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24 Oct 2024

Still no dip to buy...

The S&P 500 is in its longest stretch without a 1% daily move over the past 2.5 years. Quiet markets tend to be strong markets and strong markets tend to be quiet markets. Source: Willie Delwiche, CMT, CFA @WillieDelwiche on X

23 Oct 2024

If the year ended today, it would be the best year ever for the Gold ETF which is up over 31% in 2024. $GLD

Source: Charlie Bilello

14 Oct 2024

Investors sold the most amount of Treasury Bills in history this week

Source: Bank of America

2 Oct 2024

geopolitical risks are not going away anytime soon...

Lockheed Martin $LMT soars to all-time high 📈 Source: Barchart

1 Oct 2024

Deutsche: S&P 500 has seen its biggest YTD advance of the 21st century so far after 271 days of the year.

Equity markets continue to be carried on by a "magic combo": resilient earnings, a weak dollar, weak oil prices, lower bond yields, favorable macro background (growth surprising on the upside / inflation surprising on the downside), a dovish central bank pivot, and now fresh stimulus out of China. This helps the market "climbing the wall of worry", i.e US elections uncertainty,, Middle East tensions, yen carrytrade unwinding, etc. October is historically a volatile month. Let see if the sp500 can continue to rise in a straight line. Source chart: DB

1 Oct 2024

JUST IN 🚨 : Extreme Greed returns to the Stock Market for the first time since March 🤑 🤑🤑

Source: Barchart, CNN

30 Sep 2024

THE WEEK AHEAD...

👉 In the US >>> 🚨 Fed Chair Powell Speaks - Monday September ISM Manufacturing data - Tuesday JOLTs Jobs data - Tuesday ADP Nonfarm Employment data - Wednesday Initial Jobless Claims - Thursday 🚨 September Jobs Report - Friday 👉 In the rest of the world >>> 🚨 October OPEC Meeting - Wednesday In Europe, the flash CPIs will continue to come in for Germany and the Eurozone. Highlights in Asia include the Tankan survey and industrial production in Japan, as well as PMIs in China.

24 Sep 2024

In case you missed it... Some major breaking news out of China today.

People’s Bank of China Gov. Pan Gongsheng announced a flood of support measures in a rare press conference Tuesday amid a deepening economic slump, including the biggest package yet for housing. Measures went beyond most expectations targeted at property, banks and directly, the equity market. Beijing will cut the amount of cash banks need to have on hand, known as the reserve requirement ratio, or RRR, by 50 basis points in the near term, he said. Pan also said the PBOC would cut the 7-day repo rate by 0.2 percentage points, and signaled that a 0.2-0.25% cut in the loan prime rate could follow. Stocks are flying led by brokers and property. Some other China proxies like iron ore and Aussie are also trading higher. Source: David Ingles

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