🚨 Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Monday that the central bank will not wait until inflation hits 2% to cut interest rates.
Speaking at the Economic Club of Washington D.C., Powell referenced the idea that central bank policy works with “long and variable lags” to explain why the Fed wouldn’t wait for its target to be hit. “The implication of that is that if you wait until inflation gets all the way down to 2%, you’ve probably waited too long, because the tightening that you’re doing, or the level of tightness that you have, is still having effects which will probably drive inflation below 2%,” Powell said. Instead, the Fed is looking for “greater confidence” that inflation will return to the 2% level, Powell said. “What increases that confidence in that is more good inflation data, and lately here we have been getting some of that,” he said. Powell also said he thinks a “hard landing” for the U.S. economy was not “a likely scenario.” Source: CNBC, Radar
Donald Trump has picked Senator JD Vance as his running mate, in a move that could help the former president win votes across the crucial swing states of the US’s industrial Midwest.
Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, less than a decade ago, rose to prominence as a Trump critic. But over the last few years, Vance, 39, has emerged as a Trump loyalist, becoming one of his most vocal defenders in the Senate and a frequent surrogate on television as he called for the party to embrace Trump’s populist agenda. Vance could expand Trump’s appeal in the swing states. Indeed, he hails from the Rust Belt, which includes portions of the critical swing states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. He’s also a Marine veteran, and would be the second youngest vice president — tied with Richard Nixon — if Trump wins in November. Source: FT
No one else even comes close to the US when we’re talking about Space 🚀 launches...
Thanks mainly to SpaceX and Elon Musk Source: Evan
A visual overview of the world's 10 largest public semi conductor companies' market caps:
$NVDA $TSM $AVGO $ASML $TXN $ARM $AMAT $QCOM $AMD Source: Quartr
🚨 Chinese Existing Home Prices declined by 7.9% year-over-year last month, the largest decline in history!
Source: Bloomberg
Monetary policy monetization => 27 of 34 global central banks, or 80% are expected to ease their monetary policy by the end of 2024, the highest since 2021.
By comparison, in July 2023 just 10% of central banks were expected to cut rates. Currently, 42% of central banks have been easing monetary policy. Canada and the European Central Bank were the latest to cut interest rates in June. Meanwhile, the market is pricing the first Fed rate cut in September and a total of 2 cuts this year. Source: The Kobeissi Letter, BofA
The market is increasingly becoming more driven by earnings than multiples.
Source: BofA, Mike Zaccardi
Trump Media shares $DJT surge 50% in premarket trading after assassination attempt
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