Market Overview

DXY is off to the races:AUD massacre:That giant sucking sound you can hear is north Asian capital flows:Oil and gold will get hit if it runs:Dirt yawn:Big miners bloodletting:EM too:Junk...

The January effect, named for the perceived market anomaly where stock returns in January are higher than in other months, has been a subject of interest since it was first written about in...

The NSW Government has reengineered what was once the Active Kids voucher program and the Creative Kids voucher program, with the new Active and Creative Kids voucher program to launch next month. ...

A long weekend for Wall Street saw a lack of direction from other risk markets with European shares taking back their Friday night gains while ECB speakers continued to deny rate cuts are on the...

DXY looks to be firming:AUD does not look well:The north Asian headwind is blowing a gale:Oil fell, gold firmed:Dirt is going nowhere:EM yawn:Junk hope:US markets were shut:But Europe fell:The key to...

The Fed has been running QT for a while and yet there is still abundant liquidity in the financial system.Fed’s bond holdings are down $1.3 trillion from their peak (due to QT), yet only half of...

US markets will be closed today, making for another short week. This will be an option expiration week with the VIX on Wednesday and Monthly stock OPEX on Friday.This will open a window for increased...

For more than half, meanwhile, the first sign that a borrower is struggling to meet their commitments would be a missed repayment. Key points Many lenders don't have the capacity to properly assess...

In the most recent BLS employment report, the percentage of full-time jobs relative to the population dropped sharply.The robust headline number of 216,000 led most media commentators to suggest a...

I’m changing the way I do the monthly CPI analysis. Doing it live for an audience was always stressful, especially with the inevitable data issues from time to time.Of course, as an inflation...

DXY is stalled:North Asia’s widowmakers are weak:Gold fell. Oil firmed:AUD fell:Metals are going nowhere:Miners down:EM shame:Junk hope:Yields down:Stocks eased:US CPI was a touch firmer than...

The latest US CPI print saw risk markets again destabilise as the USD initially went higher alongside bond yields before a late turnaround. European shares continued to retrace lower while Euro itself...

After a gentle disinflationary easing (Goldilocks), the bond market is hinting at an inflationary steepening of the 10-2 Year Treasury Yield Spread.A yield curve can steepen under inflationary or...

In December, the consumer price index (CPI) in the United States rose by 3.4% year-over-year (YoY), marking the highest increase in three months, as reported by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics...