Market Comment | Equity indices and the USD gained some steam in a low-volume context
Published on Tuesday, August 22, 2017
Market Comment | Equity indices and the USD gained some steam in a low-volume context
Summary
Calm continued in financial markets waiting for the annual Jackson Hole Symposium in a low-trading-volume context. Volatility in equity markets continued to recede (VIX: 12% after last week’s spike which drove it to 16%) as the uneasy calm in the geopolitical field (US- North Korea) persisted. As a result, sovereign yields inched up, equity indices […]
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