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Wall Street Washed in April Showers: Is a May Flower Rally Coming?

William Walsh
The question, the most important question on the minds of traders and investors is this: Do April showers bring May flowers? Because to mix a metaphor...

Fed Rate Cuts in 2024? Don't Hold Your Breath, But Here's What To Watch Now

William Walsh
The Producer Price Index complex, which measures inflation at the wholesale level, came in a tick better than expected Thursday morning. More on that ...

Risk Premium Squeeze: How Inflation Makes Stocks Less Attractive

William Walsh
Higher than expected inflation numbers turned buyers into sellers on Wednesday as the hopes and dreams of traders for a near-term rate cut were dashed...

Fed Rate Cuts on Hold? The Financial Animal Says We Told You So!

William Walsh
Sometimes, we think that the best job for us would have been as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. It seems to us that all these guys...

Good Jobs, Bad News? Markets Wait for Wednesday's Inflation Numbers

William Walsh
On Friday, the labor market complex came in well above expectations. The economy created 303,000 new jobs in March versus the 212,000 that Wall Street...

Stocks Up, Rates Up, Gold Up: Is There Room to Run in This Market Rally?

William Walsh
Stocks bounced on Friday, but volume was off, and markets finished with a loss for the week, which was only the fifth down week since this rally began...

Financial Animal: Debunking the Myths Behind Gold's Rally

William Walsh
Is gold a safe haven or a ticking time bomb? William Walsh of the Financial Animal Podcast debates the true meaning behind gold's record highs. Tune i...

Inflation Numbers Met Expectations, But Are Still Too High: Financial Animal

William Walsh
The inflation numbers came in on Friday and came in just about as expected. We’ll have more on that in a minute. But markets were closed, and we cou...

Bitcoin Soars, Stocks Stall: A Sign of Things to Come?

William Walsh
Stocks traded in a narrow range to finish mixed on Monday as volume falls again. Is it that traders are on the sidelines awaiting the PCE data due out...

Tech Gains, Dow Down, Bonds Up - But Was Anyone Really Watching?

William Walsh
Stocks finished mixed on Friday, but volume was very low, and we couldn’t help but get the feeling that traders took the day off, got out of town, a...

Ministry of Truth in Overdrive: Decoding the 21-Week Stock Rally

William Walsh
If this rally, now in its 21st week, which has seen the Standard and Poor’s 500 increase by almost 25%, is premised on the idea that inflation has b...

Is Inflation Really Under Control? William Walsh Raises Concerns

William Walsh
So, what are we to make of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve meeting that ended yesterday? Well, it seems obvious to us that the Fed went...

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