debt crisis will likely…
The recent NFP report wasn’t far off the market estimates as 223K jobs were added back in June, albeit the overall it wasn’t too impressive with lower participation rate and no gain in wages. But for this week the main…