Opinion – Thursday 11 December 2025

Both U.S. Indices and Treasuries ended Wednesday with gains, while the Dollar was sold after a surprisingly dovish FOMC and Powell press conference (summary below). Briefly recapping, the Fed cut rates by 25bps to 3.5-3.75%, as expected, but in a dovish 9-3 vote split...

Opinion – Wednesday 10 December 2025

U.S. Indices chopped on Tuesday as eyes turn to the FOMC on Wednesday but the Russell outperformed while Dow Jones lagged. Dow weakness ensued after JPM’s Lake gave some Q4 guidance – IB revenue up low-single digits, and markets revenue up low teens. This...

Opinion – Tuesday 9 December 2025

U.S. Indices closed lower on Monday, with all sectors but Technology in the red. Communications and Consumer Discretionary were the worst performers, the former weighed by downside in Alphabet (GOOGL, -2.3%) and Netflix (NFLX, -3.4% due to an attractive all-cash PSKY...

Opinion – Monday 8 December 2025

U.S. Indices ultimately finished Friday’s session with an upward bias, with SPX, NDX and DJI closing green, but the Russell 2000 lagged and closed lower. Sectors were also mixed. Communication, Tech and Consumer Discretionary led the gains, while Utilities, Health...

Opinion – Thursday 4 December 2025

U.S. Indices trended higher throughout Wednesday’s session, but Futures were knocked on reports in the Information that Microsoft (MSFT) is lowering AI software quotas as multiple sales teams failed to hit quotas for AI product sales last year, which hit MSFT and...

Opinion – Wednesday 3 December 2025

U.S. Indices closed the day in the green with outperformance in the NASDAQ, while Industrials, Tech and Communications outperformed. There were several developments on AI, with OpenAI declaring a “code red” for workers to shift focus to improve ChatGPT in...