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September 2024
Technical Breakout Suggests Bullish Bias, but Seasonality Hints at Caution
From a purely technical perspective, the market remains on a bullish buy signal and has not become grossly overbought. On [...]
Fed Rate Cut
In what some on Wall Street were billing as "the most important Fed decision in years," the Federal Reserve announced [...]
Inflation Rate Continues To Decline, But It’s A Cautionary Tale
The August Consumer Price Index (CPI) came in at 2.5% year-over-year last week. However, let’s put things into context before we declare [...]
The Fed. Very Interesting….
Following the softer job openings data, the market is now assigning even odds to a 50 bps rate cut this [...]
The Fed… Again
The last time the Fed made a policy move was when it raised rates to current levels in July 2023. [...]
August 2024
Gold Breaks Record Highs: What’s Driving the Surge?
Gold has been building on its all-time highs set earlier in the year. The price of gold in dollars is [...]