Marketscreener

The Market Screener

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Here's the audio version of the daily Wall Street column of Marketscreener, to take the temperature of financial markets every morning at the opening of the stock exchange. Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.

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Jul 10, 2026

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CPI Relief Sparks Wall Street Optimism 11.06.2025

The U.S. equity market is now responding with renewed optimism following the release of May's CPI data, which showed inflation trending below expectations. This surprising relief on the inflation front has pushed futures higher, easing some of the tension that had gripped markets earlier in the week. Previously weighed down by uncertainty surrounding the U.S.-China trade dynamic and the looming CP...

The Thin Edge of the Trade Knife 09.06.2025

As Wall Street flirts once again with record highs, the global economy holds its breath - not over inflation or job numbers, but over a pair of negotiating tables set up in London. The second round of U.S.-China trade talks is underway, and with them comes a cautious optimism that remains fragile. Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.

Wall Street's Balancing Act 06.06.2025

Wall Street is once again threading the needle between hope and hard data. With one eye on the Federal Reserve’s every utterance and the other distracted by Elon Musk’s latest political firestorm, investors are inching forward on a high wire strung taut with uncertainty. Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.

The Art of the Shrug 05.06.2025

As the market holds its breath ahead of Friday's non-farm payrolls report, investors are grappling with a question that increasingly defines the Trump economic era: how much turbulence can America's labor market withstand? Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.

Economic Stormclouds, Market Sunshine 04.06.2025

Investors remain buoyant despite economic uncertainties, finding renewed faith in artificial intelligence and the enduring strength of U.S. consumer spending. While political rhetoric and tariff escalations stir global unease, markets seem unfazed, drifting steadily upward on selective optimism. The disconnect between foreboding forecasts and market performance continues to grow, as traders hedge...

Wall Street Eyes Trump-Xi Call 03.06.2025

Wall Street entered the week with cautious optimism, buoyed by renewed hopes for progress on U.S.-China trade talks. But that optimism remains tempered by the lingering effects of Donald Trump's latest tariff threats, rising geopolitical risks, and mixed macroeconomic signals. Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.

A Springtime Riddle on Wall Street 02.06.2025

As spring bows out and the midpoint of 2025 appears on the horizon, a curious symmetry has taken hold in the global markets. Wall Street, traditionally the torchbearer of bullish optimism, finds itself treading water - flat for the year. Meanwhile, European bourses are surging ahead, with an 8% gain in 2025. It's a transatlantic role reversal worthy of attention, even if the next act of this econo...

Debt, Diplomacy, and a Silicon Savior 28.05.2025

Markets live and die by narratives, and this week’s tale is one of cautious optimism wrapped in geopolitical tension. As the S&P 500 surges on rumors of diplomatic detente and falling bond yields, investors pin their hopes on Nvidia to confirm that tech’s rebound is more than a mirage. Yet beneath the bounce lies a fragile reality - of strained global alliances, mounting debt, and a central ba...

Trump Pulls the Strings Again 27.05.2025

On Memorial Day weekend, while most Americans were grilling burgers or remembering the fallen, Donald Trump was resetting the thermostat on global trade tensions. Again. In a now-familiar pattern - provoke, threaten, retreat - the former president walked back his threat to slam the European Union with a 50% tariff on imports, opting instead for a July 9 deadline. Markets, weary but obedient, ralli...

Trump's Tariff Blitz Roils Markets, Targets EU and Apple 23.05.2025

Markets recoiled Friday morning after President Trump unveiled a dramatic new wave of tariffs, sending U.S. stock futures sharply lower ahead of the open. Dow futures dropped 1.43%, the S&P 500 fell 1.46%, and Nasdaq 100 futures plunged 1.73% - a stark reaction to an increasingly aggressive trade posture from the White House. Leading the charge, Trump announced a "straight” 50% tariff on all g...

Fiscal Reckoning 22.05.2025

There's an old Wall Street proverb that the market climbs a wall of worry. But what happens when that wall becomes a mountain of debt? On Thursday morning, U.S. stock futures limped upward, shrugging off a gut-wrenching midweek slump. This measured rebound comes on the heels of a seismic event: the House of Representatives' razor-thin passage of President Trump's sweeping tax-and-spending bill, a...

The Debt Hits the Fan 21.05.2025

The American economy is standing on a fiscal fault line, and the markets are beginning to feel the tremors. With Moody's downgrading the U.S. credit rating and Trump's colossal tax bill threatening to deepen the debt spiral, investors are reassessing what it means to trust the world’s largest economy. Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite for more information.

The Fragile Confidence Act 20.05.2025

In today’s markets, optimism wears thin and uncertainty takes center stage - futures dipped as the $36 trillion U.S. debt load cast a long shadow over investor sentiment. From Moody’s downgrade to the specter of shadow banking fragility, the forces now shaping Wall Street feel less like macroeconomic cycles and more like tremors beneath a fragile surface. And yet, the market continues its performa...

The United States of Deficit 19.05.2025

On Friday, Moody’s Investors Service tapped gently on the marble pedestal of American exceptionalism—and the sound rang out across trading floors and into the subconscious of an already jittery financial system. The United States was demoted from a pristine “Aaa” to a slightly more terrestrial “Aa1.” Not a fall from grace, exactly, but a reminder that even empires, in the end, carry ledgers. Hoste...

A Rally with Caveats 16.05.2025

Wall Street is ending the week on a high note, buoyed by a temporary U.S.-China tariff truce and softer-than-expected inflation data. Major indexes, led by a tech surge, regained momentum early in the week and are now poised for strong weekly gains, with the S&P 500 climbing back into positive territory for the year. Yet underneath the bullish tone lies a more complex economic picture. Fe...

When the Numbers Don’t Add Up 15.05.2025

A deluge of U.S. economic data hit Thursday morning, offering a confusing blend of soft retail sales, lukewarm hiring, and producer prices that fell hard - unless you zoom out. Markets shrugged, mostly, except where the numbers turned uncomfortably specific: core retail sales, the GDP-sensitive kind, declined when they were supposed to rise. Donald Trump offered something far more straightforward...

Inflation Cools, Trump Heats Up 14.05.2025

In a moment of cautious optimism, U.S. markets began the day with a muted rally, buoyed by cooling inflation and the ever-theatrical rhythms of Trump-era geopolitics. A softer-than-expected Consumer Price Index reading lent Wall Street a sense of temporary calm, while investors resumed their uneasy waltz with a familiar, if no less erratic, political narrative. Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomea...

Soft Data, Strong Moves 13.05.2025

Markets, like people, are creatures of mood. On Tuesday morning, they woke with a mix of apprehension and hope, scanning for signals - from inflation data, central bankers, and the choreography of global diplomacy. A cooler-than-expected consumer price report offered some relief, while news of a fragile trade truce with China sent stocks into celebratory overdrive, even as bond markets quietly rem...

Diplomacy Is the New Black 12.05.2025

Well, it finally happened: the world's two economic frenemies - America and China - have called a temporary timeout in their trade dispute. Both sides have agreed to ease off their tariff trigger fingers for 90 days. According to U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, neither side wants to “decouple” - which, in diplomatic speak, translates roughly to: "Look, we may fight like cats in a burla...

Eighty Percent and Falling 09.05.2025

In the latest chapter of America’s enduring trade drama with China, Donald Trump has floated an eyebrow-raising figure: eighty percent tariffs on Chinese goods. Posted with trademark bombast on Truth Social, the suggestion is less an economic policy than a warning shot - a symbolic escalation ahead of this weekend’s talks in Switzerland. While markets remained measured, the proposal underscores Tr...

London Calling: Markets Jump 08.05.2025

The Federal Reserve's decision to do nothing was, fittingly, a non-event. Markets barely blinked. Wall Street resumed its upward drift, undisturbed by the central bank's cautious stance. This morning, attention has shifted to fresh developments in global trade and politics: a potential softening of U.S. semiconductor export rules, a renewed Trump-era push to lower drug prices, and signs of a loomi...

About Doves and Deals 07.05.2025

On a Wednesday tinted with cautious optimism, equity markets woke to the rare scent of diplomacy. The promise of U.S.—China trade talks in the quiet halls of Switzerland sent a flutter through global markets—an early bloom of hope in a field still strewn with thorns. Meanwhile, all eyes remain on the Federal Reserve, whose task today is not to act, but to speak just carefully enough to keep both h...

Powell's Shadow Looms Over Nervous Markets 06.05.2025

Investors' eyes are fixed on the forthcoming words of Fed Chair Jerome Powell, with hopes that US interest rates will hold steady amidst strong corporate earnings and the shadow of an escalating trade war. The world watches as business leaders navigate through trade uncertainties and the legendary Warren Buffett steps down from his investment throne. Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/polit...

Trump's Policy Roulette Keeps Wall Street Guessing 24.04.2025

In the high-stakes game of Wall Street, investor confidence is teetering on the edge as trade policy unpredictability and a hodgepodge of corporate earnings cast shadows over the financial markets. The Trump administration's murky trade maneuvers and mixed signals on China tariffs, coupled with a fresh probe into truck imports and a tumultuous earnings season, are sending ripples of uncertainty th...

Trump's Latest Whiplash: Powell's Back in the Saddle as China Gets a Wink 23.04.2025

Donald Trump has once again performed his signature policy pirouette, retracting his threats to fire Fed Chair Jerome Powell and promising a more amicable approach to China on tariffs. This new diplomatic stance has sparked optimism for a potential trade agreement with China, sending futures on Wall Street and global markets into a cheerful ascent. Hosted by Audiomeans. Visit audiomeans.fr/politiq...

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