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Traders Look Past COVID Risks Apple is starting the week on a positive note. The US tech stock is trading in the green ahead of the US open on Monday. The broader risk environment remains supportive for the time being. This comes…
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On June 25, the Federal Reserve quietly issued an order to the 30 largest banks in the US, banning them from engaging in stock buybacks and limiting the number of dividends they can pay. It didn't get all that much media coverage because…
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After two days of major drops in the US stock markets, analysts are revising their positions on where interest rates, and therefore currencies, are headed. Up until the weekend, the consensus was that there wouldn't be any rate cuts by…
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US stock markets are headed for the first year of decline since 2015. This might still be saved by a Santa Claus rally and the corresponding effects that it would have on currency markets, but, will the rally happen? Certainly there are a…
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Paul Tudor Jones, known as the man who shorted the “Black Monday 1987” crisis, is one of the most well-known and respected traders of our time. He is renowned for his aggressive trading styles and is one of the most famous contrarian…
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The S&P 500 is one of the most widely followed indices by investors across the world. The Standard and Poor’s 500 index, published since 1957, represents the prices of 500 large cap stocks trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)…
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March was a roller-coaster month for the markets. Sentiment and themes flipped repeatedly, especially with flows dominating the final days of the month as the end of quarter loomed. The British pound was the top performer of the month,…
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As we previously explored the differences between trading stocks and forex, let's now look into the difference between Stocks and Stock CFDs. Many MT4 forex brokers offer trading in stocks. In some cases these are also marketed as stock…
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In last week’s piece, I asked if rising bond yields could threaten gold prices. Today’s question asks whether the rise in bond yields will endanger equity indices. As I write this, US equity indices are finally posting declines of more than…
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After two weeks of a choppy trading in most of the global equities, due to the global geopolitical tensions, some of these indices tried to recover losses. However and so far, they are still far away from recovering. This is even though…
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