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Leaders of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) predict their local economy could have zero growth in 2025. This is a downgrade from previous GDP growth to 0% from 3% initially.
Capital goes to the side of the fence where the grass is greener. And if good Chinese companies are forced out of the U.S., suddenly the clover in Europe and Japan will be six feet high.
Recently, the trend toward deglobalization has been accelerated by a push to reinvent the global trading system on the part of the Trump administration.
In this brief market report, we will take a look at the various asset classes, sectors, equity categories, ETFs, and stocks that moved the market higher, as well as the market segments that defied the trend by moving lower.
With trade policies shifting by the day, little clarity given from the US administration, and rising tensions between the president and the Federal Reserve, it’s no surprise that stocks have been reeling. Yet one sector has been resilient—insurance.
After a volatile couple of weeks in which stocks fluctuated wildly, things seemed to have settled down a bit this week, although the major indexes finished mostly lower.
Amidst the volatility swirling around equity markets recently, it could be easy to forget about earnings. But the numbers for Q1 2025 are rolling in nevertheless. Phillips 66 has now seen the largest revision of any firm in the S&P 500 Index.
Two more tariff announcements, one on port fees, the other on China isolation, were added and removed. Trump claims he has all the cards. His actions show otherwise.
Are gold’s outperformance and long-term potential of any real value to an investor? The answer -- and this might shock you -- is an emphatic “no.” Here’s why.
On April 17, Chagee, a Chinese tea beverage brand, officially commenced trading on the Nasdaq stock exchange, becoming the first Chinese tea beverage company to be listed in the United States.
Wall Street has exhibited heightened volatility in recent weeks. Jerome Powell’s recent warnings about severe economic consequences of escalating tariffs have also heightened volatility. Low-volatility ETFs may look appealing in such an environment.
Investors can't be blamed for feeling a little better about things these days, especially when compared with where the S&P 500 was two short weeks ago. However, there are big questions that still need to be answered before one can be optimistic.
As markets continue to weigh tariff and trade risks, investors should continue to protect assets and remain alert to potential trading opportunities. Diversified and global explorer stocks appear to be doing well, including DBS Group Holdings Ltd.
Here is a short look at the 7 largest companies by market capitalization as of Saturday, April 19, 2025. Additionally, I have included the percentages of their gains on a year-to-date basis. Let's dive into the numbers.
What has Wall Street been buzzing about this week? Here is a quick look at the top 5 buy calls and the top 5 sell calls made by Wall Street's best analysts during the trading week of April 14-17, 2025.
When overall risk-off sentiment and positioning are at levels normally coincident with market bottoming processes, the technical indicators have also become so risk-off that they signal risk-on behavior.
Previous burst bubbles spawned bigger bubbles necessary for system reflation – collapsing telecom debt and junk bonds were supplanted by a much bigger boom in mortgage credit.
The Trump administration are clearly trying to reshape the global trading order, but it is, well, uncertain what it will look like when they are finished.
With the national debt soaring past $33 trillion and future obligations exceeding $100 trillion, America would need to avoid a financial crisis where prices skyrocket out of control.
The geopolitical conditions do make a lot of sense for gold to continue higher, as there are a lot of tariffs, tensions, and of course, concerns about geopolitics.
A sector-based ETF portfolio provides an effective way to navigate these market rhythms, allowing investors to position their assets for potential outperformance.
Manufacturing activity plunging, prices paid higher. The Philly region of the Federal Reserve may be providing an early peek at what stagflationary pressures will look like across the U.S. goods economy.
As expected, the ECB cut its three main rates by 25bps for a 7th consecutive time (deposit facility, the main refinancing operations and the marginal lending facility will be decreased to 2.25%, 2.40% and 2.65% respectively).
As U.S. tariffs and new export restrictions weigh on tech sentiment, both stocks are down sharply this year. Year to date, NVDA and AMD stocks have plunged 22.2% and 27%, respectively.
On Wednesday, we saw that there was a lot of front-running by consumers, especially buying cars, in March. And we also saw yesterday that there has been no uptick in layoffs. That’s what it looks like this week.
The US current account deficit reflects the discrepancy between domestic saving and domestic investment. The US is not “forced” to run a deficit, even with the dollar serving as an international reserve currency.
Total permits increased 23,000 on an annualized basis to 1.482 million, while the less volatile single family permits number declined -20,000 to 978,000.
The main risk to this seasonal view is a renewed policy shock that reinforces tariff fears or disrupts global copper supply chains — keeping U.S. copper futures bid.
Nvidia, with a $2.5 trillion market cap, faces a more difficult growth trajectory than Advanced Micro Devices, which has a significantly smaller market cap of $140 billion.
OpenAI o3 has crossed a threshold where it’s both solving pre-defined problems and beginning to understand how to approach problems in the first place.
