Opinion – Wednesday 1 May 2024

U.S. Equity Markets closed lower on Tuesday with the surprise rise in the Q1 Employment Cost Index ramping the hawkish pressure on the Fed ahead of this evening’s Fed Meeting Statement and Fed Chair Powell’s press conference at 7.30 pm. There were kneejerk losses to...

Opinion – Tuesday 30 April 2024

U.S Equity Markets ended flat in choppy trade on Monday as Indices took pause from their recovery with a lack of major macro catalysts except for the Japanese Yen intervention. While there was no tier 1 data, we did get the US quarterly financing estimates ahead of...

Opinion – Monday 29 April 2024

U.S. Equity Markets saw strong gains on Friday (SPX +1%, NDX +1.7%) although that appeared mostly a big tech earnings story (GOOGL +10%, MSFT +2%) with the equal-weight S&P flat. The macro highlight was the March Core PCE, +0.32% M/M versus 0.3% expected, which...

Opinion – Thursday 25 April 2024

U.S. Equity Markets Stocks were choppy on Wednesday with NASDAQ outperformance after a short squeeze on TSLA (+11%) post-earnings as investors await more big tech earnings reports. However, post the cash market close, META stock is down 15% post earnings send both the...

Opinion – Wednesday 24 April 2024

U.S Equity Markets continued their rally after the slump seen last week. The majority of the upside was sparked after the soft US PMI data with some cautious commentary on the labour market supporting the dovish move. As a result, the Dollar sold off throughout the...

Opinion – Tuesday 23 April 2024

U.S. Equity Markets managed to claw back some of the prior week’s losses, with a rebound in Nvidia (NVDA) shares and in Semi-Conductors supportive of the move, underpinning technology outperformance. Elsewhere gold and oil prices were lower on a lack of...