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Market Insights Podcast (Episode 284)
OANDA Senior Market Analyst Ed Moya previews the day's market news with Jonny Hart. They discussed markets, both UK and Canadian CPI data reaching highest level in three decades, recap Goldman Sach's earnings, oil hitting a seven-year high, China's GDP data, and the recent bond market volatility.
by Edward Moya
US Close: Stocks selloff as bond yields soar, Empire Survey plunges, NAHB edges lower, Goldman shows employees the money
The stocks market is selling off after disappointing earnings from Goldman Sachs, the Empire State manufacturing survey showed growth stalled in January, and as surging yields have investors abandoning rate-sensitive sectors such as technology. The emergence of skyrocketing expenses for Wall Street banks has many investors worried that wage inflation may have been broadly underpriced across the entire US economy. US data The Empire manufacturing data delivered a massive miss as omicron cripple
by Edward Moya
US Close: Wage inflation worries send stocks lower, US data
US stocks struggled after the big banks had a rough start to earnings season.  JPMorgan shares dropped sharply over fears that surging expenses and wage inflation may lead to a greater profit miss over the next couple of years. Risk appetite did not get any favors from a wrath of US economic data that missed expectations, raising fears that the underlying recovery is vulnerable.
by Edward Moya
Week Ahead - Interest rate anxiety heightened
It's been a turbulent start to the year in the markets and that's unlikely to change as we move into earnings season. Fear of high inflation and accelerated monetary tightening is driving much of the volatility that we're seeing in financial markets over the last couple of weeks and that's unlikely to abate any time soon, with peak inflation still probably ahead of us.
by Craig Erlam
US Close: Tech gets crushed again, Fed ready to hike in March, PPI cools, Earnings on deck
Big Tech stocks are selling off so dramatically as a product of, ‘yes US rates are likely to go up further this year,' but also as investors rotate into value and cyclical trades.  A recent chorus of Fed speakers that have said they are open to raising interest rates in March, which means the possibility of 4 rate hikes this year is growing. Wall Street is trying to get a sense of how much growth is going to slow and the banks will start providing some insight on Friday. Harker’s stance on infl
by Edward Moya
Commodities and Cryptos: Oil dips, Gold off highs, Bitcoin lower
Oil Crude prices edged lower as political pressure grew for the White House to lobby OPEC+ to make sure the group as a whole can hit their quotas as a few members have struggled. The short-term outlook still has many risks, but optimism is high that will be short-lived.  Delta CEO Ed Bastian expects omicron to delay the rebound in travel demand by 60 days.  The oil market will remain very tight this year and most likely over the next few years as most energy companies are not investing in massi
by Edward Moya
US Close: Markets embrace lengthy Balance Sheet runoff debate, Fed readies March hike
US stocks went on a rollercoaster ride after Fed Chair Powell’s testimony signaled that the Fed “in all likelihood” will be normalizing policy, while allowing the balance-sheet runoff later this year. The Fed sees inflation lasting till mid-2022 and that is probably when they will let the balance sheet decline. Wall Street now has a better understanding on how the Fed will normalize policy and with the balance runoff likely taking up to four meetings.
by Edward Moya
US Close: Stocks slump as inflation fears drive Fed rate hike expectations, Dollar follows Treasury yields
US stocks are sliding as surging pricing pressures have the Fed on a fast-track to get rates back to neutral.  Every trader over the weekend read the Goldman note that eyed four Fed rates hikes and balance sheet runoff in July, if not sooner. Surging yields are kryptonite for many tech stocks and that theme won't change until after we get past the first couple rate hikes. Today is all about risk aversion as fears grow that financial markets completely misread the Fed's scramble to battle inflat
by Edward Moya
US Close: Mixed Session, US Data, Yields rally, Lira weakens
US stocks were mixed as some traders found value in the heavily beaten-up tech sector, while some were hesitant to put on massive positions before Friday’s nonfarm payroll report. The big question for many traders' is how high yields will go up and at one point will it become a problem for the economy.  Most of Wall Street has an upbeat outlook for 2022, but the risks of a Fed policy mistake, US geopolitical tensions with both Russia and China, and inflationary pressures, pose serious risks to t
by Edward Moya
Asia follows Wall Street south
Hawkish FOMC minutes send equity markets lower Wall Street had a torrid session as a hawk FOMC minutes highlighted the amount of post-omicron speculative longs positions that were out there. Technology came in for particular attention, the Nasdaq suffering its biggest one-day drop in nearly a year.
by Jeffrey Halley
US Close: ISM shows pricing pressures ease, Jolts show the Great Resignation continues, Fed's dove sees 2 hikes in 2022
It wasn’t much of a rally, but we did get a Santa rally.  The second trading day of the New Year marks the end of the Santa rally and more importantly the latest updates over how quickly global supply constraints are easing, but sadly that might not last due to omicron.  US stocks could not hold onto earlier gains as tech stocks got pummeled over fears that Treasury yields will go much higher.
by Edward Moya
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