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U.S. Indices ultimately closed in the green on Tuesday with both the RUSSELL 2000 and NASDAQ 100 leading the gains, although sectors were mixed. Defensives lagged with Utilities, Staples and Health Care all red, while Energy, Communications and Tech were bid. Market...
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U.S. Indices closed in the red, albeit well off worst levels, as Trump tariff talk dominated markets to start the week. The Dollar saw Index hefty gains to the detriment of G10 FX (with the exception of both Sterling and the Japanese Yen) but saw a large range...
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Stocks and bonds ended the Friday session lower with focus on tariffs. Sentiment was initially boosted on reports that President Trump was set to postpone the tariffs by one month to March 1st, however the White House Press Secretary announced this was false and that...
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U.S. Equity Markets were choppy on Wednesday and ultimately saw two-way action on the Federal Reserve meeting. In an immediate reaction to the Fed holding rates at 4.25-4.50%, as expected, there was a hawkish reaction to the accompanying statement whereby it removed...
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Tuesday’s trading session was largely a reversal of the Monday DeepSeek reaction. US equity futures were bid throughout the majority of the session led by upside in tech with Nvidia (NVDA) regaining some of the Monday losses, albeit still having some ground to...
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U.S. Equity Markets were broadly hit on Monday with steep losses in AI and tech names leading the downside with NVDA closing down 17%. The weakness was observed with questions now hanging over the AI dominance in the US after China’s DeepSeek (an openAI rival)...
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U.S. Equity Markets closed lower on Friday with the majority of losses occurring in the US afternoon on likely profit taking into the weekend after President Trump’s first week in office which saw the S&P 500 hit a fresh record high earlier in the week....
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U.S. Equity Markets  predominantly closed higher with the S&P 500 printing a fresh record high while T-notes saw gradual selling, more so in the belly. The upside in stocks was led by the NASDAQ 100 with Tech and Communication names the only sectors truly in the...
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U.S. Equity Markets closed higher on Tuesday, ked by the 1.9% impressive gain in the Russell 2000 with the vast majority of sectors in the green, with only Energy in the red as President Trump’s executive orders and initial Dollar firmness weighed on the crude...
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US equity futures were bid with outperformance in the Russell 200 while the S&P, NDX and Dow Futures all saw gains of 0.4%. T-Note futures were also bid with morning weakness pared after reports in the Wall Street Journal said US President Trump is to avoid...
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Equity Markets closed higher on Friday supported by optimism on US/Sino relations after a phone call with US President-elect Trump and China President Xi, who both expressed desire for a positive start to their relationship when President Trump gets inaugurated on...
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Both Equity Markets and Treasuries saw hefty bids on Wednesday in response to the soft-leaning US CPI report which saw participants boost rate cut bets. 40bps of easing is now priced through year-end, back to around pre-NFP levels. Sectors were bid with notable...
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U.S. Indices closed mixed yesterday ahead of this afternoon’s key CPI release (S&P +0.1%, NASDAQ 100 -0.1%, DJIA -0.5%, RUSSELL 2000 +1.1%), despite futures seeing an initial bounce on a cool US PPI print on the headline. Thereafter, stocks and Treasuries saw...
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U.S. Indices were mixed on Monday with the S&P 500. Dow Jones and Russell 2000 paring some of the post NFP downside, although the NASDAQ added to losses in a tech-led sell off, particularly in semiconductors which are being weighed on by Biden export controls and...
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