• February 5, 2025

Strong Private Payrolls Point to a Robust Labor Market Ahead of NFP Report

The private sector added 183K jobs in January, which was well above the market's expectation of 148K. These results were a little better than last month (December), revised to ...

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• February 5, 2025

Services Sector Growth Slows in January, Below Expectations

The services sector expanded at a slower pace than expected in January, with the ISM PMI coming in at 52.8. The street was expecting 54.2, and January’s result was lower than t...

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• February 5, 2025

Jobs Report Hedging Could Send Implied Volatility Soaring Today

Rates fell sharply yesterday following a weaker-than-expected ISM services report. The quarterly refunding announcement showed no significant shifts in how the Treasury plans t...

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• February 5, 2025

2 Key Yield-Sensitive Trades to Watch as Treasury Breakout Reshapes Markets

US bonds rip higher, 10-year yields dive Gold charges to fresh records, no topping signals yet USD/CHF cracks key support, downside risk builds Payrol...

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• February 5, 2025

Trump Era Volatility: The Impact on Portfolio Allocations

I am continually fascinated by how many second-order ‘understandings’ are missed, even by those people who have a really good first-order understanding of finance. For example, every financia...

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• February 5, 2025

Ally Financial: The Tugboat of Auto Finance Keeps Gaining Steam

Ally Financial Inc. (NYSE: NYSE: ALLY ) is a digital financial services c...

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• February 5, 2025

The Energy Report: Greatly Exaggerated

There’s a lot of exaggerations going on. I pointed out that it’s an exaggeration to believe that tariffs cause inflation . It was a great exaggeration to believe that we were g...

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• February 5, 2025

Steady M&A Deals to Begin 2025, Disappointing IPOs So Far

Hopes were high for a rebound in capital markets activity this year. A few notable Health Care deals along with M&A in the AI-adjacent and reshoring themes o...

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• February 4, 2025

Market Sentiment Remains Fragile as Trump Takes Aim at Iran

Trump stays mum on tariffs and focuses on geopolitics. Risk appetite remains fragile as gold skyrockets. A busy data calendar today that also includes Fed speaker...

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• February 4, 2025

Gold Prices Surge Amid a Weakening Dollar and Escalating Trade Tensions

Gold Rockest on Persisting Trade War Fears The gold ( XAU/USD ) price rallied by 1% on Tuesday as the US dollar (USD) continued to retreat from...

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