It’s not recession fears, those are in the past. For much if not most (vast majority) of mainstream pundits and newsmedia alike, unlike regular folks...
Overview: Equities are higher and bonds lower as the week's activity winds down. Asia Pacific markets rallied, paced by more than 2% gains in Hong Kong...
Futures Rebound As Hopes Of Imminent Recession Spark "Bad News Is Good News" Reversal In a world where bad news is good news, and where the...
Futures, Oil Tumble As Attention Turns To Coming Recession, Powell Senate Testimony Tuesday's euphoric market mood has U-turned into sheer...
Gone in 60 Seconds was a movie released in 2000 starring Nicholas Cage who is charged with stealing 50 high-end cars in three days. It is...
Futures, Cryptos Surge As Dip Buying Turns Into "Nasty Squeeze" Following a relentless rout that erased nearly $2 trillion in market value...
There are around 180 currencies in the world, but only a very small number of them play an outsized role in international trade, finance, and central...
In "Stunning Blow", Macron Loses Absolute Majority As Far Right, Left Surge French President Emmanuel Macron was projected to suffer a "stunning...
The Age Of Divergence: Buy Dollars, Sell Europe Authored by Bill Blain via MorningPorridge.com, “Now I shall go far and far into the East,...
Futures Rebound, Yen Crashes To End Turbulent Week On $3.4 Trillion Quad-Witch Day Ending a rollercoaster - but mostly lower - week for risk...
Last Friday, after the latest inflation US data, everything seemed clear already: Higher-than-expected inflation in May would lead the Federal Reserve...
The post-FOMC rally ran in equities out of steam within 24 hours with Wall Street plummeting overnight once again. Even the most ardent FOMO gnome had...
Gasoline Demand Destruction Remains Elusive Despite Inflation By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com The Russian invasion of Ukraine sent...
EU 'Fragmentation' Eases As Details Of ECB Bailout Plan Leak While the Fed seemingly felt confident enough to aggressively hike rates this...
Wall Street up, US dollar down after Fed’s 0.75% hike Unless you were living on Mars, and even there they probably heard the news, the FOMC...
Markets Disappointed After ECB Concludes "Short On Detail" Emergency Meeting Update (8:40am ET): Some three hours after it started, the ECB...
Futures Rise As ECB Panics And Fed Looms After five days of non-stop losses, US index futures finally bounced modestly along with stocks...
Overview: Better than expected Chinese data and an unscheduled ECB meeting are the highlights ahead of the North American session that features the May...
Rate hikes weren’t even a twinkle in Chairman Powell’s eye, not really. Taper was barely on the table at that time, let alone double-taper or today’s...
Despite soaring inflation in Europe, hedges appear cheap
Stocks Stage Feeble Attempt At Dead Cat Bounce After Losing $1.3 Trillion In One Day US index futures staged a feeble, fading attempt to bounce...
Equity markets jittery, US dollar soars Things didn’t improve from Friday overnight in New York, as the market scrambled to price in a 0.75% by the...
Black Monday: All Hell Breaks Loose As Stocks Plunge Into Bear Market, Curve Inverts, Cryptos Crater For all those claiming that stocks had...
A market perpetually looking for reasons to temper Federal Reserve hiking expectations (so they can buy equities), had those quashed on Friday. US headline...
Three G7 central banks meet in the coming days, and they dominate the macro stage. The Federal Reserve's meeting concludes on Wednesday, the Bank of England...
The firmer than expected US CPI did not change expectations that the Federal Reserve will hike the Fed funds target by 50 bp on June 15. What...
Three G7 central banks meet in the coming days, and they dominate the macro stage. The Federal Reserve's meeting concludes on Wednesday, the Bank of England...
That’s the title I gave for an essay published in the Nikkei today: [Link to article] Here’s the text in English: Every decade, the debate...
Will a recession follow? It’s been a slow start to the month in financial markets but the ECB rate decision on Thursday finally got things moving...
The US inflation reading for May came in at 8.6% year-on-year, its highest pace since 1981, to send markets plummeting. Peter Schiff, Chief Executive Officer...