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U.S. Indices closed positive on Wednesday but off the earlier peaks, with oil prices falling while T-notes rose across the curve. The driver of price action was the reported progress in moving to peace in the US/Iran war after the US sent a 15-point peace plan and...
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U.S. Indices closed mixed on Wednesday, with tech taking a hit while small caps outperformed. The day was filled with mixed messaging around geopolitics, but tech stocks were hit by software names on more private credit redemption caps from Apollo and Ares, while...
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U.S. Indices closed well in the green on Monday as President Trump halted attacks on Iranian energy and power infrastructure for five days. This led to a reduction of the geopolitical risk premiums with stocks rallying and crude tumbling. Crude settled well off the...
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U.S. Indices were slammed on Friday as geopolitics continues to dominate, while a heavy week of central bank activity marked a hawkish shift due to the US/Iran war. The downside saw the Russell fall 10% from peaks, officially entering correction territory. Reports had...
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U.S. Indices closed lower while Treasury Yields rose in response to further upside in oil prices in response to an Israeli attack on the South Pars gas facility, the largest in the world. Oil gave back some of its gains as the EU’s Kallas and the Iranian Foreign...
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U.S. Indices closed firmer on Tuesday in broader risk-on sentiment, as despite the constant flow of Middle East headlines, there were few escalatory or de-escalatory developments. There have been conflicting reports regarding the health of Iran’s Top Security...
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U.S. Indices saw further pressure on Friday as geopolitics continue to dominate, hitting risk sentiment. Sectors were more split with haven sectors (Utilities and Staples) outperforming alongside Energy, while Tech, Materials and Communications were the notable...
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US Indices closed flat/down on Wednesday as rising oil prices limited any rebound from Tuesday’s late-staged selloff. The IEA confirmed it is to release 400 million barrels of oil into the market, but the timing depends on each country, while there is still...
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US Indices ended Tuesday’s trading session with modest losses, in what was, once again, a day dominated by Middle East headlines with conflicting rhetoric. Markets initially, and for much of the day, followed President Trump’s comments last night that the...
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Monday was an historic day for markets, and without sounding cliche “one of two halves”, highlighted by WTI (oil) seeing its 2nd biggest daily ever move. The day, sentiment, and market moves, turnaround in the last 40 minutes of cash equity trade after...
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U.S. Indexes were heavily sold on Friday, concluding what has been a grim week for risk assets amid the start of the Middle East conflict. In addition to that, markets got a further hit on a quite dismal US jobs report, which saw the headline plunge 92k (exp. 59k,...
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U.S. Indexes closed firmer on Wednesday, with outperformance seen in the NASDAQ, as consumer discretionary and technology sectors led the gains. The majority of sectors were green, aside from energy and consumer staples. Energy gave back some of its recent gains while...
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U.S. Indexes closed lower on Tuesday, albeit off morning lows, as the escalating Middle Eastern conflict continues to dominate trade, and newsflow. The Israel/Iran/US war shows no signs of slowing down, as from all sides the attacks continued far and wide, with Iran...
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U.S. Indexes were choppy on Monday while energy prices and Gold were bid with T-notes bear flattening and the U.S. Dollar firmer in response to the US/Iran conflict. Over the weekend, the US struck Iran, killing the Supreme Leader Khamenei, with Iran responding by...
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