Flood Helping Ukraine Emerging markets are gaining as mature markets look risky.
More Serious Matters Wall Street fell on new worries about inflation and a drop in retail sales levels.
Boxing Day Finance Today we saw the Dow Jones move up over 36,000.
Friday Markets Coverage Today markets are suffering alongside Austria which locked down against Covid-19 again.
Markets: A Jump In Oil Prices There is nothing that beats a jump in oil prices for taking markets higher. China imposed curbs on its power companies not only to go green, but because its economic growth is slackening, so western energy companies got a boost.
China's Rescue Of Evergrand The number of jobless last week was higher than the forecast, at 351,000 vs 320,000. The recovery is lagging.
Pressure Day Today a recovery came to markets with a particular impact on uranium shares.
Full News Day The US greatly increased its exports of liquified natural gas in the first half-year, to 9.6 billion cubic feet per day, a rise of 42% from a year earlier.
Dialing For Stocks Thanks to Fed Chairman Powell, markets brushed off worrying about inflation today.
Selloff Round 3 Stocks fell across the board in foreign countries, except for Britain which was upbeat.
Lots Of Deal News Today Didi, a Chinese ride-hailing stock is doing its IPO reportedly at above the level projected in its application.
Dreary Day Another dreary day and a renewed boost for cryptocurrency - and away from the classic inflation hedge, gold.
Happy Friday The inflation risk is being ignored by the US market now that there will probably not be a tax increase and may be higher prices for longer.
Juvenile Investing Mob Tech stocks did well in Europe but not in the US. The data are unconvincing.
A Better Switch Today the US market decided to rise because President Biden is pondering not linking his infrastructure project to a corporate tax increase.
More Inflationary Pressures Today, we saw more evidence of worrying inflationary pressures from the personal consumption index hitting 3.1% in April over prior April, up sharply from the March rise of 1.9%.
