Remember early in the Fed’s tightening cycle, when Chair Powell would invoke the legacy of Paul Volcker? And there were press conferences where “financial [...]

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Global Stocks Head for Best Week Since March: Markets Wrap [Reuters] Bank of Japan, European Central Bank rate decisions send yen to fresh [...]

The Fed chose to pause on rate hikes for this month with the intent of continued rate hikes in the months moving forward. Powell said that rate cuts are a [...]

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Stocks Drop After Hawkish Fed and ECB: Markets Wrap [MarketWatch] Two-year Treasury yields at three-month highs after Fed points to more rate [...]

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Stocks Edge Higher in Countdown to Fed Decision: Markets Wrap [Yahoo/Bloomberg] Oil Climbs as China’s New Import Quotas Stem Demand [...]

Bank Lending Drops 90% In Q1 Is Taiwan In The Crosshairs By Year End? China Announces Big Gold Purchases As It Sells Treasuries China Puts Its Big Listening [...]

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Stocks Rise Amid Fed-Pause Bets; Yuan Down on PBOC: Markets Wrap [Yahoo/Bloomberg] UK Two-Year Yield Rises to Highest Since 2008 After Jobs [...]

Investing in a time of immense cultural and political change is like trying to rope a cow during an earthquake. (This is a theoretical analogy. The writer is [...]

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Stocks Edge Higher Before Slew of Rate Decisions: Markets Wrap [Yahoo/Bloomberg] Oil Slumps on Demand Woes as Goldman Cuts Outlook Again [...]

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] As Fed Signals Rate Pause, Powell Will Have to Placate Hawks [Yahoo/Bloomberg] Bond Traders Brace for Fed Meeting Fraught with Wildcards, [...]

Trading Places This week in 1983, the hit film Trading Places was released in theaters. Forty years later, financial markets may be preparing for some trading [...]

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Crypto Markets Slump as SEC Regulatory Crackdown Spooks Investors [Yahoo/Bloomberg] New York and East Coast Get Reprieve From Smoke as Skies [...]

Not surprisingly, considering the March banking crisis, Non-Financial Debt (NFD) growth was tepid for the second straight quarter. At a 3.50% rate, Q1 NFD [...]

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Tesla Climbs on GM Pact; US Stocks Drift: Markets Wrap [Yahoo/Bloomberg] Oil Steady This Week as Demand Concern Counters Saudi Supply Cut [...]

This week we review the price movements of gold, silver, platinum, stocks, and dollar. Are we back to the usual summer seasonal trading activity? The [...]