Colclough

Outlook Today we get retail sales and industrial production, with retail sales the focus because the weather in January was simply dreadful and kept folks home, so sales should be lower. We are not so sure, looking at our Amazon bill. In Dec, sales grow 0.4% and the consensus forecast for Jan is -0.

CPI is HOT, PPI is due out at 8:30. Risk goes from cut to hike! Stocks & Bonds sell off – yields surge higher. Oil declines on ‘end of war’s chatter, gold churns at the heights. Try the Bucatini All’ Amatriciana And it’s HOT in the kitchen…. CPI surging higher than the estimates, surprising almo

S2N spotlight It has been a while since I have spent so much time on portfolio construction. The last few days I have been working diligently with a colleague on a white paper, going into it in more detail. However, for now, I thought I would share some of my discoveries. It all starts with a typica

Hello Traders! Today, we’ll dive into the 4H Elliott Wave structure of SPDR Health Care ETF ($XLV) and explain why the corrective pullback could present an excellent buying opportunity. Let’s analyze the price action and forecast the next steps. 5 Wave Impulse Structure + ABC correction$XL

Since taking office, President Trump has confirmed his threats to raise tariffs, but fears of universal and widespread application have abated somewhat. He will decide whether to carry out his threats once an audit of the United States’ trade relations with all its trading partners has been complete

USD/JPY USDJPY remains constructive and ticks higher on Tuesday, on surprise slowdown in safe haven demand after President Trump imposed new set of tariffs on imports of metals. Also, investors are taking a breather ahead of today’s testimony of Fed Chair Powell and Wednesday’s release of US inflati

US Dollar (USD) could edge higher but is unlikely to break above 7.3300. In the longer run, outlook remains mixed, but USD is likely to trade in a narrower range of 7.2500/7.3300, UOB Group's FX analysts Quek Ser Leang and Peter Chia note. USD is likely to trade in a narrower range of 7.2500/7.3300

S&P 500 moved in a tight range yesterday, with a mini flash crash late in the session. Recovering back to low 6,100s is the stage set for jubilation following NFPs? Some could argue the job market is slowing down and downward revisions are more of a rule than exception, others such as myself wou

Health care was a bright spot once again for the U.S. economy in January, even as overall job growth showed signs of slowing. Data on job growth in different area of the economy from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed health care and social assistance as the leading category, adding 66,000 jobs.