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Mood shifts – stocks go from RED to GREEN.It’s all about NVDA – after the bell.Oil slips back, Gold trades up, Bonds unchanged.Will Lisa Cook puts the FOMC meeting in jeopardy?Try the Easy Oven Roasted BBQ Thighs. Yesterday morning’s sour mood – ended up turning sweet – investors, traders and algo’s

Markets Fed Chair Powell ignited a bond and stock market rally last Friday by saying in his key Jackson Hole speech that downside risks to employment are rising. “With policy in restrictive territory, the baseline outlook and the shifting balance may warrant adjusting our policy stance.” The Fed cha

What was the fuss about tariffs again? Tariffs on imported U.S. goods will surely cause a spike of inflation. That was, and to some extent still persists as, the primary narrative used to finger wag the White House. Meanwhile, staffers gave a few media outlets the rejoinder that we are now four-and-

The Day Tokyo Blinked In December 2005, a single trading error sent shockwaves through Japan's financial center. Billion-yen positions collapsed. Algorithms failed. Panic spread. But in the chaos, one man didn’t flinch. From a modest bedroom, armed with nothing but a screen and a strategy, he

The S&P Global flash PMIs for August are expected to show a modest downtick from July levels.Market participants will pay close attention to employment and inflation-related subindexes.EUR/USD trades within familiar levels amid the absence of a clear catalyst. S&P Global will release on Thur

The selling isn't over in US tech names but the FTSE 100 has had another stellar day, says Chris Beauchamp, Chief Market Analyst at investing and trading platform IG. FTSE 100 reaches new high The FTSE 100 has happily surged to a new high while the rest of the world seems consumed by worries about A

Silver trades flat near $38.00 on Monday, pressured by a firm US Dollar and rising Treasury yields.Caution prevails ahead of the Trump–Zelenskyy meeting, with Silver underpinned by lingering uncertainty following the inconclusive Trump-Putin talks.Silver remains range-bound below $38.50, with a doub

The US Dollar retraces previous losses and reaches daily highs near 0.8080.A moderate risk aversion ahead of the Trump-Zelenskyy meeting is providing some support to the USD.In Switzerland, Industrial Production contracted in Q2, adding negative pressure on the CHF. The US Dollar bounced up against

Markets US data on Thursday and Friday dampened hopes for the Fed to turn to more neutral policy conditions already at the mid‐September policy meeting. After an unexpected acceleration in PPI inflation, July US retail sales also didn’t show any urgency for the Fed to fuel demand already at this sta

The release of US producer price data briefly shocked local markets. The data came in significantly higher than expected, reviving doubts that the Fed has a clear way to cut rates. Producer prices rose 0.9% last month after 0.0% the previous month, while annual inflation accelerated from 2.4% to 3.3

The Reserve Bank of Australia cut its key rate by 25 basis points to 3.60%, sticking to its pace of one cut per quarter or every other meeting. The RBA noted that inflation is moving in line with expectations, falling to 2.7% y/y on a trimmed mean basis and 2.1% on a headline basis. The central bank