BoE raises rates by 0.25% The Bank of England raised rates by 0.25% today. The rate hike, the fifth in a row, brings the Bank Rate...
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...
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...
A Chaotic Tipping Point: Bill Blain Warns "We Are Spiralling Into Something Messy" Authored by Bill Blain via MorningPorridge.com, “The...
Black Monday: All Hell Breaks Loose As Stocks Plunge Into Bear Market, Curve Inverts, Cryptos Crater For all those claiming that stocks had...
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...
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...
Futures Drop As Yields Push Higher, Hawkish ECB Looms After yesterday's bizarro rally, US futures and European bourses dipped ending two days...
"Ticking Timebomb": 500,000 UK Small Businesses Could Imminently Go Bust As a stagflationary storm looms over the UK economy, the Federation...
Futures Jump, Tech Stocks Rally As Beijing Eases Covid Restrictions Global markets and US equity futures pushed sharply higher to start the...
An in-depth look at various currencies and their charts as well as observations on energy commodity prices and how they’re affected by world events.
Over the past several years, the London Stock Exchange and Wall Street have experienced contrasting fortunes. Until the first days of January this year,...
Ever since Brexit happened, the British pound gained against the common currency, the euro. Despite many analysts calling for the pound’s decline, it...
Futures Slide Before Fed Minutes, Dollar Jumps As China Lockdown Fears Return Another day, another failure by markets to hold on to even the...
Futures Slide As Snap Forecast Steamrolls Rebound Optimism It's not every day that a relatively small social media company (whose market cap...
Futures Jump After Biden Says Trump's China Tariffs Under Consideration US stock futures advanced for a second day after staging a furious...
12 Nightmarish Economic Trends That We Should Expect To See During The 2nd Half Of 2022 Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com, If...
Futures Slide After Dismal Target Earnings, Plunging Mortgage Apps The brief bear market rally in US stocks was set to end with a whimper...
The British pound rose to the highest point since May 5th after the positive UK jobs data. The GBP/USD pair rose to a high of 1.2480,...
Futures Jump Amid Optimism China's Covid Lockdowns Are Ending Another day, another dead cat-bouncing, bear market rally. After Monday's flattish...
It was another night of tail-chasing overnight, this time led by Goldman Sachs who said a US recession is a real possibility and that the US...
Futures Slide After China's "Huge" Data Miss Sparks "Broad-Based Recession Talk" Friday's bear market rally dead-cat bounce appears to be...
Last week Bitcoin lost over 20% of its value with a 10% drop on… The post Is this the beginning of the end or the end...
"Traditional" Vs "Disruptive" Portfolio Construction & Why It Matters So Much! Authored by Peter Tchir via Academy Securities, Most of...
(On vacation for the rest of the month. Going to Portugal. Commentary will resume on June 1. Good luck to us all.)The market is a fickle...
Futures Jump As Crypto Turmoil Fades, Dip Buyers Make Cautious Appearance After dropping to the edge of a bear market, with Eminis sliding...
Coffee Prices Jump As "Intense New Cold Front" Threatens Top-Producer Brazil Coffee futures in New York jumped Wednesday as new weather forecasts...
Slow-Motion Crash Drags Futures Below 3,900; Yields, Cryptos Tumble The relentless slow-motion crash sparked by the Biden Fed (which is hoping...
The blue-chip FTSE 100 closed 1.4% higher to record its best session in more… The post UK’s FTSE 100 ends higher as energy, mining shares rally...