Market Overview

Since the beginning of March, the S&P 500 has been undergoing a nice consolidation, which passed between the day before yesterday and yesterday.However, the index did manage to hit the upper trend...

Both the Bank of England and the Federal Reserve held interest rates steady, with future cuts hinted at based on inflation progress.After today’s announcement by the Bank of England to hold key...

Investors were net sellers of fund assets (including those of conventional funds and ETFs) for the first week in four, redeeming a net $49.8 billion for the LSEG Lipper fund-flows week ended...

The second big surprise of the week came from the Swiss National Bank (SNB). The Swiss cut the interest rate by 25bp to 1.5% yesterday, in a surprise move, and became the first major central bank to...

The Federal Reserve lifted its outlook for core PCE inflation in 2024 but reaffirmed expectations that interest rates will probably fall by the end of the year. Despite the apparent conflict, the...

The Gold Price Sets a Record High on Dovish Fed StatementsThe gold (XAU) price surged by 1.33% on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve (Fed) maintained its previous projection of 3 rate cuts in...

The Federal Reserve (Fed) meeting went better than many expected. The Fed left interest rates unchanged as planned, but Chair Jerome Powell repeated that the rate cuts will begin ‘sometime this...

Four fairly quick observations on this Federal Reserve meeting day, not all of which have anything to do with the Fed:1. Mean Rate Cut Expectations DropThe FOMC today announced unchanged policy for...

The FED kept rates unchanged and essentially suggested 3 rate cuts on the table for 2024. Both the commodities and equities markets took that as a sigh of relief. SPY made new all-time highs and gold...

The sharp runup in US inflation in 2021-2022 revived the idea that a so-called real assets portfolio is crucial for asset allocation strategies.But with the peaking of inflation in mid-2022,...

The Fed added Quantitative Easing (QE) to its monetary policy toolbox in 2008. At the time, the financial system was imploding. Fed Chair Ben Bernanke bought $1.5 trillion U.S. Treasury and...

Markets are on edge ahead of the Federal Reserve’s latest policy meeting. I believe the Fed will lean hawkish with its messaging as inflation fears return. Contrary to the consensus view, there...

The gold (XAU) price declined by 0.13% on Tuesday as the U.S. dollar strengthened ahead of today's Federal Reserve's (Fed) policy rate decision. 'Gold is seeing some exhaustion to the upside as...