Market Overview Analysis & Opinion

WALL STREET WAS stunned Friday morning by the strength of the jobs market. While technology company layoffs have lately hijacked the fear-mongering media’s narrative, the truth is that the...

The much-anticipated FOMC statement on Wednesday’s small 25 bps hike was greeted with open arms by the bulls, who already had pushed the FANG Gang up last month by an astonishing 40%+. Of...

 All the major tech firms have now reported and it's been quite the opposite of what you might expect. Meta (NASDAQ:META) (Facebook) came out trumps while Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG) (Google) sank! We...

The most recent NFIB (National Federation Of Independent Business) survey is sending a strong signal of an economic recession. In 2019, the NFIB survey, combined with an inverted yield curve,...

MON: US Secretary of State Blinken to visit China (TBC), Australian Retail Sales (Q4), EZ Sentix Index (Feb), EZ Retail Sales (Dec), New Zealand National Day. TUE: RBA Announcement, US Trade Balance...

The bears had a go off the 7835 resistance level yesterday, managing to just pop below the 7800 before the bulls fought back once again. As such that keeps alive the prospect of a rise towards the...

US market rates fell after the Federal Reserve decision but this looks more like a market positioning effect than anything specific from the meeting. Expect some retracement. Both the European Central...

BOEAs for today’s economic calendar, we have two important economic events unfolding. Firstly, it is the Bank of England’s meeting. The bank is expected to increase the interest rate by 50...

What follows is a somewhat-edited version of Episode #50 of the Inflation Guy Podcast;Hello and welcome to Cents and Sensibility, the Inflation Guy Podcast. I am Michael Ashton, the Inflation Guy, and...

Despite mounting evidence supporting recession forecasts, the stock market remains at odds with that outlook. This leaves investors in a predicament of avoiding a further drawdown in the equity...

Chief Content & Culture Officer Anthony Cheung looks at the main need-to-know news for the week ahead in global markets.The perfect prep for any student currently applying to investment bank...

Decent day for the bulls yesterday with the 7715 support area holding well for a push up to the 7790 resistance area once again. Having dropped off that overnight we are now just on 2h support to...

MON: Swiss KOF (Jan), Japanese Retail Sales (Dec), Japanese Unemployment (Dec), UK Nationwide House Price (Jan) TUE: Australian Retail Sales (Dec), Chinese NBS (LON:NBS) PMIs (Jan), German Import...

JUST LIKE THAT, growth stocks are back in vogue. Vanguard Growth ETF (NYSE:VUG) has outpaced Vanguard Value ETF (NYSE:VTV) by more than nine percentage points over the past three weeks. That gap in...