TODAY’S GAME PLAN:  from the trading desk, this is not research DATA/HEADLINES   8:30ET Chicago Fed Nat Activity Index; 10:30 Dallas Fed Manf. Activity: 6:00ET Fed’s Kashkari speaks TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS:   Costco plans to offer members access to medical care through a deal with online marketplace Sesame Asteroid chunks that may tell us about the earliest days […]
  TODAY’S GAME PLAN:  from the trading desk, this is not research DATA/HEADLINES   8:30ET  Weekly Jobless Claims, Current Acct Balance, Philly Fed; 10:00ET Existing Home Sales, Leading Index; 1:00ET $15 Billion 10-Year TIPS Reopening Friday – China’s Bund Summit, Japan CPI, PMIs, Bank of Japan rate decision, Eurozone S&P Global Eurozone PMIs, US S&P Global Manufacturing […]
  TODAY’S GAME PLAN:  from the trading desk, this is not research DATA/HEADLINES   2:00ET  FOMC Rate Decision; 2:30ET Fed Chair Powell’s press conference* ; 5:30ET Brazil Rate Decision   TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS:   Hunter Biden will plead not guilty to federal gun charges China urges deeper trade ties with Russia despite disapproval from the West Brazilian Navy said […]
  TODAY’S GAME PLAN:  from the trading desk, this is not research DATA/HEADLINES   10:30ET Dallas Fed Manufacturing Activity: 11:30ET 2 year note auction; 12:30ET Fed’s Barr speaks; 1:00ET 5 year note auction   TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS:   A TV news crew was robbed at gunpoint in Chicago this morning while doing a story about armed robberies in Chicago; […]
  TODAY’S GAME PLAN:  from the trading desk, this is not research DATA/HEADLINES   8:30ET Philly Fed; 10:00ET Existing Home Sales, Richmond Fed Mfg Index; 2:30ET Fed’s Goolsbee speaks   TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS:   Biden sparked outrage during his visit to Maui after making a joke comparing the deadly wildfires with almost losing his ’67 Corvette – Newsweek US […]
I started today’s Opening Print earlier than I generally do. Most of the time I start adding things before the S&P futures close. But I’m still writing it at 9 o’clock at night and then updating it at five in the morning. Over the last several weeks the S&P 500 futures has found itself in […]
The S&P 500 futures opened higher Wednesday and rallied. With the exception of an 11:00 CT 4-handle pullback, the ESM15 moved sideways to higher all day. After it made a late-day high at 2105.50, the German DAX sold off 95 points. With $1.7bil to sell MOC the ESM15 sold off down to 2099.00 in the final […]