The Federal Reserve slowed the pace of its interest rate hikes by hiking 25 basis points meeting market expectations. The Fed also said that the battle against inflation is…
Macroeconomics
The Bank of Canada raised its key interest rate by 25 basis points to 4.50%. A move that was widely expected by markets. This is the eight consecutive time…
Goldman Sachs having the worst earnings miss in a decade provided hints of a weak economy given that the bank took a major hit in provisions for credit losses….
It’s happening! After warning readers throughout 2022 that the Bank of Japan is the most important central bank to be following, and that the Bank of Japan matters, markets…
The bond markets are referred to as, “the market that knows it all’. Well, this all knowing market is making a big prediction for 2023. This week has been…
The first week of the month means US employment data in the form of Non-farm payrolls (NFP). Employment data has been key as Fed chairman Jerome Powell last year…
The US stock markets are sliding in reaction to yesterday’s released FOMC minutes. Notes from the Fed’s meeting last month and gives us an idea on what voting members…
Seasonality. We traders and investors like to make some sense of the chaos and randomness seen in markets. One way to do so is by looking at seasonality, which…
The Federal Reserve seems to have disappointed investors. There was no ‘pivot’ as Fed chair Powell stays the course. There probabilities of a taper type dovish Fed increased as…
The highly anticipated November CPI has come out less than expected hinting at inflation cooling down. CPI, or inflation data, rose 0.1% from the previous month and increased 7.1%…