Bank Earnings Start Strong; Cryptocurrencies Crumble
US index futures are trading flat to up 0.1% this morning as they try to regain their footing from recent losses, including declines of 0.5% for the S&P 500 and 1.2% for the NASDAQ yesterday. European markets are climbing this morning with the Dax up 0.25% and the FTSE up 0.5%. The biggest action this […]
Backing and Filling
The morning after the S&P 500 reached a new all-time high finds US index futures trading flat to down 0.2% with Dow Futures leading the way back downward. This appears to be mainly due to common consolidation after a move, and a lack of new developments to push markets higher. The only notable economic report […]
Positive Start to a Shortened Trading Week
US traders have returned from the long weekend in a good mood. US index futures are up 0.2%-0.5%. Europe is now in the green with the Dax and FTSE both up about 0.2%. Asia Pacific trading saw the Hang Seng rally 1.6%. The US Dollar is dropping back a bit today. Gold is up 1.0%, […]
Stocks Pause Ahead of the Long Weekend
With a long weekend approaching in North America, traders appear inclined to take profits following yesterday’s rally. Soft US retail sales and mixed earnings don’t appear to be helping sentiment either. US headline retail sales (-0.9% vs street -0.1% and previous +0.7%), and retail sales ex autos (-0.4% vs street +0.3%) showed an abrupt and […]
Markets Digest Inflation and Earnings News
US Producer prices came in hotter than expected this morning (3.5% vs street 3.2% and previous 3.3%), confirming the increase in inflation seen in yesterday’s US consumer price report. Tomorrow brings US retail sales for this month. Unlike yesterday where stocks sold off on the prospects of rising inflation, traders appear to be taking today’s […]
Soft Tech Sales Send Stocks Slumping
NASDAQ futures are down 0.8% this morning, outpacing the 0.1% decline by Dow Futures to the downside. Sentiment appears to be getting impacted by disappointing news from the technology sector. Although Google parent Alphabet and chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) both beat expectations, overall cloud revenues at Alphabet and data centre revenues at AMD were […]
Trade War Focus Turns To China
Stocks and currencies have stabilized overnight after President Trump postponed the implementation of tariffs against Canada and Mexico for one month after agreements were reached to improve border security. New 10% tariffs continue, however, and China has retaliated with new tariffs against some US goods and regulatory investigations against some US companies. This morning finds […]
Focus Returns to Earnings and Interest Rates
While the tech sector plunge took most of the attention Monday it ended up being more of a rotational day between sectors as the deep dives of 3.1% for the NASDAQ and 1.5% for the S&P were partly offset by a 0.6% gain for the Dow Industrials. Today US index futures have stabilized trading between […]
New Competition in AI Crushes Tech Stocks
The emergence of a new Chinese competitor in the Artificial Intelligence area, called DeepSeek, has sparked a severe and abrupt change in sentiment toward AI related stocks. Nvidia, who had been the darling of the group for over a year, is down 11.5% in premarket trading and NASDAQ futures are down 3.5%. S&P futures are […]
Investors Digest PMI and Earnings Reports
US index futures are trading flat to down 0.2% as traders pause to catch their breath at the end of a busy week and position for next week’s round of mega cap earnings reports. Overseas, Hong Kong rallied 1.8% and the Dax is up 0.4%, most other major markets have been quiet. Overnight, the Bank […]