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25 Mar 2024

In case you missed it:

After bank of japan abolished negative interest rates this week for 1st time since 2016, the volume of bonds with negative interest rates has shrunk to $300mln. At its peak, there was a volume of $18tn worth of bonds with negative rates. But this weird experiment seems to be over – for now. Source: HolgerZ, Bloomberg

22 Mar 2024

The Fed wants to loosen into what has already been the largest effective easing of financial conditions that we've seen from peak to trough...

equity markets, gold and digitalgold absolutely love it! Source: Markets & Mayhem

22 Mar 2024

Turkey raises benchmark rate unexpectedly by 500bps to 50%.

But main rate still way below inflation of 67.1%. Source: Bloomberg, HolgerZ

22 Mar 2024

If one ignores dividends gold has been able to keep up with equities since Nixon ended things in 1971.

Source: Michel A.Arouet, Bloomberg

22 Mar 2024

BREAKING: Japan's core inflation accelerates to 2.8%, the first increase in 4 months.

Japan's core inflation has now been above the Bank of Japan's 2% target for 23 consecutive months. Source: Win Smart

22 Mar 2024

Here are the Equally-weighted Nasdaq100 and S&P500.

If these two are above their former cycle highs, it's hard to be too bearish on this market. Source: J-C Parets

22 Mar 2024

Crude Oil is approaching a Golden Cross formation with an upward sloping 200D moving average.

The last Golden Cross sent Crude Oil soaring to its highest price since August/September 2022. Source: Barchart

22 Mar 2024

It took Gold ETFs 5 years to cross $50 Billion AUM.

Bitcoin did it in 57 days. Source: Bloomberg, Wells Fargo

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