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The Americans continue spending, US retail sales grew 0.7% on a monthly basis and more than 3% on a yearly basis - the biggest figure since January. The resilience of the US consumer spending sapped investor sentiment by fueling inflation expectations and Federal Reserve (Fed) hawks. Yields rose, stocks fell and USD gained.
In Europe, Cable bulls resist to the bears around the 1.27, on record wages growth and sticky inflation while Europeans watch GDP and industrial production data to assess the slowdown in economy.
Far away, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) held its cash rate unchanged for...

China surprised by cutting its one-year medium-term lending facility (MLF) rates by 15bp to 2.50% today to give a jolt to its economy but Chinese equities remain under pressure, the Chinese yuan fell to the lowest levels against the US dollar since last November, and crude oil stagnates around the $82.50pb.
Elsewhere, Argentina devaluated its currency by 18% to 350 per dollar, the dollar ruble traded past the 100 mark for the first time since Russia invaded Ukraine and the Indian rupee traded near record, as well. All that helped the US dollar index shortly trade above its 200-DMA yesterday,...

The week starts on a bad mood as the Chinese property worries escalate with Country Garden suspending almost a dozen of onshore bonds starting from today. Plus, Zhongzhi Enterprise Group, which has around 1 trillion yuan under management failed on its payments linked to products issued by its companies last Friday, further fueling the stress among investors.
American crude is under pressure around $85/82.50, the MACD indicator just turned bearish hinting that we could see some more downside correction in case of weak news this week.
Some easing in energy and metal prices could be a good thing, as Friday’s...

Released yesterday, the latest CPI data showed that the headline inflation in the US ticked higher from 3 to 3.2%. That was slightly lower than the 3.3% penciled in by analysts, core inflation eased to 4.7% in July from 4.8% expected by analysts and printed a month earlier.
Today, eyes will be on the July PPI figures before the weekly closing bell, where core PPI is seen further easing, but headline PPI may have ticked higher to 0.7% on monthly basis, probably on higher energy, crop and food prices.
Yesterday’s slightly softer-than-expected inflation numbers and the initial jobless claims which...

US equities fell, while yields pushed higher in the run up to today’s most important US inflation data. Inflation in the US is expected to have rebounded from 3 to 3.3% in July and core inflation may have steadied at around 4.8%. Any bad surprise on the inflation front could revive the Federal Reserve hawks, but we are far from pricing another hike in September just yet; activity on Fed funds futures assesses more than 85% chance for pause in September FOMC meeting. Rising oil, crop and rice prices are the major upside risks, while potential downside pressure on shelter...

Polygon will be switching their MATIC Token in a 1:1 fashion to the new POL Token. The goal? Support multiple blockchains with one new token. But will that change anything without new tokenomics?

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08:28 Polygon
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What if we could only trade Bitcoin but not other altcoins? Some exchanges have faced this ridiculous request...let's discuss what the implications would be!

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While the FED is raising 25 bps we're seeing a new crypto project that allows you to trade cryptos with your iris? Also: Avalanche is launching a new fund pushing tokenization projects.

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04:48 Ethereum
06:07 Maker
07:58 Avalanche
09:23 Doge Coin
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Surprise, surprise: Microsoft failed to meet investor expectations when it announced its Q2 results yesterday, while Google did better than expected. The S&P500 advanced to the highest levels since April 2022, while Nasdaq 100 was up by 0.73% yesterday. Meta is due to announce earnings today after the bell.
Zooming out, the IMF raised its outlook for the world economy this year and it now expects the global GDP to expand 3% in 2023. But it also warned that Germany will probably be the only G7 economy to suffer an economic contraction this year. US growth forecast was optimistic even...

Both Eurozone and UK PMI numbers hinted at faster-than-expected slowdown in economic activity. Both the euro and sterling retreated against the US dollar.
The Federal Reserve (Fed) starts its two-day policy meeting today, and will highly likely announce a 25bp hike on Wednesday. But what Fed officials will also do is to remind investors that the tightening cycle is probably not juts yet.
US stocks traded higher yesterday with the S&P500 adding 0.40% and Nasdaq 0.14% after its special rebalancing. The US 2-year yield advanced past 4.90% and fell this morning. While the VIX index shows no sign of a...