global macro

I read an article recently, in which a journalist was reporting on a piece of simple financial advice from American billionaire Mark Cuban. When asked what one should...

Welcome to Charts and Caffeine - Livewire's pre-market open news and analysis wrap. We'll get you across the overnight session and share our best insights to get you...

Welcome to Charts and Caffeine - Livewire's pre-market open news and analysis wrap. We'll get you across the overnight session and share our best insights to get you...

They say that numbers don't lie - but no one ever said that numbers can't be confusing. The signals for a global recession have been mixed, to say the least. On the...

Welcome to Charts and Caffeine - Livewire's pre-market open news and analysis wrap. We'll get you across the overnight session and share our best insights to get you...

Inflation is the buzzword of our present time in the markets - and with good reason. After years of central banks suggesting that price rises would be transitory and...

Welcome to Charts and Caffeine - Livewire's pre-market open news and analysis wrap. We'll get you across the overnight session and share our best insights to get you...

Emerging Market Equity Technicals: Today we’re focusing on the local currency version of the MSCI EM index. This is so we can see what is going on in the underlying...

Well, we made it. What a 12 months it's been on financial markets. It started with global markets closing (ad nauseum, it seemed) at record highs. It ends with fears...

Welcome to Charts and Caffeine - Livewire's pre-market open news and analysis wrap. We'll get you across the overnight session and share our best insights to get you...

In the first episode of Signal or Noise, we discussed the big economic and macro issues that are affecting investment decisions right now. If you missed that chat, you...

Calls of a US recession are getting louder, particularly in the US, amid a 40-year high for inflation and a worsening outlook for employment. The situation in...

Given stubbornly high U.S. inflation and the Federal Reserve’s apparent determination to bring it down, I now foresee a U.S. recession within the next 12...

Politics and economics are two subjects that go hand in hand. For Jeremy Lawson, head of the research institute and chief economist at abrdn, it forms the backbone of...

Welcome to a special macro-focussed edition of Charts and Caffeine - our daily markets wrap featuring the best charts and reads from across Livewire's team of expert...

It may have been the federal election that captured the spotlight at home over the past several weeks. For investors, it will be the other E word that will become...

Over the past two and a half years, global inflation markets have gone from shot to prominence for investors, as global lockdowns switched to global re-openings fueled...

The Weekly S&P500 ChartStorm is a selection of 10 charts that I handpick from around the web and post on Twitter. The purpose of this post is to add extra colour and...

Credit Spreads vs Lending Standards: The latest Fed loan officer survey (which asks banks whether they are making it easier/harder for people to get a loan), showed...

Global Markets Higher bond yields and oil prices caused global equities to remain on the defensive last week, with further hawkish talk from the Federal Reserve,...