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US stocks were mixed on return from the long weekend as participants digested several data releases including firm US Consumer Confidence metrics and with yields edging higher following soft US 2-year and 5-year auctions, while the latest Fed rhetoric failed to add...
Futures Trading Education
Surging commodity prices are threatening to bring inflation back through a door that investors thought central banks had slammed shut. This is bringing yields higher, Commodities this year already erased much of 2023’s declines, perhaps the most obvious sign that the...
Futures Trading Education
Equity Markets closed green on Friday with outperformance in the NASDAQ 100 with sectoral gains most seen in Communication and Tech names although most sectors closed green (ex health care) with broad-based gains (equal-weighted SPX +0.7%). Stocks generally were bid...
Futures Trading Education
US Equity Markets closed lower on Wednesday, with underperformance in the small-cap Russell 2000 as traders await the pivotal Nvidia earnings after-hours. However, better than expected earnings from Nvidia including announcing a 10/1 stock split has led to a new move...
Futures Trading Education
US Indices were little changed on Tuesday (SPX +0.2%, NDX +0.1%, DJIA +0.2%, Russell -0.2%) with sectors mixed; Nvidia (NVDA) (+0.4%) saw marginal upside ahead of earnings of Wednesday. In FX, the Dollar Index was flat and within very tight ranges as both the Canadian...
Futures Trading Education
Equity Markets have been choppy to start the week, albeit in very thin newsflow, as participants await the key risk events such as FOMC Minutes, Nvidia (NVDA) earnings, and UK inflation data tomorrow Wednesday followed by US PMIs on Thursday. U.S. Indices ended the...
Futures Trading Education
U.S. Equity Markets finished rangebound on Friday in what turned out to be one of the quietest trading sessions of the year to date. We had no tier one economic releases and no major incremental newsflow which saw the S&P 500 traverse sideways throughout most of...
Futures Trading Education
The highlight of the day was the softer than expected US CPI report which saw markets back to fully pricing in two rate cuts this year, with the first move now fully discounted by September. Both Equity and Treasury Markets were instantly bid and despite some post...
Futures Trading Education
Markets saw two-way action on Tuesday, as the initial broad-based hawkish reaction seen post-PPI (downside in Treasuries and stocks, upside in Dollar) swiftly pared as participants digested the details and awaited remarks from Fed Chair Powell, albeit he said little...
Futures Trading Education
U.S. Equity Markets again closed flat on Monday as markets go ‘’on hold’’ ahead of this afternoon’s PPI and CPI data tomorrow. Equity futures ground higher in pre-market trade before selling off at the open with lows in stocks later seen in the US afternoon, seemingly...
Futures Trading Education
U.S. Equity Markets closed mixed on Friday in a session that finally witnessed some two-way price action. Most Indices finished with mild gains but with choppy price actions amid headwinds from a plunge in the University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment and a rise in...
Futures Trading Education
U.S. Equity Markets closed mixed on Wednesday with the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ 100 little changed while the Dow was bid and Russell 2000 lower. Futures were hit in the pre-market however after some cautious earnings from Uber (UBER), soft Intel (INTC) guidance and...
Futures Trading Education
U.S. Equity Markets were choppy on Tuesday with the Indices holding on to their recent strength with mixed performances under the surface. There were no major macro catalysts on Tuesday, with the softer Manheim used car vehicle index the data “highlight”,...
Futures Trading Education
U.S Equity Markets rallied further on Monday with continued momentum from the soft NFP data on Friday that has increased the chances of the Fed being able to cut this year. The rate-sensitive small-caps saw outperformance, indicative of the appetite for duration,...
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