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[Reuters] Wall St Week Ahead: Fed shift causes rally in value stocks to wobble [Reuters] Exclusive: Fed’s Kashkari opposed to rate hikes at least through 2023 [Yahoo/Bloomberg] Commodities Bulls Nurse Their Wounds But Fight’s Not Over Yet [Reuters] China’s cryptocurrency-mining crackdown spreads to Sichuan [Yahoo/Bloomberg] U.S. Improvement Clouded by Variant; Russia Surge: Virus Update [Yahoo/Bloomberg] […]
Weekly Hard Asset Insights By David McAlvany The Fed, A lit Match, and A Powder Keg Without question, this past week was a punishing one in the commodity sector. The Wednesday FOMC meeting proved to be a catalyst for broad-based selling in hard assets and all things inflation trade-related. Hard commodities, soft commodities, precious metals, […]
It was a fascinating set up. A pivotal FOMC meeting two days ahead of quarterly “quadruple witch” expiration of options and other derivatives. Option expiration-related volatility used to be largely confined to the equities market. But with ETFs taking the financial speculation world – certainly including the derivatives universe – by storm, volatility around option […]
[Yahoo/Bloomberg] U.S. Stocks, Bonds Slide on Taper Fear: Markets Wrap [Yahoo/Bloomberg] Crude Oil Declines With Commodities Pressured by Fed’s Plan [CNBC] Fed’s Jim Bullard sees first interest rate hike coming as soon as 2022 [CNBC] Mortgage rates shoot higher after Fed Chairman Powell’s comments [Reuters] Analysis: As Fed wakes sleeping dollar, jolted bears may bolster […]
This week we cover the FED hinting that they will be pushing up their timeline of potential rate hikes. This paired with fears of inflation impacted the markets drastically. We’ll cover gold & silver’s reaction. Thanks for listening, if you enjoy be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel for weekly precious metals price updates […]
[Yahoo/Bloomberg] U.S. Stocks, Commodities Drop; Dollar Rises: Markets Wrap [Reuters] Hawkish Fed fuels dollar, leaves stocks and bonds bruised [Reuters] Gold slides below $1,800/oz after Fed’s hawkish tilt [AP] US jobless claims tick up to 412,000 from a pandemic low [Dow Jones] Manufacturing Activity in Philly Fed’s District Holds Up at Solid Expansion Levels in […]
[Yahoo/Bloomberg] U.S. Stocks Waver, Bonds Steady on FOMC Day: Markets Wrap [Yahoo/Bloomberg] Gold Holds Near Four-Week Low as Investors Await Fed Meeting [Reuters] Fed expected to signal start of monetary policy shift debate [Reuters] U.S. mortgage applications rise as purchases rebound [Reuters] Service sector business activity in NY region growing at record pace- NY Fed […]
Inflation of 5% “seasonally adjusted” down to 2.2% Using 1970s counting methods, inflation is now double digit “No more deposits please”, banks beg people to borrow or spend The McAlvany Weekly Commentary with David McAlvany and Kevin Orrick Honey I Shrunk The Cereal Box – The Cost Of Shrinkflation June 15, 2021 “Taxes are definitely […]
