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U.S. Indices closed lower on Wednesday, with the NASDAQ underperforming as the tech sector was sold. The sector was hit by reports by the FT that Oracle’s (ORCL) USD 190 billion Michigan data centre deal is in limbo after funding talks with Blue Owl (OWL)...
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U.S. Indices closed lower on Tuesday, in a choppy session, beginning in the US morning in futures after delayed US data. Recapping, the US November payrolls report headline came in at above expected, with the Unemployment Rate jumping to 4.6% from 4.4%, with some of...
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U.S. Indices closed lower on Monday with the Russell and NASDAQ lagging while sectors were predominantly firmer with Health Care, Utilities and Consumer Discretionary outperforming, but Tech, Energy and Communication lagged with tech still pressured after the ORCL and...
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U.S. Indices closed lower on Friday, paring some of the strength seen last week post-Fed. Pressure was largely observed since the opening bell, with the Nasdaq underperforming as Broadcom’s (AVGO, -11.4%) Q4 earnings showed its AI order backlog fell short of...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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U.S. Indices ultimately finished the first session of December trading lower. The session was choppy with Equity F.utures sold overnight alongside caution in APAC trade in response to soft China PMIs. Pressure extended once Europe arrived, with the DAX lagging amid a...
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U.S. Indices closed firmer on Friday following a holiday shortened half-day session that witnessed little or no two-way price action. Earlier Futures Markets were halted by a CME ‘’Cooling Issue’’ glitch. The major averages have cleared their 50-Day Trendlines in this...
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U.S. Indices closed firmer on Wednesday heading into Thanksgiving with outperformance in the Russell and the Nasdaq, alongside broad-based gains. Technology was one of the clear outperformers, but Communications lagged with AI names trading higher after recent...
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U.S. Indices closed firmer on Tuesday, and while the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 underperformed, it managed to pare all weakness initially seen, driven by NVIDIA, amid The Information reports that Meta is considering using Google’s TPUs in its data centres in 2027. NVIDIA...
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