Year-over-year (YoY) dinner reservation data from OpenTable shows just how widely the pace of reopening in the U.S. varies by state. Reported daily, this high

This week’s big number is -1.33% —  the cumulative change in global short term interest rates, as set by each country’s central bank, since the

Is there a glimmer of hope among small businesses? The results of the NFIB Small Business Optimism Survey for April 2020 were released on Tuesday,

Now that the Federal Reserve has reached 0% for its target rate, we thought it would be interesting to look at what the market expected

Just how deep is the current slowdown? And how long before we work our way out of it? The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) released

Equities couldn’t make it a three-peat last week, falling 1.6% (MXWD) at the global level. But as has been the recent trend, domestic shares led

This week’s big number? 14.1% — the year-to-date total return spread between growth and value stocks, as represented by the S&P 500 Growth Total Return

Equities added to their recent gains, following their historic rally two weeks ago. U.S. markets led, with the S&P 500 up 3.1% (SPX). Emerging equities

Despite the 9.7 million barrels-per-day (mb/d) cut agreed to by the members of OPEC+, as rumored last week and finalized on Monday of this week,

Equities rebounded last week, with the U.S. market leading, up 12.1% (SPX). Foreign markets lagged, with International Developed up 8.1% (MXEA) and Emerging Markets up

By recent standards, equity markets had a quiet week last week. Emerging markets outperformed, down only 1.2% (MXEF), while International Development markets lagged, finishing down

Assets on the balance sheet of the Federal Reserve total $5.81 trillion USD as of the week ending April 1, 2020. That’s a 3-week change

Equities rally aggressively Equity market volatility continues as investors, who are now mostly working from home, grapple with the evolution of COVID-19 and government stimulus.

A truly shocking number of jobless claims were filed for the week ending March 21st  — 3.28 million. That’s the highest on record, dwarfing even

This week’s Big Number is 3-12-20 — the day S&P Dow Jones, one of the largest index providers in the world, reportedly made the decision

Largest weekly decline since 2008 Last week, the S&P 500 (SPX) sank by 15.0% — its largest weekly decline since October 2008. In the 22

That’s the 1-week realized volume in the S&P 500 (SPX). Last week was the most volatile week for equities since the Black Monday crash of