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Monday was a quiet session to start the week on account of the Veteran’s Day holiday with no Fed speakers or US data released. The direction of trade, however, was largely a function of the Trump Trade with Republicans looking increasingly likely to take the...
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U.S. Equity Markets were bid on Friday with the S&P 500 briefly rising above 6000 before paring into the closing bell. The NASDAQ 100 was the relative underperformer with Tech and communication among the lagging sectors, with only materials also closing in the...
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Stocks surged on Wednesday while the Dollar rallied and bonds plummeted, with bonds and the Dollar posting the largest intraday moves since the COVID-era in response to Trump’s victory in the US Presidential Election. The Trump proposals of tax cuts supported...
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Tuesday was a risk-on-session on US election day with equities rallying with outperformance seen in the Russell 2000 while all sectors closed in the green. Consumer Discretionary alongside Industrials and Utilities led gains on the day, with Tech and Communications...
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U.S. Equity Markets closed lower on Monday. Price action was primarily categorised as an unwind of the Trump Trade after weekend polls and betting markets showed Trump losing momentum vs Harris. Briefly recapping, a new Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll showed...
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U.S. Equity Markets (SPX +0.4%, NDX +0.7%, RUT +0.6%, DJIA +0.7%) closed in the green and were boosted by the soft U.S. Payrolls Report and also Amazon (AMZN) (+6.2%) earnings impressing, despite Apple (AAPL) (-1.3%) disappointing. Briefly recapping payrolls, the...
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U.S. Equity Markets ultimately closed in the red but the NASDAQ 100 was the clear laggard as weakness in semis post-AMD (AMD) earnings offset strong Google (GOOGL) earnings. Semis were also hit after Ernst & Young announced it sent a letter of resignation to...
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U.S. Equity Markets ultimately closed Tuesday mixed with notable outperformance in the NASDAQ ahead of key earnings, while the heavyweights printed notable gains (ex-TSLA) while Broadcom (AVGO) rallied on reports that the Company is developing an AI inference chip...
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U.S. Equity Markets ultimately closed primarily in the green on Monday although the NASDAQ 100 gave up early gains as Tech sold off. The only sectors to close in the red were Tech and Energy, with the latter weighed on by tumbling crude prices in the aftermath of...
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U.S. Equity Markets ultimately finished Friday mixed with the S&P, Dow and Russell 2000 giving up their strong start to the day while the NASDAQ outperformed, albeit still closed off highs. The NDX was buoyed by the tech sector with semis performing well after a...
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U.S. Equity Markets closed lower on Wednesday (SPX -0.9%, RUT -0.8%, DJIA -1%) with the tech-heavy NASDAQ 100 (-1.6%) lagging as it was weighed on by weakness in mega-cap names Apple (AAPL) (-2.2%) and Nvidia (NVDA) (-2.8%). AAPL was weighed on by cautious analyst...
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U.S. Equity Markets were choppy on Tuesday, albeit settling with upside bias (SPX flat, NDX +0.1%, DJIA flat) but underperformance was in the small-cap Russell 2000 (-0.4%). Sectors were also mixed amid a deluge of earnings with Industrials and Materials the laggards,...
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U.S. Equity Markets ultimately closed mixed on Monday with outperformance in the NASDAQ 100, the only Index to close green in the US thanks to strength in Technology. Tech was the only sector to close green, with all others lower with Real Estate and Health Care...
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U.S. Indices (SPX +0.4%, NDX +0.7%, RUT -0.2%, DJIA +0.1%) had an upward bias on Friday with sectors following. Communications was the clear outperformer and buoyed by a stellar Netflix (NFLX) (+11.1%) report. Energy, Consumer Staples, and Financials were the only...
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