Rig counts are improving throughout North American production bases. Oil prices are up, as is natural gas. Is a strong week ahead for both commodities? Oil trading Oil started the week with WTI was trading at roughly $66.80, whereas Brent was around $70.00, putting it on a strong footing. Rig counts have jumped up in […]

Remember when we used to get up and the first thing, we would do was check what Trump had tweeted overnight? Those were fun times, contending with ‘Trumpremia’.

We see some relief early doors for Europe but global equity markets are still rocking, with boards lit up red as investors manage risk in the face of China’s coronavirus outbreak. There are no signs of this letting up – but at least market expectations have shifted markedly since the middle of last week to […]

The passage of the Tax Cut and Jobs Act (“TCJA”) in December 2017 lowered the US federal corporate income tax rate to 21% from 35%. This recent decline in tax rate has been a major contributing factor to profit growth for US companies. For example, S&P Global found that, since the TCJA was enacted, the […]

Robert Holzmann, a member of the European Central Bank (ECB) and the governor of the Austrian central bank said on Wednesday that there is plenty of space for further interest rate hikes following the ECB’s planned July and September raises, CNBC reported. “We will have to make an assessment where the economic development is going […]