Key Highlights: Modern market infrastructure relies on tiered circuit breakers established after historic selloffs, designed to halt cash equities when the S&P 500 drops 7%, 13%, and 20%. Mounting macro pressures—surging energy costs, multi-month highs on the VIX volatility index, rising Treasury yields, and an estimated $1.9 trillion loss in tech shares—are triggering concerns of ...
Key Highlights: The Cboe Volatility Index (VIX) surged 21.5% to reach 19.99 on Friday, marking its steepest single-day gain since June 5. Equity markets declined as the S&P 500 fell 1.09%, weighed down by intensifying concerns surrounding artificial intelligence valuations and geopolitical headwinds. Bitcoin exhibited steady to choppy price action near $81,030.77 over the weekend, ...
Key Highlights: Bitcoin’s annualized volatility dropped to 43% over the past year, making it less volatile than 19% of the individual stocks in the S&P 500 index. Grayscale’s head of research, Zach Pandl, noted that deeper liquidity, institutional adoption, and regulated venues have significantly compressed the digital asset’s price swings. Following historic drawdown patterns, market ...
Key Highlights: Timmer’s updated model allocates 60% of a portfolio to global equities, 20% to bonds and 20% to diversified alternative assets. The alternative-assets allocation includes gold, commodities, cash, Bitcoin, REITs and managed futures. Timmer said Bitcoin’s correlation with the S&P 500 is approximately 30%, while it has no correlation with U.S. Treasury bonds. Timmer ...
Key Highlights The U.S. 10-year Treasury yield briefly touched 5.2% on Thursday before settling at 5.163%, driven by Middle East conflict pushing oil and diesel prices higher and complicating the global inflation outlook. The ICE BofA MOVE Index ($MOVE) shows bond traders are paying significantly more for interest-rate volatility protection despite the S&P 500 rising ...
Bloomberg Intelligence senior commodities strategist Mike McGlone has warned that elevated equity valuations and expectations of further Federal Reserve interest rate hikes are generating strong sell signals for Bitcoin. Bitcoin’s Risk-Adjusted Returns Under Scrutiny McGlone noted that Bitcoin’s performance over the past five years has roughly matched the S&P 500 index, but with approximately three ...
Key Economic Data and Earnings Set to Drive Markets as Inflation Concerns Resurface Investors face a packed economic calendar this week with critical inflation readings, consumer sentiment data, and notable earnings reports poised to test market resilience amid renewed concerns over energy prices and monetary policy trajectory. Inflation and Labor Metrics Take Center Stage The ...
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