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Friday’s abnormally strong jobs data resonated like a bomb across the financial markets. The US economy added 353’000 nonfarm jobs last month versus the consensus of around 185’000 new job additions. The average wage growth unexpectedly accelerated to 4.5%, and the unemployment rate remained steady at 3.7%.
As such, a March rate cut from the Fed looks like a pipe dream. Activity on Fed funds futures now gives less than 20% chance for a rate cut to happen in March. And the probability of a May cut has fallen to around 70%, whereas the market was pricing a May cut...

Three US tech giants revealed their Q4 results yesterday, after the bell and the results were mixed. Meta jumped 15% in the afterhours trading, Amazon gained a bit more than 2.5% while Apple shares tumbled almost 3%. Today, Exxon and Chevron are due to announce how well they did last quarter.
On the macroeconomic front, the Bank of England (BoE) kept its rates unchanged yesterday but opened the door to rate cuts mentioning ‘good news on inflation’. Cable rebounded despite a dovish takeaway from the MPC meeting as the US dollar fell sharply despite better-than-expected ISM manufacturing survey. In the...

One project we haven't talked about for a long time is Polkadot. They just recently had a developer conference with some news, that could be relevant for traders!

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We knew that yesterday was not going to be a bright day, as Microsoft, Google and AMD have all seen a negative market reaction to their fantastic quarterly results that failed to match the huge market expectations. And a surprise Q4 loss at New York Community Bancorp revived the bank worries and sent the yields tumbling, even though the Fed pushed back on expectations of a March rate cut. He signaled talks regarding QT unwinding however!
The US dollar swung between gains and losses yesterday, and is slightly above its 200-DMA at the wake of the latest Fed decision. The...

We had good news, bad news and news that are fundamentally good for the economy and bad for the global rate cut expectations.
The European economies performed better than expected last quarter, but we see an uptick in latest inflation metrics. The US companies announce more layoffs, but the job openings increased in December.
The Federal Reserve (Fed) will announce its latest decision today as investors will be hunting for clues about the timing of the first rate cut.
In the corporate space, Microsoft released its latest quarterly results after the bell yesterday. Both earnings and revenue were better than...

It was yet another day, and another record high for the US major stock indices. The S&P500 traded to 4930 for the first time, driven higher by falling US yields after the US Treasury surprisingly cut its quarterly borrowing estimate, on hope that five of 7 Magnificent stocks will surprise positively when they reveal their results this week, and on hope that we might hear something relatively dovish from the Federal Reserve (Fed) meeting this week.
Microsoft, AMD and Google are due to report earnings after the bell, and the Fed will announce its latest policy decision on Wednesday.
The...

US crude jumped past the $79b level this morning on escalating tensions in the Red Sea. The European and American futures are slightly in the negative at the time of writing, and stocks in Hong Kong and China were better bid on Monday as China imposed ban on short sellers, but the gains remained short-lived after a HK court ordered Evergrande’s liquidation. Globally, we see a limited risk appetite at the start of a week packed with economic data, central bank decisions and corporate earnings.
The Fed will keep rates unchanged this week, and Powell will likely say the same...

The euro traded south yesterday, as the European Central Bank (ECB) Chief Christine Lagarde reckoned that growth and inflation are slowing, while insisting that the rate cut decision will be data dependent.
Across the Atlantic, the US released its latest GDP update and the data was as good as it could possibly get. Yesterday’s US GDP data was the definition of goldilocks in numbers: good growth, slowing inflation. A dream comes true…?
Oil bulls finally got the positive breakout that they were looking for in oil prices.
The US dollar index ticked higher yesterday, as the euro fell across board...

The stock rally continued on both sides of the Atlantic on Wednesday; the technology and chip stocks remained in the driver seat. Sentiment in Europe was bolstered by an almost 9% rally in ASML on news that their orders more than tripled last quarter. Nvidia hit a fresh record, Microsoft was worth $3 trillion for some time. The S&P500 and Nasdaq 100 hit a fresh record, and Netflix – which has nothing to do with AI, but which was just cheering its 13-mio new subscribers for the latest quarter - jumped 10%. Tesla fell in extended trading after earnings miss....

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A few days have past since the launch of the Bitcoin Spot ETFs. What is new in terms of trading volume? Is an Ethereum ETF next and why Solana might be entering the second stage of the mobile crypto revolution!

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00:36 Bitcoin
04:03 Ethereum
05:26 Solana
07:29 Swissquote Trading Day & Good bye

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