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The Eurozone’s flash CPI estimate looked as ugly as it smelled beforehand. Inflation in the Eurozone is estimated to have barely eased to 8.5% from 8.6% printed a month earlier, while core inflation advanced to a record of 5.6%, from 5.3% printed previously.
The latest CPI update confirmed the European Central Bank (ECB) hawks’ aggressive positioning for further rate hikes and pushed the European yields further up yesterday, but despite higher yields across the board, the Stoxx 600 closed Thursday’s session 0.50% higher.
Across the Atlantic Ocean, fresh jobs data came to fan the inflation worries yesterday in the US....

Hotter-than-expected inflation data pushes the European yields higher. The higher yields support recovery in the euro, but not the European stock valuations.
Across the Atlantic Ocean, the news is not great, either. The ISM manufacturing index revealed a slower contraction in February, but the improvement compared to the last month was less than expected.
A slowing economic growth is not bad news for the Federal Reserve (Fed), but the mounting price pressure is. This is what the ISM report revealed yesterday, and further fueled Fed hawks.
Activity on Fed funds futures now gives more than 30% chance for a 50bp...

The G20 met last weekend to discuss many topics, one of which is crypto regulation. The G20, BIS, IMF and FSB are already preparing their regulation efforts. What's coming for crypto traders?

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Inflation in Europe took the wrong direction in February. The data released yesterday printed a record inflation of 7.2% in France and ticked higher to 6.1% in Spain. Both were higher than expected, of course, and cranked up the hawkish European Central Bank (ECB) rate expectations.
In the US, cooling US house prices for a seventh straight month, and ugly Richmond manufacturing index cooled the hawkish Federal Reserve (Fed pressures yesterday, but the S&P500 couldn’t hold on to its gains above the 50-DMA, and closed yesterday’s session below this level. As a result, the month of February ended with a...

The Europeans and the Brits finally found an agreement on the very complicated Northern Ireland issue yesterday.
But for now, investors warned that they don’t necessarily expect the deal to remove only all of the uncertainty weighing on prices.
And if the Windsor Framework could help sterling and small British stocks recover, all the FTSE 100 wants is a rebound in energy and commodity prices, rather than a Brexit deal…
Occidental Petroleum missed earnings and revenue expectations when it announced its Q4 results yesterday, and fell 1.2% in afterhours trading, despite announcing a 38% increase in its dividend and a...

The week starts on a cautious note, as the Federal Reserve (Fed) rate hike expectations intensify the selloff in global stocks and bonds, while pushing the US dollar higher against most majors.
Friday’s PCE data showed that not only inflation didn’t slow in January, but headline figure ticked higher to 5.4% from 5.3% printed a month earlier, and core inflation ticked higher to 4.7% from 4.6% printed a month earlier. The latter fueled the Fed hike expectations, because a slower-than-expected easing in inflation is one thing, but rebound in inflation is another thing.
As a result, the US yields keep...

US stocks had a wobbling trading session yesterday. US equities gained, then lost, then rebounded to close the session in the green.
The 14% jump in Nvidia certainly helped improve the overall market mood, whereas the US economic data was mixed and was not supposed to pour water on the equity bears or improve sentiment regarding the Federal Reserve (Fed) hawks.
The latest GDP update from the US revealed that the US economy expanded slower than expected, while prices rose faster-than-expected.
We have one more important data point to watch before the week ends… and that’s the US PCE index,...

Hawkish were the minutes from the latest FOMC meeting. They confirmed that the Federal Reserve (Fed) officials are indeed not lying when they say that they will continue hiking the interest rates to tame inflation toward the 2% mark.
Both the US 2 and 10-year yields bounced lower from early-week highs. A part of it was perhaps explained by the rising tensions between the US and China after China said that their relationship with Russia is ‘rock solid’.
The S&P500 eased another 0.16%, Nasdaq tipped a toe into the bearish consolidation zone, but US equity futures are in the positive...

Solana is returning to becoming one of the more interesting coins, but is it? Can Bitcoin fight the 25'000 USD barrier or is it back to bear market?

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US stocks now join the treasury selloff, and the US dollar pushes higher on the back of the increasingly hawkish Federal Reserve (Fed) bets.
The preliminary PMI in the US came in better than expected for February, and the services PMI ticked above the 50 mark, into the expansion zone, for the first time since last July.
The strong economic data further fueled the Fed hawks. But this time, the stocks sold off as well, despite the strong economic data. The weak outlook from Walmart and Home Depot left the no-landing bets under the dark shadow of higher US yields....