29 April 2024Hit 160.245 (34-year high) BoJ/MoF conducted covert (unannounced) intervention after the close. Estimated ¥5–6 trillion spent. Yen jumped from ~160.20 → 154.50 in minutes.

Threats Of Sanctions, Economic Warfare, As Japan-China Relations Sink To Decades Low

retails piling into gold BTC has proven to be designed to liquidate and every other important chart reflects the uncertainty in the market right now, oh and did i mention it's friday? best take a step back take stock next week

An unexpected perfect storm for the US dollar

i think theyre for sure gonna cut it, just wondering if its possible they cut it and then hint at it being like the last rate cut of the year

Powell says 'downside risks to employment appear to have risen,' implying more Fed cuts are...

thats fine what we want to see is UK inflation staying above target while the economy just kind of stays afloat + Takaichi getting her way in Japan

BoE's Mann: High UK food price inflation has great salience in forming inflation expectations

i think there are more retail traders, ex-US traders, and ETF flows than ever and AI and chips are a lot different than a 1999 HTML page, chatGPT users rising way quicker than the internet did in its early days, so like yes the markets expensive ...

Echoes of 1999

the setup was buy the dip until trump dropped that tweet, historically tho when he drops a market damaging tweet like that what happens is 1) big dip 2) priced in 3) range, sideways trade 4) trump does something that turns it around. USDJPY actually ...

Trump: Will impose a tariff of 100% on China, starting November 1st

sort of... except dollar-yen keeps grinding up and if you would have shorted USDCAD at the beginning of the week you'd be in the red right now

Bank of Canada’s Macklem Warns U.S. Dollar Losing Appeal as Hedge

0.6% is still hella weak and the job market is more important, the economy is slowing down and we need that cut

US retail sales up 0.6% in August from July even as tariffs hurt jobs and lead to price hikes

she now owns BTC lets go

Lagarde: Stability through balance: rethinking power in a connected world

could be a big boost

USA, India Keep Door Open to Trade Talks

i think its priced in already and the SP500 pushes a little more

Trump: We'll go to Supreme Court tomorrow on tariffs appeal, need an early decision