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Week Ahead - BoE to keep hiking, US jobs and eurozone inflation eyed

With inflation steadily cooling, the Fed’s historic tightening campaign appears to be ending. The focus on Wall Street won’t just be inflation but now also economic activity. The upcoming week will be filled with several economic readings. On Monday, we will see two Fed regional surveys. The MNI Chicago PMI is expected to slightly improve while the Dallas Fed manufacturing activity report remains deeply in negative territory.

28-07-2023 15:17 GMT by Craig Erlam

FTSE - China Stimulus Promise, Unilever Rallies After Results, Fed and ECB eyed

Chinese stimulus hopes fails to lift the FTSE Unilever among best performers in the index after reporting earnings UK100 not far from all-time highs It's been another relatively flat session for equity markets, with investors seemingly having one eye on the Fed and ECB later in the week despite a strong showing in Chinese stocks earlier in the day. They were lifted by the promise of Chinese stimulus following the Politburo meeting this week and some potential relief for property market.

25-07-2023 12:46 GMT by Craig Erlam

FTSE 100 - Slips as Chinese economic data disappoints once more

Chinese growth fears mount after GDP data Rate cut not coming yet from PBOC FTSE 100 nearing some key levels

17-07-2023 12:42 GMT by Craig Erlam

FTSE 100 - Tentatively higher with an eye on US inflation data

Attention remains on US inflation data today Only a much lower core CPI reading could tempt the Fed to reconsider hiking in two weeks UK100 rebounds but caution may remain unless key level is overcome

12-07-2023 06:25 GMT by Craig Erlam

Tentative AI trade setback; Housing market strength

Wall Street awaits Fed Chair Powell and counterparts at ECB forum Mortgage demand rises for a 3rd straight week 10-year Treasury yield down 1.9 bps to 3.745%

28-06-2023 09:15 GMT by Edward Moya

Stocks rebound on strong data and AI interest

Global bond yields rise; 10-year Treasury rises 4.1bps to 3.762% Consumer Confidence hits highest levels since January 2022 Dow eyes first gain in 7 trading days US stocks are bouncing back after some strong US economic data gave a boost to consumer discretionary stocks and as investors piled back into AI trades. The losing streak had to end, but that doesn’t mean the market will resume.

27-06-2023 14:16 GMT by Edward Moya

Week Ahead - Inflation and Recession Risks

While Europe appears at great risk for a recession as traders bet on aggressive rate rises by all the European central banks, the Fed is still expected to be nearing the end of their respective rate hiking campaign. The focus in the US will fall on the PCE readings. If inflation comes down as expected, the swap futures might grow even more confident that the Fed will only deliver one more rate hike.

23-06-2023 15:16 GMT by Edward Moya

AI FOMO versus economic realities

“Artificial Intelligence” (AI) equity-theme plays are the main contributor so far in the current bull market. Non-technology companies are now jumping into the AI-related bandwagon. The gap between current AI optimism and economic cyclical factors has widened.

21-06-2023 04:04 GMT by Kelvin Wong

Week Ahead - Turkey decides, crucial US jobs report, x-date fast approaching

US Street is starting to get nervous as we near the X-date. A US default seemed unimaginable a couple of weeks ago and despite a lot of positive comments from both sides, negotiations will go down to the wire and that means the risk that it falls apart is growing. Treasury Secretary Yellen will soon provide an update on the X-date and that could show talks might have an extra week from the current June 1st deadline to get a deal done.

26-05-2023 12:45 GMT by Craig Erlam

Stocks rally on Nvidia's AI fervor and debt deal optimism

Fed swaps earlier priced in a quarter-point rate rise by July FOMC Meeting 10-year Treasury yield rises 4.4 bps to 3.784% Nvidia delivers biggest one-day market value gain in US history

25-05-2023 12:23 GMT by Edward Moya

Week Ahead - Debt ceiling drama, Turkish rate decision pre-Presidential run-off

Wall Street will remain focused on debt ceiling drama, a plethora of Fed speak, flash PMIs, and bank stress. It will be a busy week filled with economic releases, with most of the attention falling on the first look at the May PMI readings, a second look at Q1 GDP/Core PCE, New Home Sales, and the FOMC meeting minutes.

19-05-2023 12:29 GMT by Craig Erlam

US Close - Unsettling volatility, stocks crushed, GBP plunges, oil tanks, gold gutted, bitcoin lower

Unsettling market volatility is going to be here for a while as Wall Street broadly downgrades their end of year S&P 500 targets. The bond market is telling us they firmly believe Fed Chair Powell has rolled up his sleeves and is ready for this fight with inflation to get ugly.

23-09-2022 14:22 GMT by Edward Moya

NZ dollar falls to 26-month low

NZD/USD remains under pressure and is trading below the symbolic 0.60 level. Earlier today, the pair fell to 0.5976, its lowest level since May 2020. New Zealand dollar slides after US inflation data It was Black Tuesday for the New Zealand dollar, as NZD/USD declined by 2.24%.

14-09-2022 07:50 GMT by Kenneth Fisher

Week Ahead - Fear returns ahead of inflation data

Can the Fed afford to ease off the brake? The end of last week was a bit of a reality check for investors that were maybe getting a little carried away with the supposed "dovish pivot" from the Fed and turning a blind eye to the data and what central bank policymakers were saying. Perhaps the experience of the last 12 months can explain the latter but there's no ignoring the data that we saw on Friday. The US economy is certainly not behaving like it's in a recession; rather the labour mar

05-08-2022 12:10 GMT by Craig Erlam

Week Ahead - Bring on the Fed

Europe took centre stage last week as leaders waited nervously to see if gas would start flowing through Nord Stream 1 again following scheduled maintenance (it did) and the ECB raised its deposit rate to 0%, ending eight years of negative rates. Next week the focus switches back to the US which has a big interest rate decision of its own and a number of major earnings reports.

22-07-2022 12:22 GMT by Craig Erlam

US Close: Panic ahead of the Fed, S&P 500 back in Bear Market, King Dollar, Oil market to remain very tight, Gold weakens, Crypto crash

US stocks only had one way to go after inflation fears intensified and raised the risk of stronger tightening by the Fed and a much sooner recession. Wall Street is facing a plethora of negative headlines, but the problem is that until we see a deterioration with credit conditions and market functioning, the Fed has the greenlight to tighten as much as possible to get inflation under control. An ugly inflation report is being followed by a ‘ferocious’ COVID outbreak in Beijing that will weigh

13-06-2022 16:40 GMT by Edward Moya

US Close - S&P 500 enters bear market, Fading Rallies, Deere shares hit hard, Footlocker rallies, Oil rises, Gold steady, Bitcoin lower

At the beginning of the year, no one thought that the S&P 500 was headed to bear market territory, but persistent inflation, another Fed policy mistake, and recession fears have unnerved investors. The S&P 500 has lost over 20% of its value from the January high and it seems that that technical selling will only accelerate. The way macro backdrop is unfolding, it seems traders will continue to fade any rallies that emerge until the Fed starts to show signs that they are worried about financial

20-05-2022 15:21 GMT by Edward Moya

Equities make a U-turn, head south

New York slump sends Asian equities lower New York equity markets did a massive volte-face overnight and decided that Jerome Powell had been hawkish after all and that higher rates and recession risks were a higher possibility. The Wednesday relief rally vanished into thin air as US stock markets saw every sector in every index get thrashed.

06-05-2022 03:54 GMT by Jeffrey Halley

Stocks struggle to stabilize as markets focus on Russia-Ukraine talks, Musk still hodling cryptos

Investors eye Fed tightening US stocks are trying to stabilize as investors await Fed tightening and as optimism over diplomatic efforts to end the war in Ukraine fades. Financial markets are still expecting the US economy to be in decent shape even as the economic impact from widespread pricing pressures continue.

14-03-2022 14:32 GMT by Edward Moya

Asian equities are cautiously higher

Asian markets eye Ukraine-Russia talks Overnight, news that a second Ukraine-Russia meeting in sunny Belarus sparked a relief rally in equities markets, which was given more momentum as Jerome Powell signally the Fed would only hike 0.25% this month, instead of 0.50%. As I said previously, peak-Ukraine FOMO is strong in equity markets right now, and the outcome of today’s meeting will dictate entirely whether this is yet another sucker’s rally.

03-03-2022 04:19 GMT by Jeffrey Halley

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