Market Overview

The Fed meetings seem to create more confusion than needed, but it is what is what it is. I know that even though I wrote yesterday that at 2:35 PM ET, it was possible that we saw the usual FOMC press...

The Federal Reserve (Fed) decision yesterday was - interesting. As expected, the Fed kept its rates unchanged and said that they are not confident about cutting the interest rates as inflation has...

Most of the major asset classes retreated in April. The overall losses mark the worst month for global markets so far in 2024, based on a set of ETFs.The upside outliers last month were limited to...

Comfort is often the worst enemy of the economy. Recall the Dotcom Bubble in 2001, which threw most investors off after a sustained bull run in tech stocks. In the same century, the world was hit with...

The monthly ADP labour market report showed that America created 192K new jobs in April, above the forecasted 179K and following +208K in March (revised from 184K). Overall, there was a slight...

In an op-ed for the Washington Post on November 5, 2010, Ben Bernanke did a victory lap, praising the Fed’s efforts in stemming the financial crisis. In the article, he discusses how QE and...

Gold Dropped as USD Strengthened In Anticipation Of The Fed's Interest Rate DecisionGold (XAU) moved within a bearish trend on Tuesday and lost 2.1%, while DXY gained 0.64%. Even lower-than-expected...

The S&P 500 was down about 1.6% heading into the FOMC meeting and Quarterly Refunding Announcement today. The VIX 1-Day was up 8.3 points to 18.10, which suggests much of the decline yesterday...

The value of modeling recession risk-based multiple indicators is a hardy perennial. The latest example comes by way of aggregating trends in the 50 US state economies for estimating the odds that an...

Yen eases from highs as Japanese authorities stay mum on interventionDollar creeps higher, euro softer as attention turns to Eurozone economyStocks mixed ahead of more key earnings, gold extends...

Gold Moves Sideways Ahead of the Fed Interest Rate DecisionThe gold price (XAU) moved within the 2,324–2,344 range on Monday due to a lack of important news or other driving factors. Although...

Tomorrow, markets expect the Fed to have a similar message as the previous meetings. While rate cuts are highly unlikely, a hawkish surprise from Powell could jolt markets. Watch key indicators like...

Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) stole the light with a 15% jump on Monday after Elon Musk’s surprise visit to China resulted in a partnership with Baidu’s maps and navigation futures that cleared the...

On 30 April – 1 May, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) of the U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) will meet to decide on key interest rates in the U.S. economy. The Fed is expected to leave rates...