♫Summer time, and the livin’ is easy♫—that is certainly a blast from the past. This summer is not so laid back. Several major markets seem to [...]

[Reuters] Stocks rally stalls, eyes on Powell testimony for US rate clues [Yahoo/Bloomberg] Global Stocks Slip After Wall Street Rally Fizzles: [...]

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Jerome Powell in Capitol Hill Spotlight After Fed Pauses [Yahoo Finance] Regional banks’ stocks are rallying. Profits [...]

“Prudent” Amid FOMO, POMO, and MOMO This week, in the wild world of markets, fear of missing out (FOMO) has turned into full-on panic of missing [...]

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Why the chances of a government shutdown this fall are already on the rise [Yahoo/Bloomberg] Goldman Says Markets Too Optimistic on [...]

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

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

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 [...]

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

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

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 [...]

[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 [...]

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 [...]

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

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