A recent opinion piece in Bloomberg highlighted that the latest budget deal successfully suspended the debt ceiling, averting a potential debt default. However, it also pointed out that this measure does little…
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is a stock market index that tracks the performance of 30 large, publicly-traded companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and the NASDAQ.…
The world has been engaged in a constant game of Fed watching since the Federal Reserve indicated that a turn in policy, from loose to tight, would be on the…
Trying to time the market is a significant challenge that even professional investors struggle with. So, there are a couple of simple points that can help those wanting a more…
Earnings from big-name companies like Apple, Amazon, Facebook (Meta), and Google (Alphabet) have the power to move whole indexes like the S&P500. As these big-name stocks have a large weighting…
The Fed is widely expected to hike interest rates by 75bps this Wednesday. Short-term interest rate markets are seeing it as a 100% probability and the same markets have a…
Since the start of the month we have increasingly seen hopes of a Fed ‘soft landing’ gain traction as US stocks made another run higher. However, hopes of a soft…
A trend is very simply a directional movement of price that remains in effect long enough to be identified and still be profitable. Recently there has been much debate over…
The key market this week was the bond market. A sharp sell-off gripped the gilt markets (UK bond market) post the high UK inflation print. Bunds (German bond market) followed…
As we start the second half of 2022 investors remain focused on these major fears outlined in our previous article. However, the growing risk for the second half of 2022…