1 Minute Market Rundown – 20th April 2022 April 20, 2022 Russia – UkraineCrypto ConsolidatesPowell to Speak Later in the Week We highlighted Yen weakness as the current theme and that continues yesterday as the JPY slid to a 2 decade low against the USD trading above 129.00. Overnight and this morning we are seeing the USD pare back its losses – not all too unsurprising [...]
1 Minute Market Rundown – 13th April 2022 April 13, 2022 Russia – UkraineCore CPI a Touch SofterCrypto ConsolidatesEarnings in Focus US CPI was the key focus of the markets yesterday. As we predicted, the bar was set high for the print as the markets expectations of a hawkish FED has run rampant. As such the USD was sold off following the print, as we thought [...]
1 Minute Market Rundown – 1st April 2022 April 1, 2022 Russia – UkraineQ1 finally behind usCrypto consolidates Well we can finally put Q1 behind us. A war few expected to happen, nominal yields had a move not often seen, oil soaring and stocks…well that’s a bit more mixed as looking at the S&P performance on the quarter you would be forgiven if you forgot how [...]
1 Minute Market Rundown – 30th March 2022 March 30, 2022 Russia – Ukraine de-escalation?Asian Stocks higherCrypto consolidates Risk continues to trade firm overnight and this morning as the market begins to see the path of least resistance as a de-escalation in geopolitical risks from the Ukraine invasion. It would take a brave person to say we are completely out of the woods but it is [...]
1 Minute Market Rundown – 24th March 2022 March 24, 2022 Russia – UkraineYields in focusCrypto consolidates Rates markets continue to dominate proceedings with yields continuing to push higher but risk is holding in rather well. Looking across equities and crypto it feels like the dips are getting shallower and we are putting in higher lows. We have been saying crypto has been quietly bid and [...]
1 Minute Market Rundown – 22nd March 2022 March 22, 2022 Russia – UkraineYields in focusPowell doubles down on hawkish stanceCrypto finds support You would have been forgiven for thinking central banks had reached peak hawkishness with a war ongoing in Europe. Jerome Powell has decided to make a laughing stock of us all. In a speech yesterday, Powell doubled down and completed a quite incredible [...]