The European Central Bank (ECB) rose its three policy rates by 50bp at yesterday’s monetary policy meeting, versus 25bp expected by analysts. One of the major highlights of yesterday’s ECB decision was the anti-fragmentation tool, TPI, transmission protection instrument. The name is fancy but what it could do to help the ECB is unsure for now, as t ... Show More
Feb 2023
Bard’s gaffe costs Google more than $100bn!
US equities fell yesterday on the back of two important factors: hawkish comments from the Federal Reserve (Fed) members, and the unexpected surge in the American used car prices. The S&P500 fell more than 1%, while Nasdaq slid around 1.80%.
Inside Nasdaq, Google had a particular ... Show More
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Mar 2024
The S&P500 couldn’t care less about hotter inflation… | MarketTalk: What’s up today? | Swissquote
Inflation in the US accelerated, not only in terms of monthly headline figure but everywhere, both core and headline, and both yearly and monthly figures came in hotter-than-expected. US yields and dollar rose, gold fell, but the S&P500 gained!
Elsewhere, sterling fell against th ... Show More
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Mar 2023
MM105: What just happened to Credit Suisse and should you be worried?
<p>In this episode, we focus on the Swiss firm Credit Suisse after their shares fell over 30% on Wednesday this week. </p><br><p>In fact, the headline of the Daily Telegraph, a major news publication in the UK read, "Swiss bank crash stokes fears of a new global crisis as UK ... Show More
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