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Overall, a dovish reaction to the FOMC and Press Conference which saw the Fed leave rates on hold as expected but it also announced it is to taper its QT run-off to just USD 25 billion a month from USD 60 billion, slightly more dovish than the expected USD 30 billion....
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U.S. Equity Markets closed lower on Tuesday with the surprise rise in the Q1 Employment Cost Index ramping the hawkish pressure on the Fed ahead of this evening’s Fed Meeting Statement and Fed Chair Powell’s press conference at 7.30 pm. There were kneejerk losses to...
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U.S Equity Markets ended flat in choppy trade on Monday as Indices took pause from their recovery with a lack of major macro catalysts except for the Japanese Yen intervention. While there was no tier 1 data, we did get the US quarterly financing estimates ahead of...
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U.S. Equity Markets saw strong gains on Friday (SPX +1%, NDX +1.7%) although that appeared mostly a big tech earnings story (GOOGL +10%, MSFT +2%) with the equal-weight S&P flat. The macro highlight was the March Core PCE, +0.32% M/M versus 0.3% expected, which...
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U.S. Equity Markets Stocks were choppy on Wednesday with NASDAQ outperformance after a short squeeze on TSLA (+11%) post-earnings as investors await more big tech earnings reports. However, post the cash market close, META stock is down 15% post earnings send both the...
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U.S Equity Markets continued their rally after the slump seen last week. The majority of the upside was sparked after the soft US PMI data with some cautious commentary on the labour market supporting the dovish move. As a result, the Dollar sold off throughout the...
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U.S. Equity Markets managed to claw back some of the prior week’s losses, with a rebound in Nvidia (NVDA) shares and in Semi-Conductors supportive of the move, underpinning technology outperformance. Elsewhere gold and oil prices were lower on a lack of...
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U.S. Equity Markets closed lower for the sixth consecutive trading session led by the NASDAQ with notable downside in Nvidia (NVDA) and Netflix (NFLX) shares. The latter was hit on a slightly disappointing next quarter revenue guidance and stopping to report...
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U.S. Equity Markets closed lower on Wednesday with losses led by the NASDAQ as the Tech sector underperformed with semis weighed on by a poor ASML earnings report. Stocks had pared some of the weakness after a stellar 20 Year bond auction before selling resumed into...
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U.S. Equity Markets were choppy on Tuesday amid hawkish Fed speeches and mixed earnings reports as the Indices attempted to find some ground after recent selling, with the VIX back under 19 and a lack of response (so far) from Israel. There were two key Fed speeches...
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The U.S Equity Market sell-off continued Monday to see the S&P 500 lose 2.6% across Friday and Monday, its largest two-day sell-off in more than a year, and now closing beneath its 50 Day Moving Average for the first time in five months, according to Bloomberg,...
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U.S. Equity Markets were sold on Friday with Iran fears and poor bank earnings weighing into the weekend, with small caps suffering the most. Treasuries saw strong gains, paring some of the week’s losses amid the Iran concerns and risk aversion. JP Morgan saw...
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U.S. Equity Markets closed lower yesterday following the release of the latest inflation report from Uncle Sam which came in “hotter than expected”. The March consumer price index (“CPI”) rose 0.4% for the month, making for a 3.5%...
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U.S. Equity Markets ultimately saw slight gains despite a choppy session yesterday, that witnessed plenty of two-way price action. Strength in the futures was seen pre-market after reports Google (GOOGL) is expanding its in-house chip efforts and a slew of cloud deals...
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