At time of writing the US stock markets are green for the day in an attempt to end four red days in a row. However, the green is slowly…
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In Q1 2024 everything was moving up on interest rate cut bets. Q2 2024 has started off sour. It seems rate cut hopes keep getting pushed down further. The…
Recent price action on US stock markets indicated that investors were expecting a dovish Fed. In fact, we have already discussed the major shift in Fed Fund Futures probabilities…
With the recent events in the middle east, many traders and investors were curious to see how stock markets would open. Maybe a surprise to some, but stock markets…
As has been the case in recent months, US consumer price index (CPI) data have been highly anticipated. This is due to the market moving narrative of the Federal…
Global stock markets are rattled on the sharp drop of Credit Suisse shares. The stock was at one point down nearly 25% re-igniting banking fears. Is there trouble at…
Catastrophe averted? That’s what the media is saying after the US Government and regulators stepped in to backstop depositors with money at Silicon Valley Bank. This was the second…
Inflation kicked off higher to start 2023 with January 2023 CPI coming in higher than expected. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 0.5% in January, translating to an annual…
Things changed Friday. A couple of charts indicated a shift. Fundamentally, the blowout US non-farm payrolls employment took analysts by surprise. Last week, Jerome Powell did say the Fed…
As per usual for the first Friday of every month, the markets were anticipating the US Non-Farm Payrolls (NFP) employment numbers. This data has always been important, but its…