Market Overview

Over the past week, the financial world has been rocked by the news of Silicon Valley Bank's failure - the largest bank to go under since the 2008 financial crisis.The shock announcement came last...

In this piece, we’re going to run through some of this week’s important data releases and give our initial thoughts on the recent collapse of Silicon Valley Bank.Let’s dive right...

Daylight Savings is bad for your health and bad for trading.Here are 3 ways DST affects trading. 

A tumultuous week for US banks saw the shares of the crypto-friendly Signature Bank (NASDAQ:SBNY) drop nearly 23% on Friday and more than 37% since Monday. The decline comes after the second large...

In the UK, all eyes are on Wednesday's Spring Statement and we believe there's little room for the Chancellor to row back on his previous plans for fiscal consolidationUS: Broad support for a 50bp...

US-based companies cut 77,770 jobs in February, compared to 102,943 in January. Tech companies continued to lead the layoff race, trimming 21,387 jobs last month, which represents 28% of all cuts,...

Warren Buffett recently published his latest letter to shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRKa) and, if you haven’t done so already, I encourage to go read it along with all 45 that...

On International Women's Day, here's why I believe women are better traders than men:

US recession risk is high unless it’s not. After months of conflicting signals from various business-cycle indicators, debate and disagreement reign supreme in the land of nowcasting and...

Chair Powell has sent a clear message: the Fed is back in the driving seat. At a very minimum, the Fed has given itself the option to deliver a 50bp hike from the March meeting. It's now discounted...

The big question facing the Fed is whether they should increase the Fed Funds rate by 25bps or 50bps on March 22, 2023. If Jerome Powell cared for our advice, we would tell him to take the opposite...

There’s no shortage of threats lurking, ranging from inflation, elevated interest rates that may go higher still, and various geopolitical threats. But market sentiment has improved recently,...

Last week we noted two market leadership signals, one positive (Semiconductor and Tech leadership) and one potentially negative (Healthcare relative to the broad market). The potential bottom in the...

Expect volatility to ramp up; I don’t care what the headlines say. The implied volatility curve of the S&P 500 looks scary, with lots of sharp twists and turns. The term structure of the...