Housing market sentiment is still quite depressed from builders (blue) to consumers (orange); though former group has had a more durable move off recent cycle low

🚨This has not happened in the markets in at least 35 years! 🚨 The spread between the 2-year US government bond yields and Fed's interest rates FELL to -1.686%, the most in over 3 decades. Simply put, markets believe the US economy is in a recession.👇 globalmarketsinvestor.xyz/p/us-stocks-re…

Fed statement & Powell Presser Highlights:

Takeaways from Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s press conference: · It’s definitely a series of cuts, albeit a "recalibration," ahead: “We have in fact begun the cutting cycle now.” · The larger cut was mostly about risk management: “We don’t think we’re behind…. You can take this as

Donald Trump made another overture to the digital-asset community on Wednesday, treating supporters to burgers at a bar in New York and paying with Bitcoin trib.al/FpYS4Ef

🚨US CONSUMERS ARE PULLING BACK ON DINING OUT🚨 Restaurant Performance Index fell to the lowest level since 2021 and has contracted for the last 10 months. All components of the index have been in decline including same-store sales and customer traffic👇 globalmarketsinvestor.xyz/p/us-stocks-po…

A far-reaching proposal in Congress would create a new public alternative to private developers, in a bid to fill the immense affordable housing need trib.al/mx5aowD

China's Alibaba launches over 100 new open-source AI models, releases text-to-video generation tool cnbc.com/2024/09/19/ali…

ECB'S PANETTA: INTEREST RATES REDUCTION BY THE ECB COULD ACCELERATE IN THE NEXT MONTHS - ITALIAN NEWS AGENCY RADIOCOR.

"This was the best news I've heard from the Fed in years," says Wharton's Jeremy Siegel on the 50bps interest rate cut. "This is fantastic news for the market, and great news for the economy."

U.S. Aug Existing Home Sales 3.86M unit rate (consensus 3.90M), vs July 3.96M (prev 3.95M) - nar U.S. Aug Existing Home Sales -2.5% vs July +1.5% (prev +1.3%) - nar U.S. Aug inventory of homes for sale 1.35M units, 4.2 months' worth U.S. Aug national median home price for