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Newmont Risk, Fed Path to Arrogance

Market Rundown Wed. Jan. 17 2024

Housekeeping: Good Morning.

4 things: Newmont, Fed Behavior, Goldman’s Behavior, Biden’s new Problem1


Contents

  1. Yesterday’s Activity

  2. Today’s Prices

  3. Today’s Data

  4. Markets/Metals Commentary

  5. Attached- Newmont observations

Markets:

Commodities, Stocks, Precious Metals, Bonds, BTC, FX

Yesterday’s Activity:

Fed's Waller kills rate cuts, Earnings Disappoint right after QT leak The NY Fed Manufacturing survey for January saw a huge collapse

  • US equities retreated on Tuesday amid a slew of corporate earnings results.

  • Energy (-2.40%) and materials (-1.19%) lagged the broader market indices, while technology (+0.39%) and consumer discretionary (-0.20%) outperformed.

  • The Nasdaq lost 0.19%, while the "FAAMG" stocks mostly fell:

Don’t fooled.. the Fed is manipulating things.. this is not weakness.. it is strength. When it becomes arrogance, then you act against them

Overnight Prices:

Waller, Recession, Earnings drops, ME Tensions

Today’s Data:

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 17
  • 8:30 am Import price index Dec. -0.4%

  • 8:30 am Import price index minus fuel Dec. 0.2%

  • 8:30 am U.S. retail sales Dec. 0.3%

  • 8:30 am Retail sales minus autos Dec. 0.2%

  • 9:15 am Industrial production Dec. 0.2%

  • 9:15 am Capacity utilization Dec. 78.8%

  • 2:00 pm Fed Beige Book

Total Calendar2

News: via NewSquawk

NOTABLE US HEADLINES

US Senate voted 68-13 to advance the stopgap funding bill through the first procedural hurdle in an effort to avert a shutdown

MIDDLE EAST

  • US Central Command said the US conducted strikes in Yemen as Houthi attacks against international shipping continue

  • US President Biden's administration is expected to announce plans to designate Yemen's Houthi rebel group as a global terrorist organisation

OTHER

  • China's Taiwan Affairs Office said Taiwan's election result cannot stop the trend towards reunification and China is willing to create the widest space for peaceful reunification,

Markets/Metals Commentary:

  • Newmont Earnings

  • Chart Comments

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