Welcome back to Morning Trade Live. It's time now for the big picture. So, let's welcome in the team from Charles Schwab, Cooper Howard, director of fixed income research and strategy, Schwab Center for Financial Research, and Michelle Gibli, the director of international equity research and strategy, Schwab Center for Financial Research.Michelle, I suppose we better start with you just because of course we got this data out of China overnight showing that while it does continue to operate over a $1 trillio ...

The dollar index (DXY00) today is down by -0.24%.  The dollar is moving lower today after the Dec Empire manufacturing survey of general business conditions unexpectedly contracted, a dovish factor for Fed policy.  Also, the strength in stocks today has reduced liquidity demand for the dollar.  The dollar dropped to its low after Fed Governor Stephen Miran said the Fed's policy stance is unnecessarily restrictive on the economy. The dollar is also under pressure as the Fed boosts liquidity in the financi ...

On Friday, the president told telling the Wall Street Journal he was leaning towards [music] choosing Hasset for former Federal Reserve uh and Governor Worsh also potentially to run the Fed. Steve Leeman joins us now on more with some commentary on the two Kevin. Who do what do you think.Poly Market says Hasset. Are you on the Hasset end or on the worst end. >> I I'm on either end. I'm on the end of trying to report what's going on.>> Well, I'm not saying what you're who you who you'd like. I'm saying but t ...

JPMorgan Chase’s $4 trillion asset-management division is launching its first tokenized money-market fund on the Ethereum blockchain, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The bank will initially seed the vehicle with $100 million of its own capital before opening it to external investors from Tuesday. JPMorgan Brings Money Markets Onchain According to the WSJ report the private fund, called the My OnChain Net Yield Fund — or “MONY” — is built on JPMorgan’s in-house tokenization platform, Kinexys ...

Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack said on Friday that she would prefer interest rates to be somewhat more restrictive to continue putting pressure on inflation, which remains too high. “Right now, we’ve got policy that’s right around neutral,” Hammack said. Also, Kansas City Fed President Jeffrey Schmid said he dissented against the latest FOMC’s decision to cut interest rates because inflation remains “too high” and policy should stay modestly restrictive to contain it. At the same time, Chicago Fed Pre ...

Moderate weakness in this week’s US job numbers could feed bullishness toward stocks by increasing the probability of further Federal Reserve interest-rate cuts, according to Morgan Stanley strategist Michael Wilson. Investors are looking to the data for clues on whether the Fed is close to being done easing monetary policy, after three straight cuts, or if it needs to move more aggressively. Most Read from Bloomberg “We are now firmly back in a good is bad/bad is good regime,” Wilson wrote in a note, ...

The FED’s week hasn’t brought any surprises to the market. The Federal Reserve was expected to move the interest rate down by one-quarter of a point, with three members voting against the decision, out of 10. Jerome Powell, the existing FED’s governor, had confirmed another rate cut in 2026, after which, the FED would probably take a break, as the employment situation looks stable, and the next focus in the dual-mandate of the FED would be to focus on inflation. However, traders are already starting to d ...

Equity market continued to trade in negative territory in mid-trading session, taking cues of weak trends in global market and ongoing FII outflows. However, the indices traded with marginal losses at the time of writing, recovering from the day’s low.After an intraday fall of 435 points, Sensex traded at 85,239.98 at 1.25 pm, down by 27.68 points or 0.03 per cent. Nifty 50 dipped 11.85 points or 0.05 per cent to 26,035.10 after hitting an intraday low of 25,904.75.Midcap index slipped, while the smallcap i ...

Why hire a financial advisor who will take around 1% percent of your assets per year when you can get a certificate of deposit (CD) at over 5% with no fee? That alone amounts to a 6% return on your money. One can get a brokerage CD for two years at 5.5%, and with no fee, the return is 6.5%. I will take that any day instead of worrying about what the market is doing and can sleep at night. That’s especially true as a retired person who is not dollar-cost averaging anymore. Prove me wrong. -Chris While, at ...

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