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Gold Price Forecast: XAU/USD Stages Mild Recovery Below $2,000, US PCE Data Eyed
Image Source: Unsplash Gold price rebounds to $1,985 amid lower US Treasury yields, weaker USD. The US economy showed an expansion in the third quarter. Market players will monitor the US core Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index (PCE) on Friday. Gold price stages a mild recovery during the early Asian trading hours on Friday. The rebound […]
Quantum Computing Hardware Developers Index Down 7% MTD; Now Only +1% YTD
Image Source: Unsplash Imagine a problem that would take even the world’s fastest supercomputer years to solve being solved in seconds. This is the promise of quantum computing (QC) but, while today’s leading QC firms (see below) still haven’t cracked the code on qubits, the subatomic particles that will eventually replace binary 1s and 0s, the […]
Taking Advantage Of Bond Market Volatility
Image Source: PixabayIn today’s video, we look at increased volatility in bond prices. We discuss a possible bounce and bond yield peak. We also discuss which areas of the market should benefit from peak yields.Video Length: 00:13:41More By This Author:Markets Are Back To The Volatility Hurt Locker Earnings Surprises And Expected Volatility: Your Guide For This […]
Asia Week Ahead: Upcoming Bank Of Japan Meeting And China PMI Reports
The Bank of Japan’s upcoming policy meeting is set to take the spotlight over the week ahead in Asia, and we see a slightly higher chance of another YCC tweak with forward guidance changes. Other key releases to look out for include PMIs in China, Singapore’s retail sales, and inflation figures in Indonesia.Shutterstock Bank of Japan […]
Asia Open: Earnings Season Flop
Image source: PixabayMARKETSUS stocks slid on Thursday due to disappointing third-quarter results from Big Tech companies amid the higher-for-longer Fed mantra.Record concentration means the S&P 500 has never been more dependent on the continued strength of its largest constituents or more vulnerable to an idiosyncratic shock to any of these stocks. Elevated multiples, a rapidly shifting […]
3 Small Cap Stocks Paying Strong Dividends To Shareholders
Image Source: Unsplash Often when it comes to income investing, dividend stock buyers gravitate towards big companies known as large-cap stocks, which have market caps above $10 billion. This is understandable given they tend to have stable businesses with more consistent cash flow.However, income investors should not ignore small-cap stocks. Small-caps have market capitalizations below $2 […]
Macro: Inflation Measures PCE And GDP Deflator
Image Source: PixabayMeasures of inflation GDP price deflator: 3.24% Personal Consumption Expenditure (PCE) Price Index YoY: 3.43% Core PCE (ex-Food and Energy): 3.9% All well above 2% target. All have been coming down. More By This Author:Macro: Initial Unemployment Claims Macro: Durable Goods New Orders Macro: New Residential Sales
Why The Fed’s ‘Pause’ May Not Be Coming
↵Image Source: Unsplash The financial markets (and myself included), have spent the past year and a half waiting for the Federal Reserve to finally announce a pause to their interest rate hiking campaign. And while the Fed has left it’s target funding rate at the 5.25-5.50% range since their last hike at the July meeting, they […]
“Doom & Gloom” Stock Market (And Sentiment Results)
This week, the Wall Street Journal published an article entitled “Another Black Monday May Be Around the Corner.”Fortunately, they wrote it this Sunday (22nd) and it (Black Monday) didn’t take place on Monday (23rd)! Unlike Paul Tudor Jones who called it “Black Monday” the Friday (Oct. 16th) before it actually occurred in 1987 (Oct. 19th), these two academics […]
Stocks And Precious Metals Charts – Option Expiration
The economic data came in a little hot this morning, and with the recent earnings reports flops that served to take the equity markets down.Gold and silver were hit rather hard in honor of an otherwise inconsequential Comex metals options expiration.It’s the spirit, never the substance, of the scam.The Dollar chopped sideways.VIX came in high […]
