There are growing rumours that the Federal Reserve is about to do a pivot. The disturbance in the UK Gilt market sent a warning signal to financial markets that making…
On Friday we have CAD jobs data and the US NFP data. Both reports are worth catching and here is the outlook and what to look out for. Canadian jobs…
The foundation keeping the Fed on an aggressive rate hiking footing has been the US economic data. Although it has been mixed over the last few weeks there have not…
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…
That’s the market’s fear right now – there is more pain to come for stocks and the bottom is not in. At last Friday’s Jackson Hole Symposium Powell communicated to…
Jerome Powell sent stocks sharply lower on Friday as he maintained a hawkish stance for the Fed in its fight against inflation. Remember that high-interest rates make business conditions more…
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…
Jerome Powell is going to have to correct market expectations from the last Fed meeting in July. In July’s meeting, the Fed recognised that some ‘recent indicators of spending and…
There are easier and harder times to trade. Sometimes the outlook for an asset is so clear, so straightforward that the timing of your entry does not matter as the…