CI Newsletter

Issue 147 Assets Covered: USD, Copper Futures (HG1), Copper (LME), Corn Futures (C1), Brent Crude Oil Futures (B10), WTI Crude Futures   Not a subscriber yet? Sign up to the CI Newsletter here.     What a year! 2021 is off to a rip-roaring start. Year to date (YTD), we’ve seen some dramatic price action – […]

Issue 146 Assets Covered: WTI, Natural Gas, VIX   ❗️Not a subscriber yet? Sign up to the CI Newsletter here.❗️     2020. Wow. We were exhausted by it in May and it just kept going. We’ve all been counting down to 2021. Like most non-masochists, we can’t wait for it to be over.   […]

Issue 145 Assets Covered: USD, EUR, WTI ❗️Not a subscriber yet? Sign up to the CI Newsletter here.❗️   This week, markets saw news of the 2nd US-based vaccine for Covid 19. The results are encouraging, and markets have welcomed the news. The results of these two announcements are so exciting, in fact, that the […]

❗️Not a subscriber yet? Sign up to the CI Newsletter here.❗️   As we await the results of the US election, we’re going a bit off script this week to run through a few scenarios for markets with a Trump or Biden administration. As much as possible, we’ll work to remove our own political bias, […]

Issue 143 Assets Covered: ICE USD Index Futures (DX1), EUR/USD Rate, Russel 2000 Index (RTY), United States Dow Jones Stock Market Index (INDU) ❗️Not a subscriber yet? Sign up to the CI Newsletter here.❗️     Markets have been a bit tentative in October. After a 6% decline in September, the S&P 500 is up […]

Issue 142 Assets Covered: COMEX Copper Futures, Copper (LME), USS&P 500 Stock Market Index, Germany DAX 30 Stock Market Index, ICE USD Index Futures, EUR/USD ❗️Not a subscriber yet? Sign up to the CI Newsletter here.❗️       2020 has wreaked havoc on economies globally. GDP plunged by double digits in most places. China was hit […]

Issue 141 Assets Covered: S&P 500 Futures, BTC/USD rate, Bitcoin, ETH/USD rate, Etherium, Shanghai Stock Exchange Composition Index   Right now, the result of the US presidential election is anybody’s guess. Six weeks is a long time in politics. We’re not political forecasters, so we won’t bore or annoy you with our election prediction (whew). […]

Issue 140 ❗️Not a subscriber yet? Sign up to the CI Newsletter here.❗️     As we enter the final stretch of 2020 (finally!), it’s time to prepare for 2021.   We’re all hoping for a little less drama in 2021, but the near-term future looks mixed. Although stock markets are near all-time highs, corporate […]

Issue 139 Assets Covered: WTI crude oil futures, NYMEX gasoline futures, NYMEX natural gas futures   The energy sector has had a rough year. Remember when WTI crude traded above $63 in early January? Good times. Just a few months later, WTI’s breathtaking fall to -$37.63 (that’s negative) underscored just how much pain markets felt […]

Issue 138 Assets Covered: Soybean Futures Continuous Contract, CBOT Corn Futures Countries Covered: China     This summer has seen dramatic storms in China with the worst flooding in more than 20 years. Cropland the size of the US state of West Virginia flooded with an estimated $21bn of economic damage.   40,000 buildings collapsed. […]