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U.S. Equity Markets were broadly hit on Monday with steep losses in AI and tech names leading the downside with NVDA closing down 17%. The weakness was observed with questions now hanging over the AI dominance in the US after China’s DeepSeek (an openAI rival)...
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U.S. Equity Markets closed lower on Friday with the majority of losses occurring in the US afternoon on likely profit taking into the weekend after President Trump’s first week in office which saw the S&P 500 hit a fresh record high earlier in the week....
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U.S. Equity Markets  predominantly closed higher with the S&P 500 printing a fresh record high while T-notes saw gradual selling, more so in the belly. The upside in stocks was led by the NASDAQ 100 with Tech and Communication names the only sectors truly in the...
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U.S. Equity Markets closed higher on Tuesday, ked by the 1.9% impressive gain in the Russell 2000 with the vast majority of sectors in the green, with only Energy in the red as President Trump’s executive orders and initial Dollar firmness weighed on the crude...
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US equity futures were bid with outperformance in the Russell 200 while the S&P, NDX and Dow Futures all saw gains of 0.4%. T-Note futures were also bid with morning weakness pared after reports in the Wall Street Journal said US President Trump is to avoid...
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Equity Markets closed higher on Friday supported by optimism on US/Sino relations after a phone call with US President-elect Trump and China President Xi, who both expressed desire for a positive start to their relationship when President Trump gets inaugurated on...
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Both Equity Markets and Treasuries saw hefty bids on Wednesday in response to the soft-leaning US CPI report which saw participants boost rate cut bets. 40bps of easing is now priced through year-end, back to around pre-NFP levels. Sectors were bid with notable...
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U.S. Indices closed mixed yesterday ahead of this afternoon’s key CPI release (S&P +0.1%, NASDAQ 100 -0.1%, DJIA -0.5%, RUSSELL 2000 +1.1%), despite futures seeing an initial bounce on a cool US PPI print on the headline. Thereafter, stocks and Treasuries saw...
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U.S. Indices were mixed on Monday with the S&P 500. Dow Jones and Russell 2000 paring some of the post NFP downside, although the NASDAQ added to losses in a tech-led sell off, particularly in semiconductors which are being weighed on by Biden export controls and...
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Stocks and bonds tumbled on Friday while the Dollar surged in response to the strong US jobs report which saw traders pare Fed rate cut bets. The NFP rose above all analyst expectations while the unemployment rate surprisingly slipped. Money markets started to unwind...
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U.S. Indices (SPX +0.2%, NDX flat, DJIA +0.3%, RUT -0.5%) were mixed on Wednesday, as were sectors, with the small-cap Russell 2000 the clear underperformer. Health and Consumer Staples were the relative outperformers, while Communication Services, Energy, and Health...
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U.S. Indices saw broad-based weakness on Tuesday (SPX -1.1%, DJIA -0.4%, RUT -0.7%) with underperformance in the Nasdaq 100 (-1.8%) as macro moves were seen in wake of a hot US ISM Services and JOLTS report. Recapping the data, the latter rose above the top end of of...
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U.S. Indices were predominantly green on Monday with the upside led by the NASDAQ 100. Large caps performed well while semis were bid, supported by commentary from Microsoft (MSFT) which is to spend USD 80 billion on AI data centres; attention now turns to CES this...
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U.S. Indices saw strong gains on Friday with outperformance in the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 (+1.7%) supported by gains in Nvidia (NVDA) (+4.5%) and Tesla (TSLA) (+8.3%). Newsflow was sparse to the end the week as participants continued to return from the holidays ahead...
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