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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.Intensity Spike.
The surprising outcome of the French parliamentary elections the previous day, where the left, centre and right all essentially cancelled each other out to…
ANGLES.Fireworks.
Following the car crash of a presidential debate and an apparent outbreak of civil war in the Democratic party, Wall Street strategists and traders have…
ANGLES.Excruciating.
Last week saw the end of the month, Q2 and H1. As I will summarize next week in my Q2 Quarterly Report, stock indexes broadly did ok over these periods, but…
ANGLES.Breadcrumbs.
Stocks moved cautiously higher in a bifurcated week, with the S&P 500 achieving its eighth weekly advance from the last nine and ending up just south of…
ANGLES.Off To The Races.
Last week was all about Big Wednesday, with pretty limited price movements on any of the other four days. Interest rate cut sentiment has now swung back to…
ANGLES.Cherry-Picking.
Last week provided a perfect example of how you can create any narrative you like simply by cherry-picking data. The glass-is-half full crowd needed to look no…
ANGLES.Down In The Dumps.
The melt-up momentum in U.S. stocks since late October of last year is showing signs of faltering after a mixed four trading days ended a five-week winning…
ANGLES.Happy Talking.
It was a fourth straight week of higher stock prices with markets in a sweet spot right now as recent data has shown that growth is slowing but still positive…
ANGLES.No Real Spark.
Another positive week for stocks mostly came about exclusively because of last Monday’s favorable price action. The indexes then barely moved from Tuesday…
ANGLES.Dead Boogeyman?
Last week saw a pretty dismal month of April finally come to an end with most indexes suffering a >4% loss for the month, the first monthly setback of the…
ANGLES.There's An Elephant In The Room.
In the end it proved to be a rotten week for U.S. stocks. A geopolitical shadow hung over markets the whole time with American officials warning of an imminent…
ANGLES.Comfortable With Their Positioning.
Stocks edged ever so slightly higher in a rather uninspiring, holiday-shortened week that brought a spectacular, record-filled first quarter to an end, but the…
ANGLES.Goldilocks Still Alive.
Wall Street was in a very optimistic mood last week, boosted by a highly positive take on the outcome of the Fed interest rate-setting meeting on Wednesday and…
ANGLES.Wait And See.
It was a jittery week for stocks during which data was released that confirmed that the American consumer may be putting the brakes on spending and that the…
ANGLES.Long Road To Nowhere.
Stocks took a long road to nowhere, ending the week right back where they started it - with a sharp fall and then a solid comeback rally with yet more new…
ANGLES.A Pathetic Punt.
It was more of the same. For the second week running, stocks played a nervous waiting game for the first three days of the week, afraid of being disappointed…
ANGLES.Very Little Room.
There was only one name on Wall Street’s lips last week; chipmaker Nvidia, the last of the Magnificent Seven stocks to report Q4 2023 earnings on Wednesday…
ANGLES.The Year Of The Dragon.
We are entering the year of the dragon on the Chinese calendar which it appears traditionally signifies good luck, prosperity, strength and abundance. Although…
ANGLES.Shiny And New.
A steady stream of earnings reports last week, along with continued positive economic and inflation data, set up the stock market for another shift higher. But…
ANGLES.A Bit Of A Yawn.
This was the week that Microsoft edged past Apple to reclaim the title of the world’s most valuable company. The software giant now has a valuation of $2.89…
ANGLES.Easy, Tiger.
The happy clappy days of late 2023 already seemed like a bit of a distant memory at times last week. This was the worst four-day start to a calendar year…
ANGLES.Not Quite.
We will all have to wait at least a little while longer for that new all-time record high in the S&P 500 index. Despite teasing us at times during what was a…
ANGLES.We Can't Hear You!
The final full trading week of 2023 was basically more of the same. With many market participants already in holiday mode, volumes were low but even a rare…
ANGLES.The Burden Of Proof.
Stocks had another terrific week, boosted by the interest rate cut-friendly tone of the Federal Reserve and its Chair Jerome Powell on Wednesday. The S&P 500…
ANGLES.Truly Spectacular.
Stocks closed out a truly spectacular November last week with the S&P 500 index finishing about 9% higher than it was at the beginning of the month. Tech…
ANGLES.A Very High Bar.
Stocks moved higher last week for the fourth week in a row with the major indexes ending the holiday-shortened week up by about 1%. The sense grew that the…
ANGLES.Narrative Roulette.
A rather uneventful week was saved by a solid final day, although arguably the biggest event came after the close on Friday when a U.S. credit rating outlook…
ANGLES.A Rather Large Amount Of Hedging.
It was a sensational week for stocks, the best of the year, with prices rising each and every day. In the end, the S&P 500 Large Caps and Russell 2000 Small…
ANGLES.Stuck In The Mud.
It was another pretty brutal week for stocks. Last week, the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ indexes both dropped by more than 2% and officially joined the Russell 2000…
ANGLES.Dazed And Confused.
The stock market was open on Monday although the bond market wasn’t and it had its first chance to react to the latest flare up of the conflict in Israel and…
ANGLES.A Bad Smell.
The month of September duly lived up to its stock-killing reputation and there was a strong sense of good riddance from investors as markets closed on Friday…
ANGLES.Reading The Tea Leaves.
Last week was always going to be about Wednesday’s Federal Reserve meeting and its fallout. We are undergoing a major shift from the question being “How high…
ANGLES.Trading Jabs.
U.S. markets found themselves heavily impacted last week by a number of decisions made from beyond its shores. The United States and China continue to trade…
ANGLES.Interrupted?
There’s a very accurate saying that that you can win just about any financial argument you like by simply adjusting the start and end dates of a scenario…
ANGLES.Afraid Of Its Own Shadow.
As I’ll show in a moment, earnings and economic data last week generally propped up the case for a soft landing for the US economy and should have been…
ANGLES.Just Following The Playbook.
The stock market playbook is being followed exactly as we would expect and in the way that I have been banging on about in my recent weekly reports. The plain…
ANGLES.All Aboard The Happy Train?
Bank of America became the latest to hop aboard the now-rather crowded Happy Train early last week, eagerly joining Team No Recession. The abrupt change of…
ANGLES.Open Door.
To the surprise of precisely nobody, the Federal Reserve resumed its campaign of interest rate increases on Wednesday, pushing its target Fed Funds rate up…
ANGLES.Soon To Be Erased?
Less than twenty months after it began, the bear market that engulfed the S&P 500 in early 2022 is now just 260 points away from being completely erased. 2023…
ANGLES.Short And Shallow?
Short and shallow seems to be the growing expectation surrounding any 2023 recession, if it ever even arrives at all. The US economy is stronger than most…
ANGLES.Evaporating.
Fears of an imminent destructive recession and hopes of any interest rate cuts in 2023 are evaporating in equal measure, with each narrative pulling markets in…
ANGLES.Higher For Longer.
Q2 and H1 2023 came to close on Friday. I’ll be releasing a full deep-dive review of the quarter in the financial markets in my feed in the next few days. For…
ANGLES.Pushing Back.
US stocks endured a difficult holiday-shortened week amid concerns that higher interest rates could cause a slowdown in economic growth both here and abroad…
ANGLES.Connect The Dots.
It was quite an extraordinary week in financial markets and potentially a very consequential one. The S&P 500 closed on Thursday at a higher level than it was…
ANGLES.Over The Edge?
According to Wall Street’s categorization rules, the S&P 500 index exited bear market territory on Thursday when it closed up more than 20% from its lows from…
ANGLES.Mixed Signals.
Despite the best efforts of the whining Congressional arsonists on both sides, the Biden/McCarthy debt deal cruised comfortably through the House of…
