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Investors need more time to assess Fed comments
Investors are still assessing Wednesday’s hawkish comments from the Fed as well as the many signals that the US economy is cooling. After reaching new highs yesterday, Wall Street indices retreated...
June 14, 2024 at 09:08 am EDT
Only one rate cut this year?
The Fed and its chairman Jerome Powell reclaimed the narrative yesterday, as it revised downwards its projections for the pace of rate cuts this year. Powell said that we should only expect one more...
June 13, 2024 at 09:20 am EDT
This is getting interesting...
A big day ahead for the financial markets, with the Fed’s decision on key rates. Will they come down sooner than expected? The answer will come this afternoon. This morning, investors cheered a...
June 12, 2024 at 09:33 am EDT
Investors aren't fooled
Today, we'll be talking about Apple and OpenAI, the US job market, European politics and dragon boats, trying not to get everything mixed up. We'll have to wait until tomorrow to know the Fed's stance...
June 11, 2024 at 09:05 am EDT
All eyes on the Fed
While Wall Street changes its forecast on key interest rates again and again, Europe sees a rise in the far-right protest vote in parliament. The week will be marked by two central bank meetings,...
June 10, 2024 at 08:23 am EDT
The job report just threw a spanner in the works
Investors were eagerly awaiting one of their favorite data, that has the power to take markets to new records, or get them to recede. I’m talking about the monthly US employment figures - known as...
June 07, 2024 at 08:51 am EDT
The first rate cut
The ECB has cut rates for the first time since 2019, from 4% to 3.75%. This is the first rate cut among the world's largest economic blocs and investors are happy, although they want to know more...
June 06, 2024 at 09:14 am EDT
The odds of rates getting cut in 2024 may be better than you think
On the eve of a highly-anticipated U.S. monthly employment report, of a likely ECB rate cut and equity markets are still confused, but cautiously optimistic.
June 05, 2024 at 09:46 am EDT
Just when you think you've got it all figured out...
It's often said that bad economic news is good news for equity markets, but that didn't work out so well yesterday. Bad news remained bad news. But perhaps the equity markets are also confused by...
June 04, 2024 at 09:15 am EDT
A rate cut is finally in sight
The last week of May 2024 has been a bearish one for equities, for gold and for oil. It saw many assets fall, with the notable exception of bonds, which worked in reverse . But there are signs of...
June 03, 2024 at 09:45 am EDT
Disaster averted
In April, the equity markets put an end to five consecutive months of rebound to catch their breath. May saw a return to the green for the main stock market indices, barring an uncontrolled slide in...
May 31, 2024 at 08:58 am EDT
A new phase for the market
Record highs are slipping away for several stock markets, caught up in doubts about the future of key interest rates. Financiers seem to have misplaced the immunity totem offered by Nvidia last week....
May 30, 2024 at 09:23 am EDT
The return of rate hikes?
Global indices are in the red today, weighed down by big tech stocks, which are struggling due to higher Treasury yields triggered by a worrying speech from a very respected Fed official. Investors...
May 29, 2024 at 09:26 am EDT
Behind the numbers - $24 billion, the valuation of Musk's xAI startup
Less than a year after its creation, Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company is already worth $24 billion. Let's find out more... The not-to-be-missed story behind important numbers, in one minute...
May 29, 2024 at 06:04 am EDT
Investors are bracing for today's major change
Wall Street reopens after the long Memorial Day weekend, and serious business resumes today, with fairly dense macroeconomic news ahead of the week's two major events: May inflation in the eurozone...
May 28, 2024 at 09:06 am EDT
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