Real Vision: Finance & Investing

The transition to clean energy is an extremely important and noble cause but achieving future net-zero targets “will be very, very difficult.” That’s the message from Wil VanLoh, the Founder and CEO of Quantum Energy Partners, a private equity firm that’s been building energy companies for nearly a quarter century. Wil also happens to be a long-time friend of Kyle’s, and in the second installment...

Emad Mostaque is democratizing artificial intelligence. The hedge fund manager turned entrepreneur is the founder of Stability AI, the company behind Stable Diffusion, an image-generating algorithm that creates new, never-before-seen pictures. It’s the most advanced technology in AI, and Emad is bringing it to the masses. In the first episode of our ‘Best of 2022’ series, Emad shows Raoul how quic...

U.S. equities took another tumble on Thursday as the worst December for stocks since 2018 continues. Meanwhile, Asia markets rallied on some upbeat earnings and a strengthened yen. On today’s show, the editor of The Daily Dirtnap, Jared Dillian, joins Maggie Lake to share how he’s deciphering the latest price action as we look ahead to the new year. Plus, we’ll hear from Weston Nakamura on why the...

The yen slipped slightly today after surging almost 4% on Tuesday, after the Bank of Japan surprisingly tweaked its yield curve control policy. U.S. equities are up for the second straight day, providing a glimmer of hope for a better-than-expected earnings season. On today’s show, Andreas Steno Larsen is joined by the founder of 42 Macro, Darius Dale, to discuss where we are in the global liquidi...

The Bank of Japan’s surprise move to change its policy and allow the 10-year JGB yield to move 50 basis points on either side of its 0% target, caught global markets off guard. In this deep dive, Weston Nakamura tells us what we’re all missing in the central bank’s slightly more hawkish tone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

U.S. stocks fell to start the week, with the Nasdaq leading to the downside. As of Friday’s close, the S&P 500 had fallen 5.6% so far this month. So, how much more room is there below? Let’s see what the charts have to say. On today’s show, Katie Stockton, the founder and managing partner of Fairlead Strategies, joins Maggie Lake to share her short- and long-term outlook for the markets and review...

Peter Brandt is the CEO of Factor LLC, a global trading firm he founded in 1980 that trades proprietary capital, forex, futures, fixed income, and equity markets. Brandt is widely recognized as one of the finest classical chartists in the world, and now he joins MI2 Partners’ Harry Melandri to break down why all signs are pointing to a major move in gold in 2023. Brandt also shares why he’s intere...

You’ve never gone as deep with Real Vision co-founder and CEO Raoul Pal as you will in this special two-part episode of My Life in 4 Trades. Raoul talks to Maggie Lake about everything from his childhood in the U.K. to his early days in finance – and, of course, the most impressive trades of his career and what he learned from them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoi...

Markets sold off again today to close the week, down drastically from Tuesday morning’s post-CPI highs. The reversal comes as central bankers in the U.S. and abroad continued to hike interest rates despite mounting evidence of a looming recession. On today’s show, Warren Pies, the co-founder and strategist at 3Fourteen Research, joins Andreas Steno Larsen to discuss what 2023 will bring, what’s dr...

Description The European Central Bank and Bank of England followed the Federal Reserve in raising interest rates another 50 basis points this morning. Meanwhile, U.S. retail sales fell 0.6% and two regional measures of U.S. manufacturing activity slipped, as consumers and producers alike feel the brunt of a contracting economy. Stocks are considerably lower on the day, with the NASDAQ down 3.75% a...

The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by 50 basis points today. It was a seventh consecutive rate hike from the Fed, four straight three-quarter point hikes. Markets moved lower in response to the expected lower increase, as forecasts now show a higher terminal interest rate later in 2023. Meanwhile, the U.K. inflation rate eased from a 41-year high in November. On today’s Daily Briefing, Dari...

Stocks surged this morning after cooler-than-expected inflation data showed that consumer prices in November rose at the slowest 12-month pace since December 2021. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose just 0.1% from the prior month and 7.1% year-over-year, down sharply from 7.7% YoY in October. But by noon ET, stocks erased all gains and now appear to be in a holding pattern ahead of tomorrow’s Fed...

On today’s Real Vision Daily Briefing, Bilal Hafeez, the CEO of MacroHive, joins Andreas Steno Larsen for a discussion on the upcoming Fed decision and what ripple effects it could have on the global economy. The market is pricing in a drop in inflation ahead of tomorrow’s CPI print, but will that signal a green light for investors? Plus, we’ll also hear from expert Fed watcher Joseph Wang on why...

Stocks are relatively flat while treasury yields moved higher following an upside surprise in U.S. PPI this morning. Producer prices rose 0.3% month-over-month in November, above market forecasts of 0.2%. In today’s show, Maggie Lake is joined by Spectra Markets’ president Brent Donnelly to help us understand the latest inflation data and what it means for next week’s Federal funds rate announceme...

U.S. jobless claims this morning rose to their highest level since February. Meanwhile, China’s outbound shipments plunged 8.7% year-over-year and Hong Kong stocks rose 3% as the financial hub considers easing up on covid lockdowns. On today’s show, Maggie Lake sits down with Taimur Baig, the Chief Economist of Singapore-based bank DBS, to discuss the mixed economic data from around the world, and...

Price action continues to reflect investors’ collective ambivalence about what comes next, with Wall Street warning of grim prospects for both stocks and growth in 2023. As Jason De Sena Trennert sees it, the “greatest risk to the economy and markets may be the Fed’s need to tighten more than risk markets anticipate.” That crude oil is probing near-term lows even as China eases some “COVID zero” r...

The U.S. equity sell-off extended to a fourth straight trading session today, as the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite again led to the downside with a 2.18% loss two hours ahead of the close. Meta Platforms is under regulatory scrutiny in the European Union, Apple is contending with supply-chain restructuring, and Tesla faces stiffening competition amid its CEO’s social media dabbling. And job cuts acr...

The Institute for Supply Management’s gauge of services activity rose to 56.5 last month from 54.4 in October, surprising to the upside and stirring fresh worry the Federal Reserve will continue to err on the hawkish side when it comes to monetary policy. The major U.S. equity indexes all sagged more than 1%, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite shedding 2.13% two hours ahead of the close. Crude o...

It’s already been a tough, strange 11 months for everyone – and 2022’s not over yet. On a weekly interval basis, the S&P 500 has been in the red for more than 60% of the year. Treasuries have gone through multiple, nasty downturns and haven’t exactly performed counter to traditional risk assets. How much longer will this bear last? Are there any signs of hope? Michael Gayed, portfolio manager at T...

Harris “Kuppy” Kupperman, the founder and chief investment officer of Praetorian Capital and the author of the “Adventures in Capitalism” blog, has been investing for more than two decades. You don’t survive that long in financial markets without accruing some success. Kuppy joins Maggie Lake to discuss his approach to trend-following and event-driven investing, with illustrations from the early d...

Equity futures sagged this morning with the release of a stronger-than-expected nonfarm payrolls report for November, as both the pace of new hiring and wage growth suggested inflation is more than a matter of snarled supply chains and a European war. Cem Karsan, the founder of Kai Volatility Advisors, joins Andreas Steno Larsen for today’s Daily Briefing to assess the implications of persistent U...

The Institute of Supply Management’s gauge of manufacturing activity declined for the fifth month out of the last six in November and slipped below 50 for the first time since May 2020, another sign that growth is slowing in the U.S. As investors look forward to Friday’s jobs report, initial claims for unemployment insurance reached 1.6 million during the week ended Nov. 19, the highest level in a...

U.S. equity indexes surged into positive territory as Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell spoke on Wednesday on his acknowledgement that the “time for moderating” interest-rate increases “may come as soon as December.” The market seized on the step-down from 75 basis points to 50 rather than Powell’s codicils: the rate peak is likely “somewhat higher” than the Fed’s September forecast, and there’s...

Real Vision Global Markets Editor Weston Nakamura visits the WTFinance podcast to share with host Anthony Fatseas his unconventional path to a career in markets and to explain his unique methods of analyzing price action. Weston and Anthony also talk about why the Bank of Japan is the most influential central bank of our time and a potential catalyst for further bond market volatility. Watch the v...

U.S. equities were mixed-to-negative heading into Tuesday’s close, as investors remain cautious ahead of Friday’s release of the November jobs report. Chinese authorities seem to have stifled “Zero COVID” protests, as concerns about growth in the world’s second-largest economy persist. Crude oil prices have stabilized today, with the generic front-month futures contract trading around the historic...