Opinion – Thursday 13 November 2025

U.S. Indices closed mixed as the risk tone was mixed on Wednesday, with European Indices rallying across the board, but US Indices were mixed. The SPX, NDX, and RUT closed little changed, but the Dow Jones again saw strong outperformance thanks to upside in...

Opinion – Wednesday 12 November 2025

U.S. Indices reversed initial losses seen in what was a day of two halves. At the cash open, and US equity futures prior to it, weakness was seen, which was led by CoreWeave cutting revenue guidance, and Softbank selling its whole stake in NVIDIA. While both those...

Opinion – Wednesday 11 November 2025

U.S. Indices closed the first trading session of the week in the green amid risk-on sentiment as the US Senate took the first steps over the weekend to end the US government shutdown, alongside continued positive US/China trade developments. Sectors are predominantly...

Opinion – Monday 10 November 2025

It was a choppy session to end the week with Thursday’s risk-off tone initially seeping into Friday’s trade amid ongoing concerns over AI valuations and following more weak data with the University of Michigan Consumer Survey painting a bleak picture of consumer...

Opinion – Thursday 6 November 2025

U.S. Indexes ended Wednesday’s session with notable gains after a downbeat start as initial AMD weakness post-earnings weighed with investors touting lofty valuations, but this soon pared. Sectors were mainly green with Communication Services and Consumer...

Opinion – Wednesday 5 November 2025

U.S. Indexes closed, led by the 2% fall in the NASDAQ 100 lagging. Technology was the clear sectoral laggard, weighed by weakness in Palantir (-8%) post-earnings, which also weighed on other AI plays, such as NVDA (-4%). Back to PLTR, they reported a stellar quarter...

Opinion – Tuesday 4 November 2025

U.S. Indexes closed mixed, with the NASDAQ 100 outperforming while both the Rusell and Dow lagged. Upside in the S&P and NASDAQ was primarily due to the heavy cap tech stocks, with Amazon (AMZN) lifting the Indices after it inked a USD 38 billion deal with OpenAI...

Opinion – Monday 3 November 2025

U.S. Indexes closed mixed when looking on a sector basis, as Consumer Discretionary surged thanks to Amazon’s 10% rally on a profit, revenue, and AWS beat. In tech, Apple was marginally higher but reversed earlier gains to close 0.5% lower as participants...

Opinion – Thursday 30 October 2025

U.S. Indexes, Treasuries, and Gold saw notable selling, while the U.S. Dollar soared in the wake of a very hawkish Powell at the Fed press conference. In the decision beforehand, it cut rates by 25 basis points, as expected, to 3.75-4%, albeit in a 10-2 decision....

Opinion – Wednesday 29 October 2025

U.S. Indexes closed at new all-time highs, led by all three American Indexes with NVIDIA largely responsible for the move as breadth across sectors was poor. NVIDIA’s (NVDA, +5%) gains came amid CEO Huang’s keynote address at GTC, where new lines of...

Opinion – Tuesday 28 October 2025

U.S. Indexes closed at new all-time highs, buoyed by the risk-on sentiment to start the week amid reports that the U.S. and China agreed on a framework for a trade deal ahead of the Trump/Xi meeting later this week. As a result, spot Gold was sold and fell beneath USD...

Opinion – Thursday 23 October 2025

U.S. Indexes closed in the red on Wednesday and saw some pressure in the US afternoon amid reports that the Trump administration is mulling export controls to China on goods made with or containing US software, although some of the move attempted to pare as digestion...

Opinion – Wednesday 22 October 2022

U.S. Indexes were mixed on Tuesday, with the S&P and NASDAQ 100 ultimately closing little changed in choppy trade, while the Dow Jones was strong while the Russell 2000 was again weak. Sectors were mixed amid a flurry of earnings. Consumer Discretionary and...

Opinion – Tuesday 21 October 2025

U.S. Indexes saw gains in risk-on trade amid very light newsflow to start the week amid the Fed blackout and lack of US data given the Government shutdown. On which, White House Economic adviser Hassett thinks the shutdown is likely to end sometime this week, but did...