It’s so overdue, and all risk assets everywhere, from condos in Miami and Toronto to the stock market…it’s just starting to happen, and the greatest inflation in 40 years, and in most people’s lifetime is just starting that,” he said. I don’t’ know how much lower… But what I fully expect is that when we […]
This week the Federal Reserve addressed revisions to its current monetary policy in its attempt to reduce the current levels of inflation to an acceptable target. The release of the Federal Reserve’s FOMC statement, coupled with Chairman Powell’s press conference, resulted in a major rally in U.S. Yesterday market participants had 24 hours to digest […]
Volatility has surged across asset classes over the last year, with stocks, bonds, currencies and commodities all experiencing more pronounced moves. While dip buyers were generally rewarded over the last two years, as a dovish Fed helped buoy markets, stepping in to buy on weakness has become far riskier in recent months. …Read the full […]
central bank looks to raise interest rates by another 50 basis points at the next two meetings, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell pushed back on market expectations of a bigger 75-basis point move. Other central banks will have to step up with their tightening measure,” said Philip Streible, chief market strategist at Blue Line Futures. […]
NEW YORK, May 6 – Individual investors were major buyers on Thursday as stocks sold off over concerns that the U.S. Retail investors net bought $2.6 billion worth of stocks and exchange traded funds on Thursday, according to Vanda Research. Retail investors have become a bigger force in the markets in the past couple of […]
Sanofi, which will keep a 30% stake, distributed 58% of EuroAPI’s equity capital to Sanofi shareholders as a dividend in kind. …Read the full story
At the time of writing, June Comex gold futures were trading at $1,875.00, up 0.33% on the day, after breaching the $1,900 an ounce level earlier in the session. On Wednesday, the Fed raised rates by 50 basis points, the biggest rate hike since 2000. “A 75-basis-point increase is not something the committee is actively […]
There was a significant rally in gold, bitcoin, and the U.S. “A 75-basis-point increase is not something the committee is actively considering,” Powell told reporters Wednesday. “Households and businesses are in strong financial shape, the labor market is very very strong, the economy is strong and is well-positioned to handle tighter monetary policy. economy is […]
“I like to point to Paul Tudor Jones’ May 2020 letter to investors, where he talks about unprecedented levels of global monetary stimulus and the fact that fiat money can be printed away. “As institutional adoption continued to increase, so did correlation of Bitcoin relative to the equities market. “A pivot in the Fed language […]
Trading Tuesday as the bulls are trying to stop the bleeding in a down-trending market that Monday hit a 2.5-month low. A brief “flash crash” occurred in European stock markets Monday, reportedly on an erroneous trade entered by a Citigroup in Sweden. In other overnight news, the Euro zone producer price index for March was […]
“If you told me you owned all the bitcoin in the world and you offered it to me for $25, I wouldn’t take it,” Buffett said. Buffett continued his criticism: “Whether it goes up or down in the next year, or five or 10 years, I don’t know. “In my life, I try and avoid […]
European energy prices hit record highs this year after the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, Europe’s top gas supplier. That followed months of already high gas prices, caused by surging demand in economies recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic and growing concerns about Russian supply. “ACER finds that the current wholesale electricity market design ensures efficient […]
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Barclays disclosed on March 28 that it had exceeded a U.S. “This is seen as a short-term suspension of market-making activity which should be “fixed” in short order. …Read the full story
“This is an environment where you have nowhere to hide. “What you want to own there is just dollar cash at the end of the day and some protection on your risk assets, so some volatility, some VIX, and some dollar cash. “I would argue we’re at the point where if inflation becomes sticky high, […]
June gold futures were last up $0.90 at $1,889.50 and May Comex silver was last down $0.36 at $23.10 an ounce. Traders reckoned the weak GDP number might give the Federal Reserve some pause on its aggressive monetary-policy-tightening stance, but those notions did not last long as most believe fighting inflation is the Fed’s main […]
But only about 11% of the country’s population has access to the internet, DataReportal reported. “This is just one example of positive support for crypto at a government level, as Brazil has approved a law to regulate crypto in the country. …Read the full story
Over the past 18 months the silver market has seen prices rise sharply to record levels and then decline significantly, perplexing many bullish observers. CPM Group’s Silver Yearbook 2022 contains detailed statistics on the international silver market. …Read the full story
