When interest rates are rising financial stocks tend to gain. The higher interest rates charged can lead to higher margins on financial products which can boost the profitability of financial…
The recent string of better than feared US economic data has allowed equity markets to price out some of the more severe recession fears. Last week the US ISM manufacturing…
Last Friday Canadian jobs printed below expectations with drops in the headline figure and the participation rate. However, the labour market is still fairly robust with the unemployment rate falling…
Nvidia has a strong summer seasonal pattern. It is an American multinational technology company that is based in Santa Clara in California. With all the speculation that the Federal Reserve…
Costco is a consumer staples stock that would likely find buyers in a recessionary environment. So, with the US in a technical recession, is the discount retailer going to…
The Reserve Bank of Australia has now switched to a meeting-by-meeting basis in a copy of the Fed’s move in July. The key phrase was that the RBA is ‘not…
There are different ways to trade gold markets and one way is to trade a gold mining index instead of, or as well as, spot gold. The reasons for gold’s…
The Bank of England meets on Thursday at 12:00 GMT and expectations from the STIR markets are 100% for a 25 bps hike and 845% for a 50 bps rate…
The gold/silver ratio points to a high value in silver The gold/silver ratio is a helpful tool for assessing when it may be better to be in gold or silver…
The JPY tends to strengthen around the summer and you can see that bias play out in the USDJPY pair. Over the last 22 years, the USDJPY has fallen 14…