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FedEx Sinks...
BentinPartner Weekly Stocks were hit last week by the twin arrows of a hotter than expected August CPI report and from Fedex taking out...
Marc Bentin
Sep 19, 20225 min read


More Technically Driven Buying...
BentinPartner Weekly Dear Reader, Bulls took charge of the market last week, essentially looking past Central Banks’ signalling of...
Marc Bentin
Sep 12, 20227 min read


J. Grantham Calls it A Super Bubble Ready To Pop (still)...
BentinPartner Weekly Dear Reader, Last week delivered another string of “risk off” sessions as Euro area inflation accelerated to another...
Marc Bentin
Sep 5, 20227 min read


Markets Stumble Into Jackson's Hole
BentinPartner Weekly Dear Reader, Jay Powell’s speech at Jackson Hole last Friday may have been brief but was unambiguous, leaving aside...
Marc Bentin
Aug 29, 20226 min read


Still Technically Bullish but...
BentinPartner Weekly Dear Reader, Equities forfeited all the previous week’s strong gains as de-risking struck across the board, causing...
Marc Bentin
Aug 22, 20226 min read


Squeezing A Little Longer...
BentinPartner Weekly Dear Reader, The catalyst for last week’s continued rally in risk assets was a lower-than-expected US July CPI print...
Marc Bentin
Aug 15, 20226 min read


6 Sigma Beat on US Payrolls
BentinPartner Weekly Dear Reader, Friday’s US unemployment data delivered a 6-sigma upside deviation vs. expectations with 528k non-farm...
Marc Bentin
Aug 8, 20226 min read


Fed Tightens 75bps, Stocks Rally
BentinPartner Weekly Dear Reader, As was widely expected the Fed raised rates by 75bps last Wednesday giving way to a powerful and...
Marc Bentin
Aug 1, 20227 min read


ECB Raises Rates 50bps and Unleashes More QE
BentinPartner Weekly Dear Reader, The major news from last week was the ECB 50bps rate hike along with the details of its new...
Marc Bentin
Jul 25, 20228 min read


Bonds Throw A Party (BentinPartner Daily 23-Jun-22 )
BentinPartner Daily Dear Reader, US stocks initially dropped on the first words of J. Powell’s House testimony as he reaffirmed his...
Marc Bentin
Jun 22, 20225 min read


Stagflation Ahead...
BentinPartner Weekly Dear Reader, Stocks dropped sharply again last week as doubt emerged whether investors need to be scared more of the...
Marc Bentin
Jun 20, 20225 min read


Inflation Soars and Consumer Confidence Sours
BentinPartner Weekly Dear Reader, Last week delivered some brutal trading sessions yet again, ending the period with a storm and sharp...
Marc Bentin
Jun 13, 20225 min read


Not A Storm But A Hurricane Coming (J. Dimon)
BentinPartner Weekly Dear Reader, The US Jobs report last Friday showed 390’000 jobs were created in May while the April figure was also...
Marc Bentin
Jun 6, 20225 min read


Squeezing The Big Short...Weekly Review
BentinPartner Weekly Dear Reader, Squeezing The Big Short... With the rejection of the lows printed on Friday last week (the one before...
Marc Bentin
May 30, 20226 min read


The New Gold Narrative is Shot...Weekly Review
BentinPartner Weekly Dear Reader, The "New" Gold Narrative is Shot... Last week was again brutal, inflicting US equity indices a seventh...
Marc Bentin
May 23, 20227 min read


12 Years Ago...
BentinPartner Weekly Dear Reader, 12 Years Ago... 12 years ago, Ken Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart wrote the book “This time is different”, a...
Marc Bentin
Jan 24, 20227 min read


Is It Over or What ?
BentinPartner Weekly Dear Reader, 2021: An Exceptional Year … Last year was exceptional and wild in many respects, driven by the pandemic...
Marc Bentin
Jan 2, 20226 min read


Meme Pas Peur...
BentinPartner Weekly Dear Reader, Last week brought in a weaker than expected US Q2 GDP growth at 2%, dragged down by supply bottlenecks,...
Marc Bentin
Nov 2, 20215 min read


Bye To A Mercyless Vilain...Really?
BentinPartner Weekly Dear Reader, US indices rose to fresh all-time highs last week, propelled by short covering as the recent correction...
Marc Bentin
Oct 25, 20215 min read


Inflation is Transitory and a non-issue...Really?
BentinPartner Weekly Dear Reader, US Retail sales climbed 5.3% last month (and +7.4% from a year ago) after decreasing 1.0% in December,...
Marc Bentin
Feb 22, 20215 min read
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