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In this video, Ira Epstein covers a range of financial topics in his morning flash update for September 17, 2025. He discusses the significant increase in mortgage refinancing rates despite a drop in housing starts and building permits.
The persistent weakness of the U.S. dollar, ahead of the U.S. interest rate cut announcement later today, has helped the EUR/USD bulls quickly push the pair to the 1.1878 resistance level with a daily gain of nearly 1%.
US Treasury yields continued to ease on Wednesday, yet the dollar delivered a mixed performance in early trade—slipping against the yen and yuan while rebounding against most other currencies.
Nvidia shares slipped over 1% in pre-market trading after the Financial Times reported that China’s internet regulator has banned the country’s biggest technology companies from buying its artificial intelligence chips.
Tesla Inc. has experienced a notable stock surge driven by strong technical momentum and positive news, despite facing mixed fundamental performance and cautious analyst sentiment.
From fuel markets to regulators, the system is layered and opaque. Consumers think they are paying for power; in reality, they are funding infrastructure projects, policy goals, and investor returns.
The Canadian dollar strengthened to 1.38 per US dollar in September, reaching monthly highs after domestic data reinforced expectations that the Bank of Canada would take a cautious approach to rate cuts.
Bankinter has paid quarterly variable dividends since October 1998. The current forward-looking annual $0.69 dividend yields 4.47% per Friday’s $15.49 share price.
Asian stocks fluctuated between minor gains and losses as investors awaited the Federal Reserve’s policy announcement, speculating that the central bank might lower interest rates for the first time this year.
The EUR/USD pair surged to 1.1854 USD on Wednesday, reaching its highest level since September 2021. Investors are positioning ahead of the Federal Reserve’s highly anticipated interest rate decision, due later today.
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If credibility is degraded, then tariff-induced cost-push shocks are less likely to manifest as one-off price level increases and more likely to spur a bout of inflation.
August US nominal retail sales rose more strongly than anticipated, but volume growth remains range-bound with consumers wary of potential tariff-induced price hikes and broadening evidence of a cooling jobs market.
The White House has turned its attention to the Bureau of Labor Statistics after a series of steep payroll revisions rattled confidence in the government’s jobs data.
The Canadian Dollar (CAD) strengthens against the US Dollar (USD) on Tuesday, with USD/CAD extending losses for the second straight day and dropping to its lowest level since September 1.
Coface SA has paid quarterly variable dividends since May, 2024. The current forward-looking annual $1.58 dividend yields 8.67% per Monday’s $18.22 share price. The most recent $1.58 A dividend was paid on May 22nd.
Headline industrial production rose 0.1%% in August, but after revisions to prior months, the net was a decline of -0.1% compared with the initial reading last month for July.
The EUR/USD pair is testing key resistance near 1.1785, with bullish momentum suggesting a possible run toward the psychological 1.20 level if the Fed confirms further rate cuts.
BTC/USD steadies above $125K with ETF inflows supporting price, but weakening momentum signals risk of a pullback toward 107,100 before any push to 120,000.
The Euro extends gains against the US Dollar for the third straight day on Monday, as the Greenback remains under pressure amid firm expectations that the Fed will lower interest rates at its monetary policy meeting on Wednesday.
Recently, the communications sector has powered stocks to new all-time highs as technology's sibling sector. Technology itself exploded to new all-time highs, reinforcing the thesis that we remain in the early stages of a new bull market.
Oracle Corp. reported brilliant fiscal first-quarter results as the company’s remaining performance obligations jumped 359% to over $455 billion, an amazing $300 billion increase during the quarter...
This week is all about central banks in general, and specifically the Fed decision on Wednesday, which will see the continuation of the US rate-cutting cycle that started exactly a year ago and got as far as one 50bps and two 25bps cuts...
In 2025, the mainstream Keynesian narrative that the United States would inevitably experience a recession and stagflation has proven to be utterly incorrect.
The Federal Reserve is expected to cut interest rates by at least a quarter percent this week, dropping its federal funds rate to between 4 and 4.25 percent. What will that mean for gold and silver?
Political instability and missed fiscal targets are raising doubts about France’s ability to meet EU rules and avoid further rating downgrades. Here's what's happening and how the markets are reacting.
UnitedHealth Group shows strong fundamentals and recent momentum but faces regulatory risks and analyst targets that suggest potential downside in the near term.
After a strong week, markets are getting off to a positive start this week ahead of this week’s Fed meeting. The S&P 500 is expected to open with a gain of 0.25%.
