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Trading is one of the most difficult jobs ever because you need to constantly adapt to unforeseeable external factors that affect your initial judgement without emotional attachment and it’s also the only job… more »

The US dollar hit fresh lows during Powell's conference but reversed when he said that “the ultimate level of rates will be higher” than previously anticipated. That means the +5% rate is back on the… more »

The Good Stimulus and a looser monetary policy help China to have a solid COVID-19 recovery with moderate inflation, much lower than the European and US nations. China's interest rate is on a long-term downtrend… more »

We think today that Fed and Mr. Powell will search sooner rather than later for a pivot point policy to change things because we already have a higher restrictive economic environment. We should remember that… more »

Energy sector it’s the best performing market sector in 2022 instead of the latest evolution of Oil. Evolution of energy sector its close correlated with war between Russia & Ukraine. But we need to recap… more »

US July CPI +8.5% y/y vs +8.7% expected it's the first good sign about inflation But let's analyze data below: Stocks   are up with large gains SPX over 2.13% and Nasdaq NDQ over 3% Dollar down DXY… more »

After big rates hike by FED and ECB, investors are hoping that in the following year, central banks will start to normalize rates, therefore Stock market show a bounce back (SPX is near 4.000). We think it’s a… more »

We analyzed the last week's performance on each asset class and found that the most resilient category from year to date is Energy, REITs and precious metals (instead of the last rally down of Gold). It’s… more »

The FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) meeting consensus was for 50bp rate increase because of this week's worst CPI reading, but Fed hiked with 75bp, and market consensus agreed for other future rate increase… more »

EU inflation is 6.1% and rate hike is mandatory. From the previously forecasted values of 3%, we have a deviation of 3% which is caused by multiple factors: Goldman Sachs also cut their US economic… more »

FOMC Lift rates with only 0.50 % as expected 0.5% increased rates were taken by Markets with lots of optimism because Powell announced 75 BP hikes off the table for next two meetings. Sentiment was RISK-ON, instead… more »

I have never seen in 20 years of investing such a confluence of fundamental factors pointing to a bear market scenario for stocks like this year. First, it was the Covid19 pandemic outbreak that disrupted the… more »

The rate hike was priced in and the market was on RISK-ON mode yesterday. Main question for the FED yesterday was, what percent will be the hike? To stop inflation 0.5% was a better idea to hike but voters don't… more »

After high Inflation in US and Europe, the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak, a new event like war between two major countries affected the markets. War between Ukraine and Russia pushed this morning Gold over 2000$, Oil… more »

Decision on partial troop withdrawal has been taken added some optimism on markets (SP500 +1,58% NDQ +2,58) but we still have questions about inflation and growth Oil & gold come back to previous levels. more »

Yesterday was a special day for trading markets because of rising in CPI. Stocks were up with over 2% percent at the start of the US session but reversed sharply with over 5%. Inflation surprised markets expectations… more »

After the meeting between Putin and Macron, the markets have regained some losses from the first month of the year. Macron: "Putin told me that he would not be behind any escalation in Ukraine". Instead, the meeting… more »

The ADP job data surprised to the downside this month: - 301K versus +200K estimate. All economic branches were down this month: The fell was the largest since April 2020 because Omicron outbreak, according to FED… more »

SPX gave back the gains at the end of the day, because investors lost conviction that an early rally had legs. Risk-On sentiment didn't last after China decreased rates. Fears of inflation and higher interest… more »