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Limit Up! 16th April 2025

Written by Ian Reynolds | Apr 16, 2025 12:10:04 AM

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Overnight

Canada CPI March 2025

The recent pickup of Canadian CPI has unsurprisingly faded as consumers close their wallets.

Germany ZEW Current Conditions April

Even though German Industrial Production continues to show recovery the forward looking indicators are grim reading.

A pretty quiet day for markets as the USD and 10 year treasury yield take all the attention. Scott Bessent more in the media than Trump as markets need to be kept happy.

World Equity Markets

Breaking

Investors are most bearish in 30 years, BofA survey finds [investing.com]

Equities

The darling of tech stocks, NVIDIA, is now in a downtrend, lower lows and lower highs. I can't see what good news it can produce now that isn't priced in.

NVIDIA Daily

Bitcoin

Maybe retest of the break. Certainly there is no upward momentum currently.

BITCOIN / USD Daily

Commodities

Classic bear flag forming for oil. May take a few weeks before we get the next leg down.

SPOT BRENT Daily

Ghana bans foreigners from trading in its gold market to boost revenue [BBC]

China Offers Banks Extra Gold Import Quotas as Investors Flock [Bloomberg]

Bonds

Crazy JGB chart. The next BoJ meeting will be key in the next direction. Either CPI collapses or rates go higher. 4 weeks ago option B was the only choice but now...

Japan 10 Year Government Bond Yield Daily

Foreign Exchange

The UK narrative has really changed in the last month or two. A better economy with better economic policy and a better relationship with Trump, than other countries. And the cable trade is back on course.

GBP / USD Daily

Interesting

China, Vietnam support multilateral trade regime amid U.S. tariff pressure [Reuters] 

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Tariffs, Bonds and the Next Fed Chair

Economic Indicators Today