US equity futures and Asian shares are flat this morning with European shares treading water ahead of the ECB's policy meeting in which it’s expected to announce a tapering to its €60bn in monthly QE. On this busiest day of Q3 earnings season, companies set to report earnings include Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon and Intel, while we also get data on jobless claims and wholesale inventories.
Global stocks hit new all time highs overnight, with US stock-index futures, Asian and European stocks all rising overnight after the Senate adopted a fiscal 2018 budget resolution, paving the way for Trump's $1.5 trillion in tax cuts, while news that "dove" Jay Powell may be the next Fed chair added to the risk-on sentiment.
Authored by Soeren Kern via The Gatestone Institute,
Authored by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
If you’ve read my work over the past several weeks, you’ve probably noticed an increased fascination with secession/independence movements around the world.
I think we’re at the very early stages of this developing trend, which will see nation-states across the world fracture for a variety of reasons.
It's groundhog day as S&P futures, European and Asian shares all rise overnight, while the dollar is set to .