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ANGLES.
Every Sunday, Anglia Advisors founder Simon Brady CFP® CETF® recaps the week in financial markets.
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Episodes
ANGLES.Dazed And Confused.
Confusion reigned on Wall Street and around the world after the previous Friday’s appellate court decision confirming that IEEPA tariffs are illegal. The…
ANGLES.Keeping Calm. Carrying On.
Traders came into last week breathing easier after Fed chairman Powell strongly implied the previous Friday that a Federal Funds rate cut is coming on…
ANGLES.Tug Of War.
Wall Street is suddenly staring at two existential questions that it never thought it would have to face; about the independence of the Federal Reserve and…
ANGLES.Crumbling.
The big news of the weekend was the announcement of a US/EU trade deal resulting in a 15% tariff on imports from most of mainland Europe (including on…
ANGLES.Lowered Temperature.
Ahead of a big week of earnings reports including a first look at some Big Tech, it was a relatively quiet weekend on the newswires although reports did emerge…
ANGLES.Nothing Burger.
Ahead of a risk-filled big few days in tariff-world, stock markets were jittery at the opening bell on Monday, not helped by yet another massive plunge in the…
ANGLES.Non-Stop Swings.
There was yet more tariff whiplash over the weekend as the US and Canada appeared to kiss and make up after the the previous Friday’s trade squabble. Trump…
ANGLES.Moving On.
Over the weekend, Trump (despite having campaigned noisily just last year on a platform of US non-intervention in global military entanglements) ordered direct…
ANGLES.Spoiled For Choice.
[Note: this report was put together before Saturday evening’s US airstrikes on Iran] Financial markets were spoiled for choice about what to focus on at the…
ANGLES.Remaining Cool.
With temperatures rising on the streets of Los Angeles, Wall Street remained cool to start the week with attention focused on the US/China talks in London as…
ANGLES.Walking The Walk.
US/China trade tensions flared up over the weekend with both sides aggressively accusing the other of violating the Geneva agreement that is currently capping…
ANGLES.The TACO Trade.
To the surprise of absolutely no-one on Sunday, Trump backed down on his threat of a massive June 1st blanket 50% tariff on the European Union. The supposed…
ANGLES.Toxic Brew.
As anticipated, the powerful symbolism of US sovereign debt being stripped of its final AAA credit rating the previous week weighed on stocks and unnerved the…
ANGLES.Touching The Stove.
Early on Monday morning, Treasury Secretary Bessent confirmed a 90-day “cooling-off period” between the US and China with both countries slashing their tariffs…
ANGLES.All Eyes On Switzerland.
Trump couldn’t help himself at the weekend and took another one of his regular juvenile potshots at Fed chairman Powell, this time he’s apparently “a total…
ANGLES.Coming Back To Life.
After a scorching 7% rally in just four trading days the previous week to almost pre-”Liberation Day” levels, stocks took a breather at the open on Monday as a…
ANGLES.Welcome To The Jungle.
Trump’s simmering resentment towards Fed chairman Powell for not bowing to his demands for an immediate interest rate cut was set off again over the weekend by…
ANGLES.Really, Really Ugly.
If I were a cynic (heaven forbid!), I might suggest that Apple chairman Tim Cook’s large donation to Trump’s inauguration fund may be starting to pay off. The…
ANGLES.The Melting Ice Cube.
So much to talk about this week, so let’s get right to it .. The weekend break did nothing to calm the stock market’s shredded nerves as the Trump…
ANGLES.Turbulence.
Markets began last week as they had finished the previous one, in a world of pain. This was always going to be Tariff Week with Wednesday the key day of…
ANGLES.Flying Blind.
A Fed week began on Monday with financial markets pretty much on hold. While there was zero probability of an interest rate cut announcement, the Wednesday…
ANGLES.Horror Show.
Over the weekend, Trump went on TV and pointedly refused to rule out a tariff-fueled recession in the United States. Anybody who attended an eighth grade…
ANGLES.In A Pickle.
Exhausting deadlines about tariffs are not going away (Warren Buffet described them as “an act of war” last week) and market volatility is an inevitable…
ANGLES.Not So Magnificent.
The German federal elections on Sunday panned out mostly as expected and hoped for by financial markets with political stability still within reach after some…
ANGLES.The Specter.
Over the weekend, Trump fired off yet another tariff broadside on his way to the Super Bowl. This time he floated the idea of a 25% surcharge on steel and…
ANGLES.Climbdown.
Trump ushered in what the Wall Street Journal called “the dumbest trade war in history” at the weekend when his administration imposed punitive tariffs on a…
ANGLES.Ping-Pong.
Investor attention was focused on the Capitol in Washington DC on Monday rather than on the New York Stock Exchange which was closed for Martin Luther King…
ANGLES.Standing Ovation.
Over the weekend, oil prices rallied to their highest levels in five months, as a fresh wave of US sanctions against Russia’s energy industry threatened to…
ANGLES.Where The Real Action Is ..
The week began with growing concerns on Wall Street about the potentially chaotic nature of the upcoming administration and its propensity to balloon the…
ANGLES.When One Door Closes ..
The death of former President Carter on Monday means that, in keeping with tradition, US stock markets will be closed this coming Thursday, January 9th for the…
ANGLES.Where's Santa?
With the risk of a government shutdown pushed out to March, traders breathed a small sigh of relief over the weekend. But the chaotic intervention by…
ANGLES.Walking Into A Dark Room.
As we entered 2024’s final full week of trading, political turmoil raged around the world. A vote of no-confidence brought down the German government, French…
ANGLES.Rather Sticky.
After the rapidly spiraling events in Syria over the weekend, attention was temporarily refocused on geopolitics and the potential tinderbox that is the Middle…
ANGLES.Steady Cycle?
Wall Street’s eyes last week were firmly on important labor market data coming out on Tuesday and especially on Friday, with the release of the latest Jobs…
ANGLES.Injection Of Hope.
Stocks began the week on Monday in a more upbeat mood, with buyers re-emerging to scoop up some of the discounted Tech/AI names following the previous week’s…
ANGLES.Uncertainty Transformed.
The bond market was closed on Monday for Veterans’ Day, but the stock market was up and running and squeaked out a tiny further extension of its winning streak…
ANGLES.Continue Churning.
Wall Street appeared rather disinterested on Monday ahead of a busy week of earnings reports and stocks weakened on the back of some unsurprising, but still…
ANGLES.Extraordinary Strength.
The market’s positive momentum from the end of the previous week followed through into Monday after a generally quiet weekend on the newswires and with the…
ANGLES.A Lot Of Noise.
Stocks began the week nervously on Monday with tit-for-tat attacks further raising the geopolitical temperature in the Middle East and the resulting continued…
ANGLES.Monster Surprise.
Q3 came to an end last week with the S&P 500 pulling off its best first three quarters in any year since 1997. It also completed its fourth straight quarterly…
ANGLES.Coin Flip.
Last week’s big data points were mostly inflation-related with the release of CPI and PPI, but all of a sudden inflation is no longer the big issue it used to…
ANGLES.Asymmetry.
Septembers can often be tricky as professional stock traders begin to liquidate some of their positions ahead of the year-end with tax considerations…
ANGLES.Victory Lap.
Things got off to a somewhat muted low-volume start on Monday with many A-list institutional traders at the beach this week. Their B squads seemed to be under…
ANGLES.Good News Is Finally Good News Again.
It’s less than two weeks since financial markets seemed to be teetering on a precipice. Japan had raised interest rates, a complex currency trade had broken…
ANGLES.Storm Clouds.
It’s not often you get the kind of violent, concentrated two-way turbulence that we experienced last week. In the course of three days, the S&P 500 had both…
ANGLES.Great Rotation?
Despite the politically consequential events in Pennsylvania the weekend before, the assassination attempt appeared not to have been that much of a…