The commodity sector found a fresh bid this past week as the intense and potentially price-negative focus on China Evergrande Group, and its ability to service its debt, faded. While industrial metals recovered on the fading China focus, a fresh spike in bond yields together with a firmer dollar hurt...

The market tried to slip back into full risk-on mode yesterday, but a huge rise in US treasury yields and sympathetic moves elsewhere at the long end of the curve reminds us how quickly the yield question can steal the spotlight when they are on the move. Next week looks...

Yesterday's BOE's hawkish tilt intimates that inflation is beginning to force central banks' hands into tighter monetary policies. The bond market is yet not pricing central banks' aggressive twists, making it vulnerable to abrupt selloffs. In the US, real rates continue to rise as breakeven rates remain stable. If this...

Nike posted strong Q1 earnings last night but revenue came in a bit lower and the sports retailer warned of margin pressure. Equities are turning lower today as Evergrande silence spooks investors. Nike has seen a phenomenal rebound in its business from the lows during the pandemic. Revenue in Q1...

Today features Saxo Chief Economist and CIO Steen Jakobsen as we look at the huge spike in longer US treasury yields yesterday and sympathetic moves in EU and UK yields and at what point rising long yields might disrupt an equity market on the comeback trail. We also look at...

Equity markets came storming back yesterday, retaking a key technical level in the US that was critical on the way down as the latest Evergrande news and a nominally more hawkish than expected Fed failed to hold the bulls back. Still, a new source of concern could be the sudden...