The trading session in the U.S. closed with moderate losses following the August jobs report, which came in stronger than expected with 162,000 nonfarm payrolls and an unemployment rate that remained steady at 4.1%. The data raised the probability of a rate hike at the Fed’s September 16 meeting to just over 60%, up from...

Global markets closed lower after the United States and Iran exchanged attacks for the first time in nearly a month, with U.S. forces striking an island in the Strait of Hormuz and Iran responding with attacks on the United Arab Emirates and Jordan. Oil prices soared as...

A day of strong risk appetite in global markets, with the Nasdaq rising 1.6% and the S&P 500 0.7%, driven by Nvidia, which surged 8.5% after projecting revenue growth of approximately 70% for the next fiscal year, reinforcing the narrative that the AI investment cycle is far from...

The trading session in the U.S. closed with slight, mixed movements, as investors adopted a wait-and-see approach ahead of Nvidia’s after-hours earnings report—a key indicator of the state of the artificial intelligence sector. The Nasdaq rose 0.1% and the S&P 500 gained 0.1%, while the Dow Jones fell 0.1%. In Asia, the mood was more positive, with the Nikkei...

The global trading session was marked by a rally ahead of Nvidia’s earnings report, which snapped a seven-session losing streak ahead of Wednesday’s report. In the U.S., the Nasdaq rose 0.7%, the S&P 500 0.3%, and the Dow Jones 0.3%; overseas, the Nikkei gained 0.5%, the Kospi 0.7%, and the Stoxx...

The session got off to a cautious start in the U.S., where a sell-off in semiconductor stocks set the tone for the market; the Nasdaq fell 0.5% and the S&P 500 dropped 0.2%, while the Dow Jones posted a slight gain of 0.1%. The sell-off in chip stocks came days before Nvidia’s earnings report, after news broke that the...

U.S. consumer spending data came in worse than expected, causing a slight pullback in U.S. equities, with the Nasdaq falling 0.28% and the S&P 500 falling 0.20, along with a rise in interest rates of 2–5 basis points in the U.S. and up to 10 basis points in Europe. In commodities, crude oil rose 1.5% on average, while metals and agricultural commodities also rose.

Stocks fall as Brent crude tops $90 amid risks in the Middle East. Stocks followed bonds lower amid concerns that high oil prices could fuel inflation, as hopes for an agreement to end the war with Iran dim...

It was a mixed day in the U.S., with the major indices closing slightly lower: the Nasdaq fell 0.6%, the S&P 500 dropped 0.3%, and the Dow Jones declined 0.3%, while Europe (Stoxx 600) rose 0.2% and Asia closed mixed, with the Kospi up 0.7% and the CSI 300 down 0.8% (the Nikkei was flat). In the fixed-income market, we saw a bull...

The session was dominated by the verbal escalation between Trump and Iran over the Strait of Hormuz. Trump demanded compensation for victims of improvised explosive device attacks and extended the claim to include damage in Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and Gaza, dampening expectations of a quick agreement to reopen the waterway...

The week wraps up with the U.S. nonfarm payroll report taking center stage, showing that payrolls fell by 23,000 in July compared to the 80,000 the market had expected, following a combined downward revision of 103,000 jobs in May and June. The unemployment rate fell to 4.1%, though this was due to a lower labor force participation rate, and the...

This escalation of tensions between the U.S. and Iran led to a nearly 9% plunge in crude oil prices, with WTI closing at $81.94 and Brent at $87.81, triggering a bull flattening of global interest rates, with long-term yields falling more than short-term yields, compressing the yield curve’s slope, with declines of up to 4 bps in Europe and 3 bps at the long end of the...