On November 3, 2021, Jerome Powell made it clear the Fed only cares about "stonk" prices - and here's how we see this as relevant to...
Some call it the accordion effect while others refer to it in terms of a bullwhip. Whatever the terminology, the supply chain mess has created a...
How Long Can Lies & Control Supplant Reality & Free Markets? Authored by Matthew Piepenburg via GoldSwitzerland.com, The facts of surreal yet broken (and hence increasingly controlled and...
The US dollar index (DXY) price held steady on Monday morning as investors continued to reflect on the Fed decision and strong non-farm payrolls (NFP) data....
It is one of the most important results to look for, a payroll cue which opens up the question to much bigger issues. A recession or...
October Payrolls Soar To 531K, Smashing Expectations As Prior Months Revised Sharply Higher After two months of dismal job reports, the BLS finally redeemed itself when...
The euro is down considerably in Thursday trade. Currently, EUR/USD is trading at 1.1550, down 0.53%. Earlier in the day, the euro fell to 1.1528, its...
Traders Steamrolled After Bank of England Flip-Flops, Leaves Rate Unchanged Defying Market Moments ago we asked whether the BOE will hike or won't hike, noting that...
Futures Hit Fresh All-Time Highs, Treasuries Rise On Post-Fed Euphoria US equity futures plowed on to record-er highs overnight, propped up by a slew of stellar...
The benchmark S&P 500 index hit a record high for the fifth consecutive session on Wednesday after the U.S Federal Reserve said it’ll start tapering later...
China Facing "Downward Pressure", Premier Warns With the Fed supposedly telegraphing that the US economy is strong enough to withstand a modest decline in the monthly...
S&P 500 Sets New Record By Surging 37% During Biden's First Year As President During the past year, since more than 150MM Americans voted in the...
History Warns The Fed Will Raise Interest Rates More, Not Less "Currently, the December 2019 Fed Funds futures contract implies that the Fed will reduce the...
Avis Budget Group Inc. stock (CAR) was up 215% yesterday morning before sellers pushed it lower. Despite decent selling pressure later in the day, it closed...
Bring on the tantrum. Forget this prevaricating, we should want and expect interest rates to get on with normalizing. It’s been a long time, verging to...
"Markets Are Just Going To Break In Some Parts" - One Bank Sees Bond Market Turmoil Shifting To Stocks As we noted earlier today, a huge...
The British pound has edged lower in the Tuesday session. GBP/USD is currently trading at 1.3625, down 0.28% on the day. Will BoE press rate trigger?...
There is no “decoupling”, at least there hasn’t been yet. Why would this time end up any different? The history of the term has itself changed...
Three main forces are shaping the business and investment climate: Surging energy prices, a dramatic backing up of short-term interest rates in Anglo-American countries, and the...
Key Events This Very Busy Week: Fed, Payrolls, Hiking Central Banks, PMIs And Much More Last week may have seen the peak of earnings season with...
Futures Meltup To New All Time High As November Begins With A Bang US futures and European stocks rose to a new record high to start...
The Canadian dollar has had an uneventful week, even though there was plenty of buzz in the financial markets over the BoC decision to end its...
Asian markets were handed a Wall Street hospital pass this morning as Apple and Amazon both missed quarterly earnings expectations in after-market announcements. Rising labour costs,...
There were no surprises in today’s US GDP data. As expected, output sharply decelerated, modestly missing much-reduced expectations. The continuously compounded annual rate of change for...
The Last Time Spending On Cars Was This Weak, Interest Rates Hit 17% While today's disappointing Q3 GDP print was generally weak across the board, with...
Loonie Soars After Bank of Canada Ends QE Early, Accelerates Rate Hike Timing To Mid-2022 Another day, another hawkish surprise from a developed central bank. While...
What is the Federal Reserve Hiding From Us? "The most inappropriate monetary policy that I've seen maybe in my lifetime."- Paul Tudor Jones on the Federal...
Walmart Recalls Aromatherapy Spray Due To Presence Of Rare And Deadly Bacteria The next time a new pandemic is needed to trigger trillions more in QE,...
UK Faces 'Plan B' Peril: COVID Multiplies The Economic Threat Authored by Bill Blain via MorningPorridge.com, “T’was the best of times, t’was the worst of times...
Something's got to give in the markets. And it may not take long before the next long term trend becomes apparent. The most reliable market indicator...