Market Overview

Surging US retail sales dampen Fed rate cut expectations Wall Street sinks, dollar scales fresh highs as yields jump China GDP beat offers only tepid support as March data disappointsYen continues to...

Geopolitical Concerns Drive Gold Higher Despite the Strong US Dollar The gold (XAU) price rallied by 1.67% on Monday even though stronger-than-expected retail sales data lowered the probability of an...

Stocks finished the day sharply lower for a second day in a row, with the S&P 500 dropping by 1.2% and the NASDAQ dropping by 1.65%. The S&P 500 opened higher, but the selling started around...

A stronger-than-expected retail sales data from the US cemented the idea that the US economy remains too strong for the Federal Reserve (Fed) to cut the rates in summer. Retail sales jumped 0.7% in...

Gold’s huge-volume reversal is definitely THE news that got the spotlight last week. What does it mean?Gold’s Final Top?It most likely means that “this is it”. This was the final top for the price of...

Artificial intelligence (AI) and Bitcoin were top of mind at last week’s Paris Blockchain Week, where I had the privilege of presenting to an enthusiastic crowd. The blockchain and digital...

In the wake of last week’s hotter-than-expected consumer inflation data for March, the implied forecast via Fed funds futures indicates that interest-rate cuts are unlikely in the months ahead. Using...

Markets steady after Israel and allies intercept Iranian missiles and dronesHopes of no further escalation in conflict lift equities, oil slips But gold and dollar hold near highs Yen at fresh 34-year...

Gold Rallies on Safe-Haven Demand but Fails to Hold Above 2,400 On Friday, the gold (XAU) price surged above 2,400 but lost most of the gains in the American session and declined by 0.39%. As tensions...

The retraction of global markets on Friday and this morning in Asia and Europe are rational risk-rebalancing moves, considering that the heartbreaking events in the Middle East present the potential...

Risk appetite is better this Monday morning than it was last Friday when the world was bracing for the Iranian retaliation on Israel. Iran fired more than 300 drones and missiles on Israel on Saturday...

Last weekend the title of the Daily was: Economic Modern Family-Warning Signs End of Week. At the time the theory was: “Looking at the 6 weekly charts, I updated the horizontal, parallel lines to show...

by Jack Fischer During LSEG Lipper’s fund-flows week that ended April 10, 2024, investors were overall net redeemers of fund assets (including both conventional funds and ETFs) for the third week in...

CPI numbers due in the UK, Japan, Canada and New Zealand China to also come into the spotlight as Q1 GDP eyedUS retail sales to kickstart the week as earnings season gets underwayCPI figures to...