Category: Market updates by Fabrizio
For those of you who read me regularly, you all know my passion for sports and financial markets. For sure, I would have preferred to make a living from my first passion, but the bar is certainly less high in the second. Anyway, I can’t complain because there are many similarities between the two, which […]
Against all expectations, the Cagliari Calcio was able to draw with Inter yesterday evening and take home a valuable point from their trip to Milan in the race to stay in Serie A. Speaking about surprising result, valuable stuff and a golden sun symbol of light and life for my favorite soccer team, gold seems […]
We got two positive surprises lately. The first one we almost got used to it, the US economy doesn’t show any signs of landing since the US ISM manufacturing rebounded above 50 in March and the non-farm payrolls (NFP) increased again more than expected last month as they rose +303k vs. +215k expected and +270k […]
March Madness… It has to be said that the term is certainly not overused this year! A prestigious “Mannshaft” victory against France (we were no longer used to seeing Germany win, whether in sport or economics), the Prancing Horse overtaking again its rivals with an unexpected double for Ferrari at the F1 Australian Grand Prix, […]
Let’s speak about losers today… I will directly skip the mortifying defeat of Cagliari Calcio against Monza this week-end (superb free-kick from Daniel Madini, the son of Paolo and grand-son of Cesare) or the elimination of Inter Milan from the Champion’s league, to focus on the sector investors love to hate, or rather have learned […]
It took 34 years, 2 months and 20 something days… but it finally made it. The Japan Nikkei 225 stock index posted indeed a new all-time high (ATH) last week, snapping symbolically one of the longest journeys through the disdain of global investors, but also breaking somewhat off my favorite provocative question to investors looking […]
It begins with a “C”, it is struggling and it is at the bottom of the performances ranking… Have you got it? I am referring to China of course! While billions of people in China and around the world are celebrating the beginning of a new Lunar year, there is still little to celebrate about […]
At first glance, there’s no doubt about it: the US jobs report for January, released on Friday, showed more than a resilient US labor market. Nonfarm payrolls increased 353K, largely beating expectations (185k). Furthermore, prior two months readings were revised by a total of +126k, bucking the recent trend of downward revisions. Last but not […]
As we said in French “Après la pluie, le beau temps”… So, after the sadness and the tears related to the loss and mourning of Gigi Riva (Italy’s soccer record goal scorer on top of a legendary and faithful player of the Cagliari Calcio), Italian sport’s fans enjoyed and celebrated the great historical achievement of […]
In a recent press release, the SNB published a preliminary version of its accounts for 2023. After losing CHF 132bn in 2022, it lost again circa CHF 3bn last year. To put these losses in perspective, they represent more than 15% of Swiss GDP and almost 4 times the AuM of Compenswiss (Swiss retirement compensation […]
Last week, I shared with you my first 5 out of 10 predictions that could shape financial markets and portfolio returns this year. As we enter 2024 -and as a reminder-, our central macro scenario may be summed up as “more of the same – but better” … With resilient growth, inflation normalization & rate […]
