Market Overview

The financial markets have been volatile this year, to say the least. And much of the volatility has been tied to inflationary concerns and rising interest rates via the Federal Reserve.That said,...

Inverted yield hikes in U.S. and Europe are forecasting recession Investor focus in Fed’s meeting is on inflation and rate forecasts Policymakers at the ECB and the Bank of England have mixed...

Consumer confidence has bounced off near record lows in December, with house price expectations climbing more than 27%.The Westpac-Melbourne Institute Consumer Confidence Index lifted 3% from the...

It’s a GasOn a wet and windy winter’s day in summer, the ASX200 closed down -32 points, having been as low as down -57 late morning yesterday. The topic of the day’s conversation...

Inflation and the Fed once again are taking center stage for investors. First, were signs of wages inflation being hotter than expected to start December. Next came an unwelcome increase in the...

Core CPI is more likely to surprise to the upside than to the downside on Tuesday Still, save for an outlier inflation reading, the Fed will raise rates by 50bps on Wednesday The equity market is...

DXY is testing the bottom of its recent range:   AUD is the inverse:Shorts are slowly diminishing:Oil is the great white hope for lower prices but more recession:  Dirt was firm:Big miners...

The relief rally on Wall Street finished before it even started with a rout on Friday night almost sending US stocks back to their previous weekly lows, which will be a negative dampener on sentiment...

Hey, do you remember that awesome rally after Powell’s speech last week...and how the bulls were claiming victory as stocks went soaring above the 200 day moving average? Yes, that bout of...

Focus is likely to shift from the pace of rate hikes to their destination at the upcoming Fed meeting Currently, the market is pricing a significant amount of rate cuts in 2023. This may come at odds...

With next week’s US CPI print and FOMC meeting offering the potential for further market volatility, it feels like these landmines are a fitting end to an incredibly eventful 2022.We look back...

Bit of a DownerSlight weakness on Wall Street led the ASX200 lower in the first hour yesterday, and when the index reached 7200 it was all over. There was no support to be found. An hour later the...

Inflation is easing, or so recent data shows. The debate is now centered on how fast and how far pricing pressure will slide — or if the recent easing is a head fake. In other words, it’s...

Are we already in a recession? While most investors expect that a recession will come in 2023, we believe that we are already in a recession. We will go into more details about each subsector in...