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31 Jul 2025

U.S. Dollar Index $DXY now on a 4-day winning streak and is at its highest level in more than 1 month 📈📈

Source: barchart

30 Jul 2025

US earnings growth outperforming.

Source: @fundstrat thru Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT, MBA

30 Jul 2025

Small Cap Stocks are trading at the largest discount relative to Large Caps in AT LEAST 25 years

Source: Barchart

30 Jul 2025

The US has got the softest inflation surprises on Earth...

Could this influence the FOMC tomorrow??? Source: Andreas Steno Larsen @AndreasSteno, Macrobond

30 Jul 2025

June JOLTS job openings rate (white) down to 4.4% vs. 4.6% prior ... quits rate (blue) unchanged at 2%

Source: Bloomberg, Kevin Gordon

30 Jul 2025

The IMF has upgraded its global growth forecast amid signs that Donald Trump’s trade war will do less damage to the world economy than initially feared, helped by a weaker US dollar

Source: FT

29 Jul 2025

LIQUIDITY ALERT >>> The Treasury released their borrowing estimates.

$1.6T in net new debt issuance over the next two quarters. About $500B of it is the TGA refill. Source: Lyn Alden

29 Jul 2025

From TACO (Trump Always Chickens Out) to WACO (World Always Chickens Out)

The world has "chickened out" against Trump, per FT. "America’s trading partners have largely failed to retaliate against Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs, allowing a president taunted for “always chickening out” to raise nearly $50bn in extra customs revenues at little cost. Four months since Trump fired the opening salvo of his trade war, only China and Canada have dared to hit back at Washington imposing a minimum 10 per cent global tariff, 50 per cent levies on steel and aluminium, and 25 per cent on autos. At the same time US revenues from customs duties hit a record high of $64bn in the second quarter — $47bn more than over the same period last year, according to data published by the US Treasury on Friday".

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