US Nonfarm Payrolls data for March 2025 is released April 4th, with expected job growth of 135K- 140K. Market reaction is heavily influenced by recent tariff announcements and expectations of...
Gold Declines, but Bullish Trend Remains Intact The gold (XAU/USD) price declined by 0.66% during a very volatile trading session on Thursday as traders weighed the impact of US President Donald...
After much anticipation, the tariff band-aid was finally ripped off yesterday. Unfortunately for those expecting the news to be relatively painless, they were left disappointed with discomfort as the...
While traditional financial markets experienced severe turbulence on Thursday, April 3, 2025, with major U.S. indexes posting significant losses following President Donald Trump’s sweeping new tariff...
The trade deficit improved slightly in February, as exports increased by $8 billion while imports remained unchanged. I don’t believe the trade deficit is the big issue here, as the countries that...
NFP report expectations: +137K jobs, +0.3% m/m earnings, unemployment at 4.1% Leading indicators point to near-expectation reading in this month’s NFP report. Headline job growth is potentially...
With the new measures included, the total tariffs on China, Japan and the EU are now 54%, 24% and 20% respectively. Most instruments apart from havens declined sharply in the aftermath of the...
The US Dollar and stocks around the world are in a freefall today after US President Donald Trump slapped “reciprocal” tariffs of between 10% and 49% on nearly every country. The economic sense of...
Some 80% of the job cuts in March are DOGE-related. March saw 275,240 jobs cuts in the U.S., the third most monthly total of all-time, according to the Challenger Report, a monthly jobs report...
Today's batch of economic indicators shows a few signs that Trump Turmoil 2.0 started to weigh on the economy during March. That’s the message from the month's national ISM manufacturing purchasing...