May 28 – June 3, 2023 FEAR NOT Brave Investors Where have we been and where are we going? Join our weekly market thread on Traders Community… The Week That Was – What Lies Ahead? Contents Click on the links below to navigate to the relevant section. Editorial Let’s start off with the best news, Thursday is the first day of the meteorological summer! For financial markets last week was all about the sensational run by NVDA after its spectacular … Continue reading “Traders Market Weekly: Summer, Manufacturing, Jobs and Debt Ceiling”
Traders Market Weekly: NVidia, AI and The Debt Ceiling
May 21-27, 2023 FEAR NOT Brave Investors Where have we been and where are we going? Join our weekly market thread on Traders Community… The Week That Was – What Lies Ahead? Contents Click on the links below to navigate to the relevant section. Editorial Markets churned with the renewed debt ceiling theatrics and a confused, some would say out of touch G-7 that unnerved bonds and currency markets. Meanwhile the immediate FOMO stock markets went along with the little … Continue reading “Traders Market Weekly: NVidia, AI and The Debt Ceiling”
Traders Market Weekly: Debt Ceilings and The Consumer
May 13-19, 2023 FEAR NOT Brave Investors Where have we been and where are we going? Join our weekly market thread on Traders Community… The Week That Was – What Lies Ahead? Contents Click on the links below to navigate to the relevant section. Editorial Equity markets appear to be in a state of flux, looking at the VIX, there appears to be no fear, however looking outside the financial market world despair and pain is plain to see. A … Continue reading “Traders Market Weekly: Debt Ceilings and The Consumer”
Traders Market Weekly: Inflation and Bank Run Charades
May 7-13, 2023 FEAR NOT Brave Investors Where have we been and where are we going? Join our weekly market thread on Traders Community… The Week That Was – What Lies Ahead? Contents Click on the links below to navigate to the relevant section. Editorial instability reigns supreme, from financial markets through to domestic politics to geopolitical powder kegs. Banks at this point appear as a giant charade, who collapses next and which major bank picks up assets for a … Continue reading “Traders Market Weekly: Inflation and Bank Run Charades”
Traders Market Weekly: Bank Runs, Apple, Fed and Jobs
May 1-7, 2023 FEAR NOT Brave Investors Where have we been and where are we going? Join our weekly market thread on Traders Community… The Week That Was – What Lies Ahead? Contents Click on the links below to navigate to the relevant section. Editorial Three major events stood out for us last week, the reaction to BoJ Governor Ueda’s first BoJ meeting, the post OPEC+ gap fill for oil futures and the collapse of another US regional bank, the. … Continue reading “Traders Market Weekly: Bank Runs, Apple, Fed and Jobs”
Traders Market Weekly: The Meaning of Market Volatility (or Lack of) Risk
April 13-29, 2023 FEAR NOT Brave Investors Where have we been and where are we going? Join our weekly market thread on Traders Community… The Week That Was – What Lies Ahead? Contents Click on the links below to navigate to the relevant section. Editorial The S&P 500 closed at 4,137 last Friday, at 4,133 this Friday. The winner has been the option vol sellers. Earnings season has seen some swift moves, despite this volatility has come in sharply, some … Continue reading “Traders Market Weekly: The Meaning of Market Volatility (or Lack of) Risk”
Traders Market Weekly: Climbing The Wall of Worry
April 16-22, 2023 FEAR NOT Brave Investors Where have we been and where are we going? Join our weekly market thread on Traders Community… The Week That Was – What Lies Ahead? Contents Click on the links below to navigate to the relevant section. Editorial We keep reading about the end of the world, Russia has already attacked Ukraine, China threatens Taiwan with flyovers, Paris burns, US banks collapse, the US political environment is toxic. Blind partisanship keeps President Biden … Continue reading “Traders Market Weekly: Climbing The Wall of Worry”
Traders Market Weekly: Banks Earnings Outlooks Dominate
April 9-16, 2023 FEAR NOT Brave Investors Where have we been and where are we going? Join our weekly market thread on Traders Community… The Week That Was – What Lies Ahead? Contents Click on the links below to navigate to the relevant section. Editorial Last week began with a touch of geopolitical aggression from the friendly mob at OPEC+ doing their best to help out their Russian friends. OPEC+ announced a surprise cut of over 1 million barrel per … Continue reading “Traders Market Weekly: Banks Earnings Outlooks Dominate”
Reserve Bank of New Zealand Unexpectantly Raise Rates by 50bp to 5.25% to Highest Since December 2008
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand aggressive hiking cycle continues. It raised its Official Cash Rate by another 50 bps to 5.25%, as expected. Consensus almost unanimously expected another 25bps hike. The Reserve Bank of Australia yesterday kept interest rates steady at 3.6%. The RBNZ was the first central bank in a developed money market to raise its cash rate above the neutral level. The bank’s committee members agreed monetary conditions needed to continue to tighten until inflation back in … Continue reading “Reserve Bank of New Zealand Unexpectantly Raise Rates by 50bp to 5.25% to Highest Since December 2008”
Traders Market Weekly: Good Friday Jobs Risk
April 2-8, 2023 FEAR NOT Brave Investors Where have we been and where are we going? Join our weekly market thread on Traders Community… The Week That Was – What Lies Ahead? Contents Click on the links below to navigate to the relevant section. Editorial Climbing a wall of worry was all to see this past week. U.S. stocks, bonds flinched and then rocked higher in spite of themselves with the banking quagmire from New York and Californian regional banks … Continue reading “Traders Market Weekly: Good Friday Jobs Risk”