Opinion – Wednesday 6 November 2024

Tuesday was a risk-on-session on US election day with equities rallying with outperformance seen in the Russell 2000 while all sectors closed in the green. Consumer Discretionary alongside Industrials and Utilities led gains on the day, with Tech and Communications...

Opinion – Tuesday 5 November 2024

U.S. Equity Markets closed lower on Monday. Price action was primarily categorised as an unwind of the Trump Trade after weekend polls and betting markets showed Trump losing momentum vs Harris. Briefly recapping, a new Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll showed...

Opinion – Monday 4 November 2024

U.S. Equity Markets (SPX +0.4%, NDX +0.7%, RUT +0.6%, DJIA +0.7%) closed in the green and were boosted by the soft U.S. Payrolls Report and also Amazon (AMZN) (+6.2%) earnings impressing, despite Apple (AAPL) (-1.3%) disappointing. Briefly recapping payrolls, the...

Opinion – Thursday 31 October 2024

U.S. Equity Markets ultimately closed in the red but the NASDAQ 100 was the clear laggard as weakness in semis post-AMD (AMD) earnings offset strong Google (GOOGL) earnings. Semis were also hit after Ernst & Young announced it sent a letter of resignation to...

Opinion – Wednesday 30 October 2024

U.S. Equity Markets ultimately closed Tuesday mixed with notable outperformance in the NASDAQ ahead of key earnings, while the heavyweights printed notable gains (ex-TSLA) while Broadcom (AVGO) rallied on reports that the Company is developing an AI inference chip...

Opinion – Tuesday 29 October 2024

U.S. Equity Markets ultimately closed primarily in the green on Monday although the NASDAQ 100 gave up early gains as Tech sold off. The only sectors to close in the red were Tech and Energy, with the latter weighed on by tumbling crude prices in the aftermath of...