Hong Kong’s equity markets are finally waking upand the numbers speak for themselves. IPO and follow-on deal volume has surged to $26.5 billion so far in 2025, up from just $3.8 billion a year ago. That’s the highest total since 2021. Chinese giants are fueling the revival. CATL led with a $5 billion listing in…
U.S. futures were up this morning in early trading after the S&P 500 rose 2% on Thursday. That’s nice, but the broader global markets have spoken loud and clear ever since President Trump’s “Liberation Day” announcement on trade tariffs: Most Asian markets have performed way better than Western ones. Some, like Japan’s TOPIX, are even…
STORY: Trump, in his first term, was so focused on equity markets that “he might even change his public statements to try and support market levels,” Mulberry said. The S&P 500 rose more than 50% from the time Trump won the election in November of 2016 through the end of his first term. “Obviously, over…
Published: March 6, 2025 at 6:00 a.m. ET Investors got what they wanted on Wednesday — temporary tariff relief from the Trump administration that finally halted a two-day selloff that sent the stock market into a tailspin earlier this week. However, so-called reciprocal tariffs on foreign imports from all major U.S. trading partners are still coming in…
Published: March 3, 2025 at 5:02 p.m. ET U.S. stocks endured another serious setback on Monday as what one trader described as a tariff “tape bomb” from President Donald Trump caused the S&P 500 to tally its biggest daily drop in months. After a rocky month that saw the Nasdaq Composite COMP fall sharply from its…
Published: March 3, 2025 at 12:50 p.m. ET Options traders are bracing for a looming stock-market crash, the latest data from Cboe Global Markets show. A dispatch from Cboe Global Markets’ Mandy Xu, shared with MarketWatch on Monday, revealed that demand for deep out-of-the-money call options tied to the Cboe Volatility Index VIX — otherwise known…
Foreign investors could become more confident about equity markets in Hong Kong and mainland China if enhancements were made to the Stock Connect programme, a financial industry group said, amid a rally driven by hopes for a policy shift from Beijing and enthusiasm about innovation in the technology sector. Lyndon Chao, managing director of the…
Donald Trump warned he will impose 25 percent tariffs on imports of steel and aluminium (STR) Equities were mixed in Asia on Monday after Donald Trump ramped up his trade war by announcing huge tariffs on steel and aluminium imports and warned every country would face “reciprocal” levies. Another week got off to an uncertain…
Financial markets waited all week for the jobs data, and that data did not disappoint. Like in the Goldilocks tale, the jobs numbers weren’t too hot, nor too cold. They were just right! As a result, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq both closed a record high on Friday (December 6th). The S&P 500 was…
STORY: China equity markets returned from a week-long holiday Tuesday, and promptly soared to two-year highs. The blue-chip CSI300 index jumped 10% in early trade, before settling back around 6% up by midday. Shanghai’s benchmark Composite index gained only slightly less. Tech stocks were among the top performers, with an index for chip firms surging…