Market Update – January 12 – Inflation Day
Stock market sentiment remains supported ahead of the US inflation report, with markets starting to look past the current wave of tightening moves and buying into hopes that final rates will be reached sooner rather than later this year. Yields have come down and stocks are benefiting. Australia and New […]
Market Spotlight: Sainsbury Stock Falls Despite Profits Update
Better Q4 Profits Seen Shares in J Sainsbury, the UK’s second-largest supermarket, are trading lower today despite a better profit outlook for Q4. The group recorded a 7.1% spike in sales in the six weeks leading up to January, while the 16 weeks through to January were 5.2% higher than the previous year. The World […]
Market Update – January 11 – Dollar stands still ahead of Thursday’s CPI
Treasuries were more unidirectional while Yields have crept higher led by the long end. The curve has bear steepened to -65.6 bps from -68 bps Monday and -74 bps before Friday’s data. Wall Street was very choppy, trading either side of unchanged, after a positive opening. Chair Powell did not […]
Market Update – January 10 – Wall Street in a dangerous game ahead of Powell, CPI, earnings
Treasuries remained firm, yields finished off of their lows. Wall Street turned mixed in the afternoon after the US30 and US500 shed their advances. Hawkish Fedspeak from Bostic and Daly generated some cold feet and subsequent profit taking ahead of Fed Chair Powell’s comments later. The advent of $90 bln […]
Market Update – January 9 – USD Index falls 9% from peaks
Trading Leveraged Products is risky Treasury and Wall Street soared on the heels of the NFP data where the net effect is a tempering in Fed rate hike expectations. The markets are cheering the cooling in wage growth and a softer but still resilient labor market. The erosion in the service sector is a bit […]
Market Update – January 3 – JPY & Gold add to gains
Trading Leveraged Products is risky Markets are back to full-time today to kick-start 2023 with a key week topped by NFP data on Friday and undermined by the ongoing rise in Covid cases and deaths in China. Japan and New Zealand remain closed today, but in Asia the ASX (-1.3%) […]
Market Update – January 6
Trading Leveraged Products is risky It was another “good news is bad news” trade with better-than-expected labor market reports boosting fears over a higher for longer stance from the FOMC. Hawkish Fedspeak added to the selloffs in stocks and bonds but supported the Dollar. Wall Street closed over -1.0% in […]
Market Update – January 5 – FOMC: Inflation still Public Enemy No. 1
The FOMC minutes continued to show inflation was the overriding concern. Participants generally noted that upside risks to the inflation outlook “remained a key factor” for policy. It was repeated that a restrictive stance would have to be maintained for a sustained period until inflation was “clearly” on a path […]
Market Update – January 4 – USD & JPY hold gains, Stocks flat & Oil tanks
The first full day of 2023 saw stocks flat, a bid for the Greenback & Yen, weaker EUR following softer German CPI data and Oil markets collapse on global growth worries. Treasuries are firmer with US10yr yields losing -2.61%. Overnight Asian stocks have traded mostly firmer despite the negative handover […]