S&P 500 futures are now down 0.2% on the day as the wires are noting that Trump has left “without a press conference on the outcome”. He does love to make a show of things but isn’t doing so this time around. So, read what you want into that if you will. But just for
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The Bank of Japan (BoJ) board members decided to keep the short-term interest rate target steady in the range of 0.4%- 0.5% following the conclusion of its two-day monetary policy review meeting on Thursday. The decision came in line with the market expectations. The Japanese central bank extended the pause to its tightening cycle into
Australia Import Price Index (Q3 2025 ) -0.4% q/q expected -0.3%, prior -0.8% Export Price Index -0.9% prior -4.5% This article was written by Eamonn Sheridan at investinglive.com. Source link
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Wednesday’s big tech earnings, the most significant single day for earnings for the rest of the year, came in mixed. Microsoft (MSFT) and Meta Platforms (META) saw their share prices sink, while Alphabet (GOOGL) stock rallied more than 5%. All three of the Mag 7 giants beat their particular Wall Street consensus figure for revenue,
Microsoft Q1 2026 results ($MSFT) EPS: $3.72 vs est. $3.67 Revenue: $77.67B vs est. $75.55B Intelligent Cloud revenue: $30.9B vs est. $30.18B Total Cloud revenue: $49.1B Azure & Other Cloud revenue (ex-FX): +39% y/y vs est. +37.1% Microsoft reported better-than-expected fiscal first-quarter results, with EPS of $3.72 topping estimates of $3.67 and revenue rising to
At the post-meeting press conference, Fed Chair Jerome Powell explained why policymakers had decided to lower the Federal Funds Target Range (FFTR) to 3.75%–4.00% after the October meeting and took questions from reporters about the move. Chief Powell’s press conference takeaways Data available suggests the outlook for employment and inflation has not changed much since
After cutting interest rates for the first time this year in September, the Federal Reserve on Wednesday announced its widely expected decision to lower interest rates by another quarter point. The Fed said it decided to lower the target range for the federal funds rate by 25 basis points to 3.75 percent to 4.0 percent
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There’s no sense denying it: the recent sell-off in gold pricing is predominantly technical. Naturally, prices in the markets don’t trend in straight lines: if they did, we’d all have more money than we know what to do with. I mean to say, retracements towards the average are necessary for an uptrend to continue, although
The Bank of Canada today said it would take a ‘material’ change in its lowered outlook for the economy to cut rates again. The central bank lowered its overnight rate to 2.25% from 2.50% but indicated that’s the final cut planned, while acknowledging considerable uncertainty around trade and the path of growth. The market still
The Euro (EUR) is entering Wednesday’s NA session roughly flat against the US Dollar (USD) as it recovers from minor overnight losses and finds renewed support on the back of broader trade-related sentiment, Scotiabank’s Chief FX Strategists Shaun Osborne and Eric Theoret report. EUR’s technicals remain neutral “Correlation studies reveal a renewed strengthening in the
After reporting a sharp increase by pending home sales in the U.S. in the previous month, the National Association of Realtors released a report on Wednesday showing pending home sales unexpectedly came in flat in the month of September. NAR said its pending homes sales index was unchanged at 74.8 in September after surging by
2025.10.29 2025.10.29 What Is Tick in Trading: Definition, Value & Strategy Artem Parshinhttps://www.litefinance.org/blog/authors/artem-parshin/ Modern trading in financial markets often comes down to short-term operations and minimal time intervals. The smallest of these is the tick chart — a tool so precise that it shows every trade executed in a security. Despite its unusual structure, tick
Next surges on profit upgrade Next shares jumped more than 7% after the retailer raised its full-year pre-tax profit forecast to £1.14 billion. The upgrade follows 10.5% sales growth in the third quarter (Q3), demonstrating the group’s ability to navigate challenging consumer conditions. The move higher confirms Next’s reputation as the UK retail sector’s standout
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