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It’s a big week for jobs data – starting with the job openings numbers tomorrow. But today, all we have on deck is some manufacturing activity data, which showed surprising growth. That’s a good sign for the economy.
The producer price data came in this morning and it was hotter than expected – at 0.5% monthly and 3% annually. Coupled with Trump’s pick of Kevin Warsh, a noted monetary “hawk”, as new Fed Chair nominee this morning and markets have been under pressure.
Hey, Ross here — and before we sign off for the year, I want to show you something most traders completely misread. The VIX just collapsed from above 26 to below 14 in a little over a month — a huge shift from high to low volatility. That sounds scary, but history says it’s often rocket fuel for...
The usual weekly jobless claims numbers came in this morning. At 209,000 it was a slight increase from last week – and also marginally ahead of expectation. We also received productivity data from the third quarter, which came in bang on in line with expectations. Tomorrow, we’ll get some major...
The Fed decision comes out in an hour. Then, Powell begins his market-moving press conference 30 minutes later. Everyone will be closely watching.
We just got the latest consumer confidence numbers this morning and they came in substantially below expectations. While that will likely not play into Fed Chair Powell’s market-moving press conference tomorrow, it will likely influence investors’ reactions to Powell’s conference. We’ll see how it...
Not much on the economic calendar today. The Fed starts its monetary policy meeting tomorrow, with the decision and the press conference on Wednesday. All eyes will be on that. Let’s see how markets have been moving.
We got the latest consumer sentiment numbers this morning, which came in surprisingly ahead of expectations. We also got some activity gauges for the manufacturing and services sectors – both of which slightly underperformed expectations. Let’s see how the markets have been moving.
The earnings season strategy that works in 2026 is understanding what actually moves stocks - not just whether companies beat or miss estimates.
We got the usual weekly jobless claims numbers this morning. It came in at 200,000 – a marginal increase from last week that was still slightly below expectations.
Investors will be watching Trump’s Davos speech today to see if he creates any more market-moving “headline news”. And that leads to a big question… Why is it so hard to profit from unstable markets?
Nothing on the economic calendar for today. This Thursday, we’ll get the delayed PCE report for November – the Fed’s preferred inflation gauge. And outside of economic reports, President Trump is due to give a speech in Davos tomorrow… Which given the amount of uncertainty in the headlines lately...
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