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Wednesday Weekly Grain Seasonal Review 4.20.22
Apr 20, 2022
Each Wednesday this article will be updated with the current seasonal study using CQG’s Seasonal analysis applied to the Soybean, Wheat and Corn markets. You can download the CQG pac providing the studies and charts here. In addition, the... more
What's New in CQG One & CQG Desktop Version 7.3
Apr 19, 2022
Excell with Options: Leveraging exposure to JPY and MXN with FX options
Apr 19, 2022
As volatility levels fluctuate in the FX markets, Rich reviews two strategies in different currencies:
JPY/USD ratio spread for volatility to remain elevated MXN/USD call vs. put spread for volatility to pick up from a low... more
Assessing Monetary Policy Through The Taylor Rule
Apr 18, 2022
AT A GLANCE
Where rates go once the Federal Reserve reaches a point of neutral policy will be a key point for the jobs-inflation trade-off The Taylor Rule today, and for some time in the past, has been suggesting the Fed needs to start... more
How Rising Rates Could Influence Tech Earnings
Apr 18, 2022
AT A GLANCE
Rising rates tend to hurt growth stocks, but across the last five rate hike cycles, the Nasdaq median gain was nearly 27% Inflation and supply chain constraints will continue to be a theme, and earnings forecasts may be muted as... more
Energy Market Summary April 17, 2022
Apr 18, 2022
Petroleum prices increased for the first week in three and second in six in a holiday shortened week. Prices surged
despite a sizable Crude release from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve as well as relaxed ethanol restrictions for the
... more
Wednesday Weekly Grain Seasonal Review 4.13.22
Apr 13, 2022
Each Wednesday this article will be updated with the current seasonal study using CQG’s Seasonal analysis applied to the Soybean, Wheat and Corn markets. You can download the CQG pac providing the studies and charts here.
Seasonal analysis... more
Energy Market Summary: April 10, 2022
Apr 11, 2022
Petroleum prices fell for a second consecutive week and fourth in five, driven primarily by details of a release of more than 180 MB from the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve that will be done in conjunction with the IEA that will release an... more
Notes From Underground: Time to Escalate and Deescalate the Fed and Putin?
Apr 11, 2022
There was an article in Foreign Affairs this week by Graham Allison, the dean of American political scientists, titled, “Putin’s Doomsday Threat: How to Prevent a Repeat of the Cuban Missile Crisis in Ukraine.” The piece raises an important... more
Crude Oil: Cause or Effect of Inflation?
Apr 08, 2022
AT A GLANCE
Crude oil has averaged a 16.06% rise in price in the six months following the start of each of the Fed’s last six rate hike cycles In the first 10 days following the Fed’s March announcement of a 25 bps rate hike, WTI front month... more