Insights
Market impact insights
- How Oil Shocks Affect Inflation, Rates, and Equities
How a sudden move in crude oil transmits into headline inflation, breakevens, central bank policy, equity sectors, and credit spreads.
- How Strait of Hormuz Tensions Affect Oil and Markets
How a Strait of Hormuz disruption transmits through oil prices, inflation expectations, rates, equities, credit, and geopolitical risk premia.
- How Fed Rate Cuts Affect Gold and Precious Metals
How Fed rate cuts transmit into gold via real yields, the dollar, and safe-haven flows - plus the equity and miner exposure that follows.
- How CPI Surprises Affect Bond Yields and Curves
How a CPI surprise repricing transmits into Treasury yields, the curve, breakevens, real yields, the dollar, and risk assets within minutes.
- How Tariffs Affect Inflation, Rates, and Equity Sectors
How tariffs transmit through importer costs, consumer prices, inflation expectations, central bank policy, FX, and equity sector dispersion.
- How Geopolitical Risk Affects Commodity Markets
How geopolitical risk premia get added to and removed from commodity prices - across oil, gas, gold, agriculture, and industrial metals.
- How Credit Spreads Affect Equity Markets
Why credit spreads lead equity drawdowns, how HY OAS and IG OAS transmit through risk assets, and the indicators that confirm a regime change.
- How USD Strength Affects Emerging Markets
How a stronger US dollar transmits through EM equities, debt, FX, commodity exporters, and dollar-funded balance sheets.
- How China Growth Affects Copper and Industrial Metals
Why China is the dominant driver of copper and industrial metals - through PMI, property, grid investment, and stimulus signals.
- How the VIX Affects Equity Markets and Positioning
What VIX levels and term structure reveal about equity risk, dealer gamma, vol-control flows, and the indicators that confirm regime shifts.