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After the record-setting first half of the year, the second half started with a surge for equity indexes. Jack Bouroudjian breaks down why we should watch fund flows and why the traditionally slow summer months could be more active this year. The post Market Update: Summertime Surge appeared first on OpenMarkets. Source: CME Open Markets - Market Update: Summertime Surge
After the record-setting first half of the year, the second half started with a surge for equity indexes. Jack Bouroudjian breaks down why we should watch fund flows and why the traditionally slow summer months could be more active this year. The post Market Update: Summertime Surge appeared first on OpenMarkets. Source: CME Open Markets - Market Update: Summertime Surge
In almost every industry today, effective decision-making depends on having the right data. You can see the evidence in the race to disseminate business analytics. Google, Salesforce and other major firms are investing heavily in getting customers new, reliable data faster and more efficiently. The needs are especially present in financial services. Investors, researchers and risk managers are looking for market data delivered as quickly as possible – everything from futures prices to satellite images of Midwestern crops. As technology rapidly evolves, the way exchanges deliver data to clients has evolved as well. Snail Mail to Click-Through Data In just a few short years, CME Group’s Data Services business has undergone a transformation. In 2016, we were shipping physical hard drives off manual extracts from our data warehouse. Now, customers order online, agree to a click-through license, enter their credit card, and select from several delivery methods (none of which...
Jack Bouroudjian explains how the first half of the year was record-breaking in equity markets. He then examines how major news stories like trade may influence the appetite for risk as we enter the second half of the year. The post Market Update: Looking Ahead to The Second Half appeared first on OpenMarkets. Source: CME Open Markets - Market Update: Looking Ahead to The Second Half
In almost every industry today, effective decision-making depends on having the right data. You can see the evidence in the race to disseminate business analytics. Google, Salesforce and other major firms are investing heavily in getting customers new, reliable data faster and more efficiently. The needs are especially present in financial services. Investors, researchers and risk managers are looking for market data delivered as quickly as possible – everything from futures prices to satellite images of Midwestern crops. As technology rapidly evolves, the way exchanges deliver data to clients has evolved as well. Snail Mail to Click-Through Data In just a few short years, CME Group’s Data Services business has undergone a transformation. In 2016, we were shipping physical hard drives off manual extracts from our data warehouse. Now, customers order online, agree to a click-through license, enter their credit card, and select from several delivery methods (none of which...
Jack Bouroudjian explains how the first half of the year was record-breaking in equity markets. He then examines how major news stories like trade may influence the appetite for risk as we enter the second half of the year. The post Market Update: Looking Ahead to The Second Half appeared first on OpenMarkets. Source: CME Open Markets - Market Update: Looking Ahead to The Second Half
There has always been a contrasting yet complimentary relationship between U.S. equities and the Bond market, and I believe there always will be. In addition, one typically leads the other and that leadership continues to be debatable from market cycle to market cycle. Therefore, decades of market cycles have taught us that typically when stock prices go up, bond prices go down. In other words, bonds and stocks have an inverse relationship. If someone were fully invested, they would most likely have to sell one in order to buy the other. This periodically can create volatility. The relationship between stocks and bonds can be tumultuous at times but, the two have always found a way to live together. Risk On, Risk Off To better understand Treasuries, it is important to recognize that the relationship between treasury prices and yields of treasuries is an inverse one. When bond prices are falling...
Jack Bouroudjian discusses the reconstitution of the Russell 2000 index, and how that might affect other equity indexes in the weeks ahead. He also touches on what the appetite for risk might be heading into the third quarter. The post Market Update: Russell Reconstitution appeared first on OpenMarkets. Source: CME Open Markets - Market Update: Russell Reconstitution
There has always been a contrasting yet complimentary relationship between U.S. equities and the Bond market, and I believe there always will be. In addition, one typically leads the other and that leadership continues to be debatable from market cycle to market cycle. Therefore, decades of market cycles have taught us that typically when stock prices go up, bond prices go down. In other words, bonds and stocks have an inverse relationship. If someone were fully invested, they would most likely have to sell one in order to buy the other. This periodically can create volatility. The relationship between stocks and bonds can be tumultuous at times but, the two have always found a way to live together. Risk On, Risk Off To better understand Treasuries, it is important to recognize that the relationship between treasury prices and yields of treasuries is an inverse one. When bond prices are falling...
Jack Bouroudjian discusses the reconstitution of the Russell 2000 index, and how that might affect other equity indexes in the weeks ahead. He also touches on what the appetite for risk might be heading into the third quarter. The post Market Update: Russell Reconstitution appeared first on OpenMarkets. Source: CME Open Markets - Market Update: Russell Reconstitution
