A Speedy End to What?
Wall Street ended the trading week higher, as investors balanced a stronger than expected March jobs report with rising geopolitical tensions that pushed oil prices sharply higher. Oil futures surged to an intraday peak of $113.97 per barrel on Thursday, as Wall...
Trump becomes Baghdad Bob
Wall Street ended lower on the week as elevated US - Iran tensions remained in focus—with officials signaling the conflict could extend several more weeks—while President Donald Trump seems to insist that the war will be over soon. Secretary of State Marco Rubio...
TACO Trump feeling isolated
Wall Street ended the week substantially lower as concerns about the conflict in the Middle East lingered and oil prices stayed higher at around $100 per barrel. Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve announced its decision to keep interest rates unchanged, as widely...
Private Credit facing Prisoner’s dilemma
Wall Street closed the trading week lower as investors digested fresh inflation data from the consumer price index report and the ongoing volatility in energy markets remained present with crude oil topping $100 amid US - Iran tensions. Inflation data showed that the...
US enters another unnecessary war
Wall Street ended the week lower as conflict in the Middle East erupted after Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed, triggering war escalations between the U.S. and Israel vs. Iran, and uncertainty within oil supply chains. Oil prices rose more than...
AI Fatigue
Wall Street closed the trading week lower, as shares of Nvidia came under pressure following its fiscal fourth-quarter results and forward guidance, while a hotter-than-expected Producer Price Index report added to inflation concerns causing the 10-year Treasury yield...
Trump was wrong about tariffs and the Supreme Court agrees
he New York Federal Reserve released a report earlier this week that found Americans are eating the majority (90%) of the cost of Trump’s tariffs. They concluded that over the course of 2025, the average tariff rate on U.S. imports increased from 2.6 percent to 13...
International Markets Outperforming the S&P 500
Wall Street finished the trading week on a weaker note as investors digested a fresh batch of economic data, including the latest jobs report and Consumer Price Index (CPI) release. The CPI rose 0.2% in January, coming in below the +0.3% consensus estimate putting...
Dow hits 50,000 and we say “Thank You”
Wall Street ended the trading week struggling to come out of the deep technology led selloff earlier in the week, which pushed most of the Magnificent Seven names and some of the top tech companies in the red, despite positive Q4 earnings. The Dow Jones, however,...