🇬🇧 Stay ahead of the markets with Swissquote

Risk sentiment is on the floor this morning after Donald Trump imposed 25% tariff on most Mexican and Canadian imports and 10% tariff on Chinese imports which will take effect from tomorrow – a move, I believe, will certainly backfire and end up in tears for everyone. But it will first add volatility and chaos to the financial markets. The first market reaction on Monday’s open is a swift move to...

The European Central Bank (ECB) cut the interest rates yesterday for the fifth time and voiced concerns about euro area growth and tariff threats. Trump renewed his pledge to impose 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico, sending the currencies of both countries lower against the US dollar. Gold hit a fresh ATH yesterday, backed by a swift move to safety due to the Trump's tariff threats, the rising geo...

Three of the Magnificent 7 companies – and ASML – released their Q4 earnings yesterday and the numbers were ... mixed but hinted at strong AI spending and increased competition with Meta aiming to bring its AI model to a bullion users this year. In China, Alibaba stepped out of the darkness saying that it’s AI model is the greatest of the world and is performing better than Meta and DeepSeek. A gi...

The week started off weak, but what are cryptos chances when an AI correction hits the stock markets? 00:00 Intro 00:25 Preview 00:51 Bitcoin / Deepseek 06:35 Render 09:03 Subscribe & Good bye #crypto #cryptonews #cryptotrading #swissquote _____ Learn the fundamentals of trading at your own pace with Swissquote's Education Center. Discover our online courses, webinars and eBooks: https://swq.ch/wr...

The AI selloff reversed yesterday, Nvidia jumped nearly 9%. ASML this morning announced a set of better-than-expected results that could also help improve sentiment. But the news flow will be intense in the next hours and things could change rapidly. On the menu du jour, the Federal Reserve (Fed) is expected to announce no change to its rates later today, the Bank of Canada (BoC) is expected to cu...

Monday was marked by a trillion dollar selloff in US equities – especially the AI-related names – and a swift flow toward safer assets. Nvidia printed its biggest one-day loss as Nasdaq 100 tanked 3% and nuclear stocks joined the rout. But the selloff may have been exaggerated as there are many unanswered questions regarding the DeepSeek’s AI model, its capacity to rival US tech peers for global d...

Last week wrapped up with a striking contrast: bullish momentum through most of the week gave way to a bearish close on Friday. A set of stronger-than-expected PMI data prompted investors to recalibrate their Federal Reserve (Fed) outlook, weighing stronger economic growth and the likelihood of a more hawkish Fed response. A such, the Stoxx 600 retreated after hitting a fresh record. The S&P500 an...

US 2-year yield and crude oil fell, and the S&P500 extended gains to a fresh ATH yesterday, as US President Donald Trump said – in his virtual speech in Davos – that he would push for further interest rate cuts and ask OPEC to lower crude prices. Chip stocks couldn’t fully benefit from yesterday’s rally as the Korean chipmaker SK Hynix cautioned that the 2025 memory demand outlook was uncertain du...

US equities were boosted by strong earnings and Trump’s AI push. Technology stocks led the rally, while Tesla fell on Elon Musk’s frustration over the closer relationship between Trump and OpenAI’s Sam Altman. Elsewhere, P&G’s latest quarterly report showed that the company’s Q4 sales growth came from higher volumes and not from price hikes, giving hope regarding the US inflation dynamics. Unfortu...

Before he became the 47. President of the United States, Trump and his team launched a...Memecoin? Good or bad for the industry? 00:00 Intro 00:23 Preview 00:36 Viewer Questions 02:06 Bitcoin 03:33 Ethereum 06:12 Solana 09:42 Subscribe & Good bye #crypto #cryptonews #cryptotrading #swissquote _____ Learn the fundamentals of trading at your own pace with Swissquote's Education Center. Discover our...

Netflix blew past the market expectations last quarter and printed its biggest ever quarterly jump in subscriptions. The share price jumped 14% in the afterhours trading. More good news for the tech lovers. Trump, together with Softbank and Oracle, announced to invest as much as $500bn in AI infrastructure in the next four years. Oracle jumped more than 7% on the news, while VanEck’s uranium and n...

Surprise, Trump didn’t throw a punch to China in the first few minutes of his presidency and the WSJ reported that he would study the trade policies and the relationships with China, Canada and Mexico instead. The latter gave hope that Trump’s trade policies wouldn’t be as aggressive as he promised. The US dollar initially fell. BUT WAIT... the dollar jumped again, erasing losses versus most major...

After a few weeks of hesitation around the beginning of the new year, the equity bulls finally returned to the market last week on the back of a set of slower-than-expected inflation figures from both the US and the UK, and a set of stronger-than-expected US big bank results. The global bond yields retreated in the developed world from a peak reached earlier last week and let the equities take a b...

Markets are riding a wave of optimism fueled by slower-than-expected US retail sales, strong earnings from banks and TSM, and hawkish comments from Fed's Christopher Waller hinting at earlier rate cuts if inflation continues its downward trend. Yet, US inflation metrics show core services inflation remains stubbornly high, while energy prices face upward pressure from geopolitical risks like Trump...

Yesterday offered an almost ideal news flow for global investors. The markets lit up with joy yesterday on the back of softer-than-expected inflation numbers from the UK and the US, as well as strong bank earnings. Yields fell, equities gain, the US softened, banks and Big Tech rallied – and the rally could continue today on the back of stronger-than-expected TSM results. But inflation remains wel...

Bitcoin's supply shock might be coming sooner rather than later, but we still expect some volatility going forward... 00:00 Intro 00:26 Preview 00:45 Viewer Questions 01:46 Bitcoin 04:31 Ethereum 05:39 Solana 06:26 Charts 08:46 Subscribe & Good bye #crypto #cryptonews #cryptotrading #swissquote _____ Learn the fundamentals of trading at your own pace with Swissquote's Education Center. Discover ou...

Sentiment was slightly better and the dollar was slightly lower on Tuesday on the back of a softer-than-expected PPI report from the US and on news that Donald Trump’s America First team would only ‘gradually’ increase tariffs on the rest of the world – if that’s any comfort. All eyes are on the US CPI data due today. The headline inflation in the US is expected to have ticked higher from 2.7% to...

The bond selloff continues. The global bond selloff is fueled by concerns over soaring debt levels leading to political turmoil and uncertainty in developed economies. This is compounded by major central banks' struggles to bring inflation down to their 2% target, amid various economic, political and geopolitical developments that could trigger a reversal in consumer prices worldwide. Consequently...

Surprise! The US economy added more than 250K new nonfarm jobs in December, some 90K more than expected, and the unemployment rate fell to 4.1%. If it’s any comfort for the Federal Reserve (Fed) doves: wages growth softened from 4% to 3.9% on a yearly basis. But all in all, the report looked very strong, and further hammered the dovish Federal Reserve (Fed) expectations. The US yields and the doll...

The selloff in British gilts and the pound slowed yesterday after Rachel Reeves compromised on her spending plans but the pound, as other major currencies, remain under a decent selling pressure into the US jobs data due later today. Before the announcement of the US official jobs data, activity on Fed funds futures suggests that the Fed’s next rate cut should arrive in May – with around a 53% cha...

A rough start for Bitcoin in the new year. But while the ETF flows are going up and down we're focusing on what's going to happen this week in the world cryptos 00:00 Intro 00:26 New Years 00:56 Preview 01:17 Bitcoin 04:00 Solana, Ethereum, Base 05:07 Ripple 06:22 Bitcoin Chart 07:06 Ethereum Chart 07:42 Solana Chart 08:22 Ripple Chart 09:10 Subscribe & Good bye #crypto #cryptonews #cryptotrading...

The selloff in US treasuries continued yesterday over concerns that Donald Trump’s presidency would boost spending and inflation in the US, and make the Federal Reserve’s (Fed) job of bringing inflation back to the 2% target more difficult. The selloff slowed after weaker-than-expected ADP report. Across the Atlantic, The 10-year gilt yield advanced to the highest level since 2008 yesterday and br...

Good news was bad news yesterday and they even wiped out the optimism that Nvidia initially created around AI with the announcement of new products. The US released a set of higher-than-expected ISM data, suggesting that non-manufacturing activity was better than expected in December – in contradiction to the S&P’s PMI data released a day before. But what really dampened the market mood was that p...

Early year worries that the AI rally would fizzle out were rapidly wiped out at the start of this week by several news, including Microsoft’s announcement to be willing to spend $80bn on data centers – which pushed the stock up to 1.4% yesterday and Foxconn’s announcement of a 42% surge in its December sales thanks to AI-driven demand. But mood beyond tech was murkier. The Dow Jones for example wa...

Here we are, the last day and the last trading day of the year. It’s now been about two years that ChatGPT was launched and it’s been two years that the AI buzz pushed some US Big Tech companies to ... the sky, really. The consensus is that 2025 should be a good year, that the easing central bank policies and falling yields should help the US Big Tech rally to further broaden toward the non-tech p...