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Housing Surprises Again: More to Come or Last Gasp?
John Tierney
Pending home sales popped a nice 0.7% in May, following a 10% surge in new home sales. Both were expected to drop noticeably.
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John Tierney
Pending home sales popped a nice 0.7% in May, following a 10% surge in new home sales. Both were expected to drop noticeably.
Bilal Hafeez, Dalvir Mandara
Rate hikes, a potential recession, and a negative macro backdrop in general have set the stage for a cumulative drawdown of over 70% for ethereum from the November 2021 highs.
John Tierney
Much of Corporate America seems to be banking on a continued strong economy – both Carnival Corp and Federal Express provided good outlooks for the rest of 2022.
It is easy to get caught up in short-term market gyrations and miss the big picture. After all, the VIX is historically elevated, and markets are seeing major swings every few days.
The biggest question in markets today is whether the Fed will be willing to crush inflation even it means weaker equity markets.
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Asset Allocation | Bitcoin & Crypto | Equities | FX | Rates
Ben Ford
We are in a bear market. And if recent earnings momentum weakens (as we expect), it will worsen.
Sam van de Schootbrugge
A Journal of Financial Economics paper explains why market sentiment measures are most valuable to investors when uncertainty is peaking.
Dalvir Mandara
We flagged the potential risks to Tron’s new algorithmic stablecoin, USDD. We warned of its similarities to the now-defunct TerraUSD (UST) stablecoin, and we were right.
Bilal Hafeez, Dalvir Mandara
Inflation and aggressive hiking paths remain at the forefront of the bearish global macroeconomic outlook for cryptocurrencies.
Andrew Simon and Dominique Dwor-Frecaut recap the past action-packed week. Short-term inflation prints are now driving Fed policy, so expect to see further volatility.
Our Senior Macro Strategist Dominique Dwor-Frecaut appeared on Bloomberg TV this morning to share her thoughts ahead of the upcoming Fed meeting...
Andrew Simon and Dominique Dwor-Frecaut share their thoughts on the latest US CPI numbers, the key things to focus on in the upcoming FOMC meeting...
Global | Monetary Policy & Inflation
Henry Occleston
Futures prices are important to understand. They are used by various institutions in their forecasts and thus help shape government and central bank policy.
Dalvir Mandara
Stablecoins are cryptocurrencies that are supposed to maintain a 1:1 peg against a reference asset (e.g., USD).
Henry Occleston
Targeted longer-term refinancing operations (TLTROs) are a form of non-regular, longer-term lending the Eurosystem offers to banks.
Henry Occleston
The European Union (EU) is debating a ban (or embargo) on imports of Russian crude oil and petroleum.
Ray is the Chief Investment Officer of Fixed Income at Pictet Asset Management. He joined Pictet in 2010 as Head of Total Return Fixed Income, before becoming CIO in 2017 and an Equity Partner in 2018.
Dominique Dwor-Frecaut is a Senior Macro Strategist for Macro Hive based in Los Angeles. She has been producing alpha-generating trade ideas...
Bert is a macro strategist at Macro Hive, specialising in Emerging Markets strategy. Between 2009 and 2017, he was co-head of EM strategy...
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Before starting Macro Hive, Bilal was Global Head of International Fixed Income Strategy at Nomura, and Head of Multi-Asset Research and Advisor to the CEO at Deutsche Bank. Bilal started his twenty-year career at JP Morgan. Academically, Bilal was an Honorary Visiting Professor of Finance at Cass Business School and studied Economics at St Johns College, Cambridge.
Andrew spent over 25 years in finance on both the buy and sell side. He co-founded Eschaton Opportunities, a $100 million hedge fund focused on global thematic value investing. Earlier in his career, Andrew led JP Morgan's institutional sales business across foreign exchange and emerging markets in Europe, ran Lehman's global derivative sales business, and managed Deutsche Bank's European currency option trading and derivative research business.