Opinion – Friday 9 July 2021

U.S. Equity Markets declined as Japan went back into a State of Emergency, ending the day lower, led again by the S&P which closed with a loss of 0.86%. This move lower saw the VIX surge 17%. Investors continued to rotate into the safety of bonds, pushing yields...

Opinion – Thursday 8 July 2021

U.S. Equity Markets reversed earlier losses to close higher, led by the S&P which closed at yet another new all-time high with a gain of 0.34%. Growth optimism led the way in the early morning, after reports that the St. Louis Fed’s second-quarter Gross...

Opinion – Wednesday 7 July 2021

U.S. Equity Markets had a volatile start to the new week, with the Dow leading the decline to close 0.60% lower, 200 points off its intra-day low, while the divergence increased as the NASDAQ 100 closed higher by 0.40%. Markets declined on little news. San Francisco...

Opinion – Tuesday 6 July 2021

U.S. Equity Futures Markets have fluctuated between gains and losses after Crude Oil trades to a new cycle high following the postponement of the OPEC Meeting yesterday. OPEC production levels will remain the same, pushing the price of Crude higher by 1.86% to $76.60...

Opinion – Monday 5 July 2021

U.S. Equity Markets rose on more strong jobs data, led by the NASDAQ 100 which ended Friday’s session with a gain of 1.15%. Non-Farm Payroll data showed that 850,000 jobs were added in June. That was higher than the Wall Street estimate and accelerated from...

Opinion – Friday 2 July 2021

U.S. Equity Markets rose on strong jobs data ending the day higher, led by the S&P which ended yesterday’s session at a new all-time high with a gain of 0.52%. Jobless Claims fell again and beat expectations after two straight weeks of increases. Jobless Claims...