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Covid-19: Economic Damage and Central Banks Decisions
By Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets Amid a busy economic calendar, the fears of a second wave of coronavirus are mounting forcing market participants to look for some evidence of a reversal or stalling in the improvement of economic data seen in ...
Read MoreWeek Ahead: FOMC and Quarterly Earnings from Apple, Alphabet, Amazon and Facebook.
By Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets It will be another busy week ahead with investors gearing up for virus updates, geopolitical tensions, key economic data and the FOMC meeting. The global number of coronavirus cases crossed 16 million this week...
Read MoreVaccine Optimism and Geopolitical Tensions
By Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets It was another eventful week with many dominant headlines that create an atmosphere of indecisiveness. We started the week with promising vaccine updates from AstraZeneca. Interim results from the ongoing Phase...
Read MoreVaccine Optimism and Earnings
By Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets Virus Cases, Vaccine and Geopolitical Tensions It was an eventful week with many dominant headlines that took the markets on a wild swing. The week kicked off with the news that Pfizer and BioNTech granted FDA f...
Read MoreWeek Ahead: Earnings Season
By Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets Earnings Season It will be a busy week with investors gearing up for a new earnings season while still keeping track of the rising number of virus cases and the dominant geopolitical risks. On the economic front...
Read MoreThe Pandemic and Geopolitical Risks
By Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets Virus Cases Continue to Surge Earlier this week, the WHO warned that “the outbreak is accelerating and we have clearly not reached the peak of the pandemic”. There have now been 12.4 million cases of COVID-1...
Read MoreWeek Ahead: COVID-19: Crucial Days Ahead
By Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets The World Health Organization reported a one-day high for global cases Saturday of 212,326. Investors will likely continue to evaluate the improving economic data, positive vaccine developments, massive fiscal ...
Read MoreReversals of Lockdown Easings?
By Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets Reversals of Lockdown Easings? With more than 10 million coronavirus cases and half a million deaths over the weekend, rising fears of a second wave of virus infections may rattle the markets this week if the mo...
Read MoreWeekly Summary: Rising Virus Cases and Volatile Trading
By Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets Rising Virus Cases As of writing, the number of coronavirus cases worldwide has passed 9.7 million and is expected to reach 10 million by the end of this week as per the World Health Organisation. Europe and the...
Read MoreWeekly Summary: Rising Virus Cases and Growing Fears of a Second Wave
By Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets Rising Virus Cases It was a week of uncertainty amid the rise of coronavirus cases in certain US states and Beijing. New Zealand has also recorded three more active COVID-19 cases days after announcing the eradi...
Read MoreWeekly Summary: A Bloodbath in the Stock Market
By Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets Governments and central banks supportive policies and coronavirus updates remain the primary factors that are driving risk sentiment in the financial markets. It was a Fed-centric week while fears of a second o...
Read MoreWeekly Summary: Recovery Hopes and More Stimulus
By Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets The Positives Investors were broadly focused on the positives this week. Despite the deteriorating relationship between two of the world’s most powerful economies, which has the potential to turn into a new ...
Read MoreWeek Ahead: Trumpolitics, Central Banks and Nonfarm Payrolls
By Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets Trumpolitics Markets dissected President Trump’s remarks on actions against China on Friday. A key takeaway from those remarks was that the US President did not mention the Phase One trade deal between the US ...
Read MoreThe Reopening Experiment and Geopolitical Risks
By Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets The Grand Reopening Given the unprecedented nature of the Great Lockdown, the gradual reopening of economies are now being viewed as an experiment. World leaders are faced with tough decisions trying to manage...
Read MoreWeek Ahead: Reopening Economies vs ‘New Cold War’
By Deepta Bolaky @DeeptaGOMarkets In the middle of a pandemic, the world’s two most powerful economies are embroiled in a series of clashes which could take both countries to the brink of a “new cold war”. The latest fallout is about Chin...
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