Market Overview

There is a popular meme that the government has an incentive to inflate, because the same debt is worth less in real terms at a higher price level. If inflation is high enough, then the government (it...

Sentiment is not bad for a week which confirmed that the Federal Reserve (Fed) won’t cut the interest rates anytime soon. Stocks rebounded and yields fell yesterday, the S&P 500 kept floor...

Hey traders!We experienced a busy and volatile trading session yesterday, particularly towards the end of the US trading hours when Powell highlighted a restrictive policy in the US. Notably, he...

Fed appears less hawkish than expectedDollar and Treasury yields pull backYen rallies on another round of suspected interventionWall Street trades cautiously ahead of NFPsFed is still leaning towards...

Gold Gained Strong Bullish Momentum After the Fed Press ConferenceGold (XAU) moved in a bullish trend on Wednesday, gaining 1.45% and almost recovering all the losses from the previous session. The...

The Fed meetings seem to create more confusion than needed, but it is what is what it is. I know that even though I wrote yesterday that at 2:35 PM ET, it was possible that we saw the usual FOMC press...

Most of the major asset classes retreated in April. The overall losses mark the worst month for global markets so far in 2024, based on a set of ETFs.The upside outliers last month were limited to...

Comfort is often the worst enemy of the economy. Recall the Dotcom Bubble in 2001, which threw most investors off after a sustained bull run in tech stocks. In the same century, the world was hit with...

In an op-ed for the Washington Post on November 5, 2010, Ben Bernanke did a victory lap, praising the Fed’s efforts in stemming the financial crisis. In the article, he discusses how QE and...

Fed meeting in the spotlight; equities under pressureDollar strength continues, could intensify if Fed appears hawkishQuestionable yen intervention result; more action over the next sessions?Bitcoin...

Gold Dropped as USD Strengthened In Anticipation Of The Fed's Interest Rate DecisionGold (XAU) moved within a bearish trend on Tuesday and lost 2.1%, while DXY gained 0.64%. Even lower-than-expected...

The S&P 500 was down about 1.6% heading into the FOMC meeting and Quarterly Refunding Announcement today. The VIX 1-Day was up 8.3 points to 18.10, which suggests much of the decline yesterday...

Mood among investors is not cheery into the Federal Reserve’s (Fed) latest monetary policy decision due later today. And it’s understandable. The Fed must respond to three straight month...

The value of modeling recession risk-based multiple indicators is a hardy perennial. The latest example comes by way of aggregating trends in the 50 US state economies for estimating the odds that an...