This year is shaping up as a key test for buoyant commodity prices, and we expect a dynamic similar to the pre-pandemic one — with supply elasticity to overwhelm demand, on the back of advancing technology.

Rates as of 0500 GMT Market Recap Its hard to classify todays moves as riskon or riskoff or risky or whatever. The growthsensitive AUD was the 1 loser but the safehaven CHF was the 2. I think probably the main impetus was just positioncutting ahead of the long holiday weekend both Friday and Monday are […]

Singapores stock market is staging a strong comeback. The benchmark Straits Times Index ended 2020 as the worst performer in Asia, losing 11.8 through the year. But the STI climbed around 12.2 so far this year, and has become one of the regions top performers. The STI is a market capitalization weighted index that tracks […]

Family offices have grown in the U.S., but that segment remains lightly regulated and that could be a problem for the financial industry, warned a former counsel at the Securities and Exchanges Commission. The risks posed by large family offices came under the spotlight after the multibilliondollar Archegos Capital Management was last week forced to […]

LONDON, April 1 Reuters The pound was little changed against the dollar on Thursday and a touch lower versus the euro, but traders remained optimistic about its longerterm prospects, boosted by expectations for a vaccineled economic recovery in the UK. Sterling had its strongest quarter against the euro since 2015 in the first three months […]

Flexibility is emerging, but banks largely want employees back.

TOKYO, April 1 Reuters Yields on Japanese government bonds rose on Thursday after the Bank of Japan BOJ said it will reduce the amount and frequency at which it buys debt, reflecting monetary policy changes made last month. The BOJs buying of conventional JGBs will fall by about 9 to 5.9 trillion yen 53.32 billion […]

European stocks kicked off the new quarter with gains on Thursday, as optimism around a new U.S. government spending plan and strong factory activity data out of the euro zone eclipsed concerns about another lockdown in France. The panEuropean STOXX 600 index rose 0.5, hovering just 2 points below its alltime high. The benchmark ended […]

AMSTERDAM, April 1 Reuters Euro zone bond yields held ground on Thursday, having little reason to change direction in a balancing act between extended lockdowns, central bank support and data pointing to signs of economic recovery. France announced late on Wednesday it would widen lockdown measures to the entire country starting Saturday, in the latest […]

Exchange-traded funds continue to attract assets as investors look for cost-effective ways to gain exposure to the stock market.