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It was a week full of drama. Yet, the biggest surprise was not the U.S. elections. Rather, the unexpected collapse in volatility in the days that followed that spurred a sharp global equity market rally. This happened despite the uncertainty that still...

This past week is one we would like to forget. Volatility jumped meaningfully higher and stocks sold off in the worst week for global equity markets since the end of March, when the pandemic was in its infancy. The second wave of Covid continues to spread...

Markets were relatively unchanged over the past week with investors coming to terms with the low likelihood of an imminent U.S. stimulus package as well being focused on the spread of the coronavirus. This week also marked the official start to the earnings...

Some semblance of calm returned over the past week. This was a welcome reprieve from the commotion that surfaced over a week ago. While the health of U.S. government officials was still in focus, investors were quick to turn their attention to the on...

Markets were set to finish the week higher until the revelation that U.S. President Donald Trump, and the First Lady Melania Trump, had tested positive for the coronavirus. This development adds yet another source of near-term uncertainty as investors...

Weakness in global markets has continued to persist. A laundry list of items were to blame this week, including a number of U.S. monetary policymakers who pleaded for Congress to pass more fiscal stimulus, concerns over the potential of a contested U...

Global equity markets experienced some jitteriness over the past week, following through on some of the weakness that began the week before. We provide a bit more colour on the recent action and address the growing importance of the technology sector...

It was an eventful week from a news flow perspective, particularly in the United States, though much of it had little to do with the economy or markets. Another violent incident involving law enforcement and a black man in the U.S. rekindled the strong...

It’s been a tale of two stories the past few weeks. On the one hand, concerning coronavirus trends across key hotspots and new localized outbreaks in some countries. On the other hand, resilient markets which appear to believe that, for now, the worst...