Category: Blog
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Double Digit Fed Funds?
It is all about interest rates. Commodity prices, equity prices, real estate prices, volatility, and asset prices in general are all tied to a relatively obscure decision made by a group of men just praying that they can bring the economy to a soft landing. Is it possible? Of course, it is possible. Is it…
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End Of Day Report
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Fed’s Bostic (2024 voter, neutral) maintains view Fed policy rate needs to rise to 5.00-5.25% range, policy rate will need to remain at that level well into 2024
Fed’s Bostic (2024 voter, neutral) maintains view Fed policy rate needs to rise to 5.00-5.25% range, policy rate will need to remain at that level well into 2024 Will need monetary policy to have a greater dampening effect on demand and slower wage growth before concluding inflation is moving steadily lower. Economy has the momentum…
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Fed may need to raise rates to 6.5% !@!!!#
Federal Reserve officials may need to raise interest rates as high as 6.5% to defeat inflation, according to new research that was sharply critical of the central bank’s initially slow response to rising prices. In a paper presented Friday at a conference in New York, a quintet of Wall Street economists and academics argue that policymakers still…
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Morning Report Feb 24th
[00:00:00] Rolling, everyone. Happy Friday. Darren here at Levi from financial, banking sector and . Everything’s under pressure. Again, Euro stocks down 2.3%. The s and p, that’s about 0.8%, and the Euro bank index is down 5%. , Basically, this all started yesterday when the director of credit strategy at Moody’s warned that officials…
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Morning report Feb 23rd
S&P closed pretty much unchanged as the Minutes of the Federal Reserve’s meeting in early February show that some officials were worried about a then-recent easing in financial conditions. Ahead of the Jan. 31–Feb. 1 meeting, stocks had strengthened and bond yields had slipped after three months of good inflation news. In their discussion, a…
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FOMC minutes (detailed)
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Morning Report Feb 22nd
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THE 10 GOLDEN RULES OF TRADING
I’ve been in the option business for a very long time and you cannot learn the skill of trading overnight. To be a master it takes years and TBH, I certainly cannot claim to have mastered options, but I do know them. When you do progress to becoming a consistently profitable trader it can be…
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US Open
Stocks have returned from the long weekend in the red tracking European peers while there have been several key US earnings updates with both Walmart (WMT) and Home Depot (HD) opening lower after weak guidance. There has also been attention on geopolitics after US President Biden’s visit to Ukraine on Monday. Data saw EU PMI…