Category: Market updates by Fabrizio
Here are our quick take-aways from yesterday’s Fed meeting: As we were guesstimating lately, the Fed delivered a hawkish 50bps cut. On the news of the dovish headline decision to ease somewhat more aggressively than anticipated (at 8pm CET time), markets reacted accordingly: equity up, bond’s yields down, USD down and gold up (see graph). […]
What a great weekend for Italian sport! Italy won 3-1 against France in Paris in the Nations League with an amazing comeback, while Jannik Sinner became the first Italian man to win the US tennis open title. Speaking about comeback and first time, bond investors may eventually consider Japan Government Bonds (JGBs) too… First of […]
“The time has come for [monetary] policy to adjust” according to Jerome Powell during its speech at Jackson Hole last Friday, opening the door for a rate cut in September. The main uncertainty remains the path of these incoming cuts: gradually in case of a soft landing (and somewhat sticky services inflation) -our base case […]
France is currently drawing a lot of worldwide attention from both sports commentators, with the entry of the “onze de France” into the Euro foot tonight and the incoming Olympic games in Paris, and investors with French political uncertainties weighing on sentiment after French President Macron called a snap election. As a result, European equity […]
For those of you who read me regularly, you all know my passion for sports and financial markets. For sure, I would have preferred to make a living from my first passion, but the bar is certainly less high in the second. Anyway, I can’t complain because there are many similarities between the two, which […]
Against all expectations, the Cagliari Calcio was able to draw with Inter yesterday evening and take home a valuable point from their trip to Milan in the race to stay in Serie A. Speaking about surprising result, valuable stuff and a golden sun symbol of light and life for my favorite soccer team, gold seems […]
We got two positive surprises lately. The first one we almost got used to it, the US economy doesn’t show any signs of landing since the US ISM manufacturing rebounded above 50 in March and the non-farm payrolls (NFP) increased again more than expected last month as they rose +303k vs. +215k expected and +270k […]
March Madness… It has to be said that the term is certainly not overused this year! A prestigious “Mannshaft” victory against France (we were no longer used to seeing Germany win, whether in sport or economics), the Prancing Horse overtaking again its rivals with an unexpected double for Ferrari at the F1 Australian Grand Prix, […]
Let’s speak about losers today… I will directly skip the mortifying defeat of Cagliari Calcio against Monza this week-end (superb free-kick from Daniel Madini, the son of Paolo and grand-son of Cesare) or the elimination of Inter Milan from the Champion’s league, to focus on the sector investors love to hate, or rather have learned […]
It took 34 years, 2 months and 20 something days… but it finally made it. The Japan Nikkei 225 stock index posted indeed a new all-time high (ATH) last week, snapping symbolically one of the longest journeys through the disdain of global investors, but also breaking somewhat off my favorite provocative question to investors looking […]
It begins with a “C”, it is struggling and it is at the bottom of the performances ranking… Have you got it? I am referring to China of course! While billions of people in China and around the world are celebrating the beginning of a new Lunar year, there is still little to celebrate about […]
