Markets brace for NFP, CPI and Fed bets

Send us Fan MailUS-Iran fresh hostilities end; meeting scheduled for tomorrow as oil is little-changed. Month-end and quarter-end rebalancing flows could amplifyvolatility ahead of Thursday's US jobs report. The US dollar is supported,while US equity indices seek direction; Fed W ...  Show more

Send us Fan MailApple price hike triggers renewed AI jitters; chip stocks lead slump. Oil falls back following gains from Iranian strike on Hormuz vessel. Fed rate hike bets scaled back after PCE inflation data and Fedspeak. US dollar retreats further, gold stabilizes around $4,0 ...  Show more

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 ...  Show more

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 ...  Show more

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 ...  Show more

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! — ...  Show more