Opinion – Monday 22 July 2024

The equity slide continued on Friday with a global IT outage sparked by a CrowdStrike (CRWD) update weighing on sentiment while President Biden’s re-election chances continue to dwindle. T-notes also continued to slide with the 10 Year yield matching...

Opinion – Thursday 18 July 2024

Apart from the Dow, U.S. Equity Markets tumbled on Wednesday with tech and semis leading the weakness on Bloomberg reports that the US warned allies of stricter trade rules in a China chip crackdown, while ASML (ASML NA) provided weak Q3 guidance. US Presidential...

Opinion – Wednesday 17 July 2024

U.S. Equity Markets saw broad-based gains on Tuesday (SPX +0.6%, DJIA +1.9%) although the Nasdaq 100 (flat) underperformed and was weighed on by Nvidia (-1.6%) weakness, while the Russell 2000 (+3.5%) continued its surge higher, which also saw the regional banking ETF...

Opinion – Tuesday 16 July 2024

US indices closed Monday with upside bias (SPX & NDX +0.3%, DJIA +0.4%) while the small-cap Russell 2000 (+1.9%) continued its outperformance, with the highlights being the failed Trump assassination attempt, which has ultimately boosted his election chances, and...

Opinion – Monday 15 July 2024

U.S. Equity Markets ended Friday firmer, with outperformance in the small-cap Russell 2000 (+1.1%) which closed out the week with strong gains, although the SPX and NDX saw weakness into the close to settle off best levels. In the wake of the US PPI report, which was...

Opinion – Thursday 11 July 2024

U.S. Equity Markets pushed to fresh record highs again on Wednesday with outperformance in Tech leading the gains. Semiconductors were buoyed by strong TSMC (TSM) sales numbers while Apple (AAPL) caught a bid on reports it is to boost its iPhone 16 shipments. Fed...