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Fed Meeting Tomorrow: What To Expect

Fed Meeting Tomorrow: What To Expect

Image Source: DepositPhotosThe eyes of the finance world are on the United States, as the Fed meets today and tomorrow to discuss decisions on interest rates at their policy meeting on March 19th and 20th.This week’s FOMC meeting, followed by a press conference by chair Jerome Powell tomorrow afternoon, promises to be especially significant.For the first […]
Asian Stock: WPG Holdings

Asian Stock: WPG Holdings

TM Editors’ note: This article discusses a penny stock and/or microcap. Such stocks are easily manipulated; do your own careful due diligence.Company: WPG Holdings LimitedBloomberg ticker: 3702 TTMarket cap: US$4,700mBackground: WPG Holdings Limited is a Taiwanese company that distributes electronic components such as computer chipsets, memory-integrated chips, and application-specific standard product (ASSP) ICs. The company serves as OEM and […]
Tuesday Talk: Still Talk Of The Town – Inflation

Tuesday Talk: Still Talk Of The Town – Inflation

Inflation doesn’t seem to be moving higher, but its downward trajectory seems to have slowed to a crawl, around 3.2%, which is keeping interest rates higher than anticipated, but also keeping the brakes on runaway inflation.UnsplashOn Monday the S&P 500 closed at 5,149, up 32 points, the Dow closed at 38,790, up 76 points and the […]
Solana’s Impressive Surge: Breaking $200 And Beyond

Solana’s Impressive Surge: Breaking $200 And Beyond

Solana chart analysisThe price of Solana rose above the $200.00 level for the first time this year on Sunday. Yesterday, the price continued to rise until reaching the $209.90 level. We stopped there and started a pullback to the first support at $195.00. There, we encountered the EMA50 moving average, which stopped the fall of Solana.In the […]
Financial Conditions Make A Monetary Roundtrip And Undercut The Need For Rate Cuts

Financial Conditions Make A Monetary Roundtrip And Undercut The Need For Rate Cuts

Last week, financial markets stared in dismay at “sticky” inflation numbers on the consumer and wholesale side. Both the CPI (consumer price index) and wholesale inflation (the producer price index or PPI) printed slightly higher than “expected” (headline and core). While overall momentum still favors an eventual confirmation for those who declared inflation dead last year, a more important reality […]
Analytical Overview Of The Main Currency Pairs – Tuesday, March 19

Analytical Overview Of The Main Currency Pairs – Tuesday, March 19

The EUR/USD currency pairTechnical indicators of the currency pair: Prev Open: 1.0888 Prev Close: 1.0871 % chg. over the last day: -0.15 % On Monday, the euro initially moved up on the back of rising German bond yields, with the 10-year German bond yield rising to a two-week high. But then the euro gave up early gains and moved […]
The Commodities Feed: Energy Supply Risks

The Commodities Feed: Energy Supply Risks

Image Source: Pixabay  Energy markets continue to move higher, buoyed by growing supply risks following disruptions to Russian refinery capacity.  Energy – Crude hits highest levels since NovemberThe oil market rallied further yesterday, with ICE Brent settling more than 1.8% higher on a day which saw Brent briefly trading above US$87/bbl and its highest levels since […]
USD/CHF Forex Signal: Building Pressure Against Franc

USD/CHF Forex Signal: Building Pressure Against Franc

Potential signal: I am a buy on a move above the 200-Day EMA on a daily close. Stop loss is at the 0.8770 level, and I am moving to break even as soon as we hit 0.89 above. Target is 0.9090. The dollar initially pulled back against the Swiss franc in trading on Monday as […]
Blackout Of Buybacks Threatens Bullish Run

Blackout Of Buybacks Threatens Bullish Run

With the last half of March upon us, the blackout of stock buybacks threatens to reduce one of the liquidity sources supporting the bullish run this year. If you don’t understand the importance of corporate share buybacks and the blackout periods, here is a snippet of a 2023 article I previously wrote. “The chart below via Pavilion […]
Bitcoin Commentary – Tuesday, March 19

Bitcoin Commentary – Tuesday, March 19

BTC Moving LowerThe Bitcoin rout continues to deepen on Tuesday with BTC futures now down around 14% from the YTD highs. Following the breakout to fresh record highs last week, BTC has come under sustained selling pressure with futures currently on track to record their fourth consecutive losing day. There has been plenty of chatter […]