Market Snapshot September 22nd 2026
Brent Falls Below $100 for a Fourth Straight Session and the 10-Year Drops Under 5% — Chips Surge 3%, AMD Touches $1 Trillion, and Trump Hosts Xi on Thursday Data: Main Theme: “The Energy Shock Starts to Unwind” — Hopes for diplomatic efforts to end the war in Iran pushed Brent and WTI below $100, […]
Market Snapshot September 21st 2026
The BoJ Hikes at the Fastest Pace in 36 Years and the Yen Falls Anyway — Two-Year Yields Reach 4.75% and the Curve Starts Flirting With Inversion Data: Main Theme: “Three Central Banks, and a Curve Beginning to Invert” — The Bank of Japan raised its policy rate 25 basis points to 1.25%, its fastest […]
Market Snapshot September 18th 2026
Oil Falls on a Restored Pipeline and the 10-Year Snaps an Eight-Day Streak — the Bank of England Sees “Little Evidence” of the Very Effects Warsh Hiked to Prevent Data: Main Theme: “Two Central Banks, One Oil Shock, Opposite Conclusions” — The Fed hiked on Wednesday to stop energy prices having second and third order […]
Market Snapshot September 17th 2026
The Fed Hikes Unanimously to 3.75–4.00% — Warsh Says the Job Is to Stop Oil Having “Second and Third Order Effects,” and the Dow Falls 631 Points Data: Main Theme: “Unanimous, and Not Finished” — The Federal Reserve raised rates 25 basis points to 3.75%–4.00%, its first increase since 2023, in a unanimous vote after […]
Market Snapshot September 16th 2026
The 10-Year Breaks 5% for the First Time Since 2007 — Warsh Faces a Choice Between Angering the President and Looking Out of Touch Data: Main Theme: “A Threshold Twenty Years in the Making” — The benchmark 10-year Treasury yield rose above 5% to a post-2007 peak on the first day of the FOMC meeting, […]
Market Snapshot September 15th 2026
Amodei Calls for an AI Slowdown and the Chip Gauge Falls 5.9% — Hike Odds Reach 92% as Trump Threatens to “Reshape Trade” If the Fed Moves Data: Main Theme: “A New Risk Arrives in the Middle of an Old One” — Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei called for AI companies to slow the development […]
Market Snapshot September 14th 2026
Core CPI Hits the Hawkish Threshold at 0.3% — and Stocks Rally 1% Because Brent Fell 3% Data: Main Theme: “The Market Is Trading Oil, Not the Fed” — Core CPI rose 0.3% against a 0.2% consensus, hitting the precise threshold that strengthens the case for a September hike, and rate-hike expectations rose accordingly. Equities […]
Market Snapshot September 11th 2026
PPI Accelerates to 5.4% and Brent Briefly Tops $108 — the 10-Year Hits 4.95%, Up Nearly a Full Point Since the War Began Data: Main Theme: “Energy Pass-Through Reaches the Wholesale Data” — August producer prices rose 0.4% in line with consensus, but the annual rate accelerated to 5.4% from 4.8% and energy costs jumped […]
Market Snapshot September 10th 2026
The Treasury Triples Its Buyback to $6 Billion and Yields Rise to 4.857% — Brent Closes Above $101 for the First Time Since July Data: Main Theme: “The Third Intervention Backfired” — The Treasury announced it will triple its buyback of longer-dated government debt to $6 billion. The 10-year yield then rose to 4.857%, its […]
Market Snapshot September 9th 2026
Saudi Oil Facilities Attacked and a Second Undisclosed Salvo on US Navy Ships — Brent Tops $99 After the Bell, Dow Sheds 628 Points Data: Main Theme: “From Tankers to Production Infrastructure” — Saudi Arabia’s oil facilities were attacked, WTI rallied for a sixth consecutive session — its longest run since March — and after […]