Financial News & Market Analysis

We maintain our bearish bias on CHF. Our expectation for four Fed rate hikes in 2022 means we now see US 10yr yields at 2.20% by 2Q22. The SNB remains one of the most dovish central banks in the G10, and we think… more »

China cuts Loan Prime Rates: 1 year to 3.7% (from 3.8%) & 5 year to 4.6% (from 4.65%) The People's Bank of China cut its Medium-Term Lending Facility rate to 2.85% On the 7-day reverse repo today, rate cut to… more »

Yesterday markets were down with over 2% because disappointing Earning Results from banks like JPMorgan & Citi Bank. We are still waiting results of other big banks like Goldman Sachs, Bank of America. Morgan… more »

Goldman Sachs change their growth forecast for US from 5%-6% in 2021 to 3,4% in 2022 because of two factors: Deloitte projects 4% GDP instead of Reserve Bank of Australia 5,5%  Deloitte Access Economics says the… more »

“Based on rhetoric from the Bank of Canada in December, it was clear that labour market dynamics and outperforming economic data had created heightened concerns at the Bank that the output gap was closing more… more »

Core inflation: Some notable categories: Gold is UP … more »

Ayhan Kose, director of the World Bank's said "There is a pronounced slowdown underway, ... Policy support is being withdrawn and there is a multitude of risks ahead of us." The World Bank is out with its latest… more »

As we started a new year 2022, we want to present you our conclusions on markets and an analysis of our managed portfolio. In this article, we will analyse four major assets: Stocks, Gold, Oil and Commodities. more »

Tech stock -3,5% and Bitcoin -5%  S&P -2% was hard hit yesterday buy Fed minute. The minutes revealed that committee members think inflation risks were more persistent to the upside, and there was general… more »

Bellow will find a short fragment from the interview… more »

Where are we today?! Today, markets are in a recessionary stage because of more than a decade of financial bad investments; we are witnessing a process of money creation (Helicopter Money) to a scale that a few… more »

The major international indices rebounded on Wednesday, despite the concerns about the Covid variant and the Federal Reserve is hinting an early departure of its accommodative monetary policy. However, the tone… more »

The news about higher prices of food abounds in online stream media. Agricultural prices will go higher in 2022 and will have a significant impact on CPI. The main reason of higher agricultural prices in 2022 are… more »

We have taken a Gold & Silver Position two weeks ago, at 1.710, and respectively 22.4 because we consider that Gold & Silver are the best bet against inflation, to add it at a portfolio. We placed our… more »

Shipping congestions will continually to persist long time from now, until end of 2022. Also, transportation prices will still remain high. After Covid19 that is “the perfect storm” for this, other factors… more »

Do we have the opportunity to buy Palladium and Platinum right now, since the price dropped over 22% from all time high? Prices are very attractive if we look on the charts below, but Fundamental Analysis tells… more »

Reserve Bank of Australia Guy Debelle, speaking before the Australian Parliament's House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics Debelle says the Bank is spending a fair bit of its time assessing… more »

They say short and long-run inflation expectations are now well above their pre-pandemic range. The Citi/YouGov survey showed 12 month expectations at 4.1% (prior 3.1%) and 5-10 year inflation at 3.8% (prior 3.4%). more »

Our market forecasts through the balance of the year assume that US Treasury yields will rise but that the US Dollar will depreciate against most crosses. The Dollar's correlation with Treasury yields tends to… more »