Anything Less Than Mind-Blowing is Meh

Markets Yesterday’s ‘hawkish’ Fed dots raising governors’ 2024/25 inflation projections, a higher reference for the neutral rate (2.75% ) and indicating only one rate cut this year as the FOMC’s preferred interest rate scenario only limited the big decline in US yields post a softer than expected US may CPI release. US 2-y and 10-y […]

Sentiment is not bad for a week which confirmed that the Federal Reserve (Fed) won’t cut the interest rates anytime soon. Stocks rebounded and yields fell yesterday, the S&P500 kept floor above the 5000 psychological mark, Nasdaq 100 jumped 1.30% as the US 2-yer yield slipped below 4.90% despite data showing a bigger than expected […]

Markets Asian markets mostly started the day in risk-off modus after a disappointing outlook from tech bellwether Meta at its earnings report yesterday after the close of US markets. This also spilled over to European equities this morning. The risk-off again didn’t trigger any real safe haven bid for core bond markets. Declines in EMU […]