Not Now, Bernard is a children’s story about parents who don’t pay attention and don’t notice their son has been gobbled up by a monster, which they duly allow into the house. One could make parallels with central banks and the monstrosity of negative rates. Last week a strange thing happened: Fed funds futures – the market’s best guess of […]

Stock futures hold gains, yield curve steepens Second straight disappointing payrolls number Move to fast-track Biden stimulus package drives sentiment Stocks are set for fresh record high opens on Wall Street and a 5th straight day of gains – something we haven’t seen since August. A soft jobs report has done little to upset the […]

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Natural gas prices rose at the start of the week on higher European pricing, but gains could be capped by expected warmer-than-normal weather for the US. Unlike European natural gas contracts, there was no significant impact on US Henry Hub prices from the situation in Russia/Ukraine.

This afternoon’s US non-farm payrolls report was even more closely watched than usual. It is common for traders to get twitchy ahead of arguably the most important monthly data release on the economic calendar, but this was different. Markets are betting that the US Federal Reserve will cut interest rates when it meets again at […]