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US treasury yields rose 4bps and the S&P500 shed 1.3% after Fed Chair Powell said in a Q&A session of his Semi annual testimony to...

Purpose of the Analysis: The Confidometer evaluates market sentiment looking at several gauges of volatility (vix level), option pricing...

Stocks continued on last Friday’s monentum with the S&P gaining 1%, supported by W.Buffett’s thank you to D. Trump’s tax cut in his...

Stocks traded nervously for the whole day on Friday and “were rallied” towards the close, ending 1.5% higher after an explosive last...

Purpose of the Analysis: The Confidometer evaluates market sentiment looking at several gauges of volatility (vix level), option pricing...

US stocks closed largely unchanged after a daylong fizzling out of the opening gap higher and the s&p closed below its 50dma despite a...

Stocks rallied ahead of the Fed minutes publication but ultimately closed lower as us 10 year bonds yields climbed 5bps to a new high...

Semiconductors (bitcoin related...) and tech stocks rallied early yesterday, keeping the tape together before a 10% decline in Wallmart...

Despite a failed last run on Friday, US stocks recovered about half their losses this past week, climbing every day after investors...

Last week’s FX Commitment of traders report showed a broad based but modest "reduction" in net speculative positions which was a healthy...

The fundamental support for gold will likely come from nascent inflationary fears (see inflation expectation report below) and central...

No news is good news. Europe is lagging and EM outperforms amidst global dollar weakness. Bonds were stable and the s&p500 gained 1.2%....

The publication of a surprisingly strong US CPI (+0.5% in January (from +0.2% in December), “beating” all expectations) coupled to a...

Today’s session was nearly boring for those who got used to the volatility of the past two weeks. Stocks seem to want to return to...

Stocks further recovered from last week’s selling climax, adding 1.5% yesterday. Gold rallied USD8 as well while US 10y bond yields...

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Purpose of the Analysis: The Confidometer evaluates market sentiment looking at several gauges of volatility (vix level), option pricing...

Up... down....down... up and Up was the shortest summary for today’s action with no catalyst to explain it, besides that we were oversold...

Another Bad Day... More of the same volatility shakeout extended the S&P 500 drop from the last record to 10%, as it shed -3.5%....

Afrer squeezing some 3% on a relief rally on Tuesday, stocks gyrated on Wednesday with the path made more uncertain by a poor US 10 year...