How can you just leave me standing? Alone in a world so cold? (World so cold) Maybe I’m just too demanding Maybe you’re just like my mother She’s never satisfied (She’s never satisfied) This is what it sounds likeWhen doves cry Janet Yellen could not have been more doveish yesterday. In what was effectively a…
Corporate profits dropped eight percent in the fourth quarter of 2015, most of the decline coming from petroleum and coal products. In fact, that sector’s profits were not only down; they turned from black ink to red ink in a single quarter. Without petroleum’s misfortune, corporate profits would have edged down only 1.7 percent. The remainder…
USD/JPY The USD/JPY pair initially rallied during the course of the session on Tuesday, but turned back around to form a massively red candle. We are testing the 112.50 level below, which of course has been somewhat important recently. If we break down below there, we could go as low as the 111 handle, which…
Greetings, Once again we begin with the United States where the Fed Chair Janet Yellen struck a decisively dovish tone. Here is the key paragraph from her speech on Tuesday. Source: FRB She is basically saying that there is no rush to raise rates because the Fed has plenty of room to hike if inflation picks…
U.S. companies added 200,000 jobs last month (seasonally adjusted), according to this morning’s update of the ADP Employment Report. Although March’s gain was slightly below the previous month’s increase, today’s release suggests that the year-over-year trend for private-sector job creation is settling in to a low-2% trend–a pace that’s strong enough, if sustained, to keep the US…
At the end of the day, it was all about the dollar. Starting March 18, the Bloomberg Dollar Spot had risen as much as 1.9% as Fed officials including Lacker, Williams and Bullard noted upside risks on rate-hike projection and suggested a rate hike may be imminent as soon as April. And then Yellen unleashed…
You’d think with all the geopolitical crises and a weak world economy that market fear and volatility would be high. Instead, over the last month or so, we’ve seen a few fits and starts in the equity markets, but stock indices are still sitting close to all-time highs. When the Fed raised rates last December,…
State Street agrees to acquire GE Asset Management for $485M State Street (STT) announced that it has agreed to acquire GE Asset Management, an asset manager from GE (GE). The transaction is expected to increase SSGA’s assets under management by approximately $100B upon closing and add new alternatives capabilities, while strengthening existing fundamental equity and…
State Street agrees to acquire GE Asset Management for $485M State Street (STT) announced that it has agreed to acquire GE Asset Management, an asset manager from GE (GE). The transaction is expected to increase SSGA’s assets under management by approximately $100B upon closing and add new alternatives capabilities, while strengthening existing fundamental equity and…
200K private sector jobs were created in March, slightly better than expected. However, there was a downwards revision for February: 205K instead of 214K reported. The dollar is marginally stronger. The ADP Non-Farm Payrolls report was expected to show a gain of 194K private sector positions in March, slightly under the 214K seen in February (before revisions)….
