Strong seasonals for the S&P500

Ever since the SVB and Credit Suisse banking woes have rippled through global markets interest rate expectations have rapidly changed. However, one potential upside from these shocks is that interest…

Put Merck to work?

Merck & Co is a multinational healthcare US company which is based in New Jersey. Originally founded in Germany Merck is known for its development of medicines, vaccines, and biological…

BMW’s electric dream

BMW is expecting 20% of total sales to be from fully electric models by 2024 and expects 50% of all total sales well ahead of 2030. So, BMW’s electric shift…

Modest Microsoft moves

Since the fallout from the SVB banking crisis, the moves in Microsoft have been fairly modest. Despite the larger falls in the major US indices Microsoft share prices have been…

Silver set to surge?

The Fed is set to meet on Wednesday next week and speculation is growing that silver will surge on falling real yields. The logic is that the SVB crisis will…

Gold looks to Friday’s NFP

On Friday, March 10, the US will release its jobs report for February. In the Fed’s thinking a ‘tight’ (strong) labour market is inflationary. So, if the jobs print comes…

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