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Send a textOil price rise scares both investors and the US administration. Dollar rally pauses, while gold’s inability to climb is surprising. Asian equity indices plunge, as European underperformance persists. Dollar/yen reached intervention levels; quiet data calendar today.Ris ...  عرض المزيد

Send a textDollar rebounds as Middle East war rages. Nonfarm payrolls on tap asinvestors scale back Fed cut bets. WTI crude rallies above $80 per barrel,gold remains subdued. Wall Street slips as risk aversion intensifies.Risk Warning: Our services involve a significant risk and ...  عرض المزيد

Mark Cabana, head of US Rates Strategy at BofA Global Research, joins Forward Guidance to share insights on today’s very strange bond market. Cabana, a former officer at the Markets Group at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, explains his bullish case for the 10-year U.S. Trea ...  عرض المزيد

August saw strong gains in global equities, particularly in the Dow Jones, as well as indices in both China, and Japan. Gold has hit a four-month high nearing USD 3,500 per ounce this morning, driven by concerns over the Federal Reserve’s independence and uncertainty around US ta ...  عرض المزيد

Markets hit some rough patches yesterday, with all major European indices closing lower, followed by similar losses across the three main US benchmarks. Revised US data revealed an upward adjustment to second-quarter GDP, while jobless claims came in below expectations. This prom ...  عرض المزيد

This week, we discuss the biggest risks to the economy, whether Mag7 is a bubble, surprisingly strong consumer data, the increasingly noisy housing and labor markets, risks around Fed policy and dollar liquidity, and why gold has been a cleaner macro hedge than Bitcoin. Enjoy! — ...  عرض المزيد