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U.S. Equity Markets pushed higher on Wednesday with record highs being made once again in both the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ 100. The NDX outperformed led by gains in big tech with Microsoft (MSFT) crossing the USD 3 trillion market cap and Meta (META) rising above...
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U.S. Equity Markets closed were mixed on Tuesday with the NASDAQ 100 outperforming and Russell 2000 lagging. The S&P 500 and NDX gradually gained throughout the US session while the Dow Jones and Russell 2000 sold off after the open before paring somewhat...
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It was a quiet start to the week ahead of a slew of key risk events, including Bank of Japan overnight (preview below), Bank of Canada, ECB, U.S. GDP, U.S. PCE and a batch of American earnings. Nonetheless, stocks opened firmer with the S&P 500 notching a fresh...
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U.S. Equity Markets surged on Friday helping the S&P 500 to hit a fresh record high with Technology names doing a lot of the heavy lifting. The yield curve flattened with front-end yields rising ahead of supply this week. The highlight of the session was the...
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U.S. Equity Markets closed lower on Wednesday amid the hawkish repricing of central bank rate paths amid a slew of hawkish economic data and central bank speak. However, a late rally into the close saw earlier losses erased by 30%. Hot U.K. CPI figures and more...
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U.S. Equity Markets closed lower on Tuesday with Tech the only sector in the black amid rising yields and recurring geopolitical risk. Fed’s Waller tapered expectations for a deep cutting cycle, giving his first set of public remarks since the end of November,...
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Former U.S. President Trump was called the clear winner of the Iowa Republican Caucuses from very early on while Edison Research later announced that Trump has 51.1%, DeSantis has 21.2% and Haley has 19.0% with 95% of estimated Iowa caucus votes in. U.S. Equity...
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U.S Equity Markets were choppy on Friday and ultimately little changed after gyrating between the Middle East conflict and soft U.S. PPI data, whilst Treasuries sustained big bull-steepening. The benchmark Equity Futures saw losses accumulate in the European morning,...
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U.S Equity Markets closed higher on Wednesday with a lack of major news or data to go off ahead of this afternoon’s key CPI data. Tech was an outperforming sector with the NDX outperforming the SPX. All three main Indexes closed higher, led by the 0.69% gain in the...
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Both the S&P 500 and NASDAQ 100 closed little changed on Tuesday after losses out of Europe faded through the New York morning with risk assets in a holding pattern amid macro catalysts on the light side ahead of CPI on Thursday and bank earnings on Friday. The...
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U.S. Equity Markets surged on Monday with notable gains across major indices, particularly the Nasdaq 100 with strong outperformance in the Tech sector led by gains in Semiconductors, namely Nvidia (NVDA) after a slew of updates from the CES conference. AMD (AMD) also...
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U.S. Equity Markets were little changed in choppy trade Friday as they digested the conflicting NFP and ISM Services reports and whipsawing Treasury Yields. Stock and bond futures had been selling off in the pre-market, accelerating amid the hawkish reaction to the...
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U.S. Equity Markets Stocks continued the downward New Year trend after the Santa Rally towards the end of 2023 with the downside led by the Russell 2000. Crude prices saw upside on Wednesday with Geopolitical concerns still rife with Iran warning of a severe response...
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U.S. Equity Markets closed lower on Tuesday, with big tech leading the losses, exhibited by the equal-weight S&P 500 outperforming the market cap-weighted benchmark. There was not one singular reason for the stock weakness, with desks pointing to both fundamental...
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