Economic Preview: Key Data Releases (week of 01Jun2026) The following sections outline key macroeconomic forecasts and indicators spanning manufacturing, services, labor markets, and energy sectors, with particular emphasis on metrics influencing upcoming Federal Reserve monetary policy decisions. 1. Manufacturing Sector Indicators S&P Global Manufacturing PMI (May): The forecast is projected at 55.3, indicating continued expansion and growth within global manufacturing. ISM Manufacturing PMI (May): The index is forecasted at 53.3, signalling anticipated growth within the domestic American manufacturing sector. ISM Manufacturing Prices (May): A significant point of concern is the high forecast of 85.3. This elevated metric indicates rising producer costs, which are highly likely to be

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For the whole of last week, there were a handful of US economic reports out. I half suspect that they did not make any meaningful impact on the US market. This is because, even the increasing negative CPI inflation report, hardly dented the US market, the week before when it was released. Click here ! for more details, give a “Like” or “Repost” ok. Thanks. Reports out last week’s include: 19 May 2026 - Pending Home Sales. 20 May 2025 - Minutes of Fed’s FOMC  21 May 2026 - US jobless claims. 21 May 2026 - S&P Flash US services PMI. 21 May 2026 - S&P Flash US manufacturing PMI 22 May 2026 - US Leading Economic Indicators (LEI). 22 May 2026 - US Consumer Sentiments (Final) for May 2026 Pending Home Sales. Ac

My Investing Muse (25May2026) Layoffs, closures and Delinquencies Bosch is slashing 22,000 jobs in Germany and slowly abandoning its own homeland just to survive. Germany lost 486,000 jobs in just 3 months, mostly in industry. The “economic miracle” is dying in real time. - X user Global Dissident Goldman Sachs warned that AI could impact 300 million jobs globally. Many laughed it off. Now, companies are cutting thousands of roles while openly blaming AI, even as they post record profits. Meta just laid off 8,000 people while pouring over $100B into AI this year alone. And we’re still in the 1st inning. - Source: Goldman Sachs Meta cut 8,000 people today. A survivor wrote about a teammate who slept 4 hours a night for months. Commits at 3am. Commits at 6am. IC4. Strong reviews. No PIP. Cut

Market Outlook of S&P500 (25May2026) Technical Analysis Overview MACD Indicator The Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) indicator for the S&P 500 has completed a top crossover and has started a downtrend. Chaikin Money Flow The Chaikin Money Flow (CMF) stands at 0.25, indicating there is more buying momentum than selling pressure in the market. Moving Averages Examining the moving averages, the most recent price action shows the last candlestick has been above the 50-day moving average (MA50) and the 200-day moving average (MA200). This pattern indicates a bullish shift in both the short and long term. Notably, both the MA50 and MA200 lines have begun to trend upwards, which indicates a bullish outlook in both the short and long term. Exponential Moving Averages The e

News and my thoughts from the past week (25May2026) Starbucks is retiring its AI inventory system across North America after the tool reportedly miscounted and mislabeled store inventory. - X user Unusual Whales @TigerStars $Vanguard S&P 500 ETF(VOO)$ $Cboe Volatility Index(VIX)$

Last week (week ending 24 Apr 2026), there weren’t significant US economic reports to leave a mark on the US market. As a result, US listed companies quarterly earnings hogged the limelight, notably $Tesla Motors(TSLA)$ and $Intel(INTC)$. Still, the reports out last week included: Tue, 21 Apr 2026 - US retail sales for March 2026. Thu, 23 Apr 2026 - US jobless claims - weekly and continuing. Thu, 23 Apr 2026 - S&P Flash US services & manufacturing PMI for April 2026 (preliminary). Fri, 24 Apr 2026 - Consumer sentiments (final) for April 2026. US Retail sales. US Census Bureau’s Retail sales report for March 2026, released on 21 Apr 2026, provides a complex snapshot of a consumer base that is resil

The Market is Bleeding. Premiums Are Not. Let me share what I've been doing this week. SPY down almost 10% from ATH. VIX spiked past 30. Iran war headlines dropping every day, oil at $107, and the fear is real — I get it, it's been a rough few weeks for a lot of people. But here's the thing. If you've been running a wheel strategy through all this, the premium collection has been quietly doing its job in the background. Higher VIX means fatter premiums. More fear means more people paying up for protection. And all of that flows to the seller. The market is bleeding. The premiums are not. You don't need to call the direction perfectly. You just need a strategy that keeps paying you while you wait for the dust to settle. That's the whole idea behind the wheel — and this kind of environment i

Economic Preview: Key Data Releases (week of 09Mar2026) Housing Market Data Existing home sales data for February will be released this week. The forecast stands at 3.9 million units. This figure serves as a good reference for evaluating the health and trends within the home real estate market. Inflation Reports, PCE Data and the Federal Reserve’s Perspective The Consumer Price Index (CPI) data, along with the Core CPI, will be published in the coming week. The forecast for month-on-month CPI growth is 0.2% for February. If the actual CPI growth deviates from this forecast, increased volatility can be expected in the financial markets. The release of the Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) data for January is scheduled for this week. As the Federal Reserve's preferred inflation gauge,

My Investing Muse Layoffs, closures and Delinquencies Americans are leaving the U.S. in record numbers, drawn by a quality of life made easily affordable by the U.S.’s enviable salaries. - WSJ Meta layoffs could reportedly impact around 16,000 employees - MacroEdge Amazon made 2,847 engineers spend 8 months documenting every code pattern, every debugging workflow, every optimisation trick they'd learned over the years. Then fed it all to AI. Then, they fired them. No one saw it coming. The entire thing was disguised as something every senior engineer already does. Knowledge transfer. Best practices. Internal documentation. They were writing their own replacement manual. And the same playbook is running at every major tech company right now. - X user Srishti TotalEnergies: production shutti

The escalation of US-Iran conflict and subsequent spike in oil prices have been, the primary causes for US market's volatility last week. (see below) For week ending 06 Mar 2026: Dow: -2.87% (-1,403.28 to 47,501.55). Its biggest decline since early April 2025. S&P 500: -2.06% (-141.60 to 6,740.02). Its biggest weekly percentage loss since mid-October 2025. Nasdaq: -1.59% (-361.18 to 22,387.68). Objectively speaking, there were other underlying economic and technical factors that ‘aided’ to exacerbate the decline. (see below) Other Reports. Below were US economic reports for last week: (1) Jobless Claims. (a) Weekly claims. For week ending 28 Feb 2026, US weekly jobless claims came in ‘flat’ at 213,000 vs market consensus of 215,000 vs previous week claims of 213,000. (see below) Despit

Comment, Retweet & Win Tiger Coins! [Call][USD][USD] Hey traders! Today’s X (Twitter) feed is blowing up with game-changing charts—from the Fed’s dot plot shift to oil’s historic rally and the yen’s collapse. We’ve rounded up the TOP 10 must-see financial charts, with clear explanations to help you decode market trends. Join the discussion, share your take, and earn easy Tiger Coins! Top 10 Must-See Financial Charts on X (Twitter) Today Fed Dot Plot Distribution Change (Source: @MacroMicroMe) Chart Explanation: Comparing the December 2025 and March 2026 dot plots, most officials have shifted from 2 rate cuts to just 1. Oil Price Monthly Gain (Source: @GoodReturns) Chart Explanation: Brent crude has surged 43.6% in March, jumping from $77 to $110—a new high for the biggest monthly gain

The current spike in the VIX to its highest level since early 2025 (hitting an intraday high of 27.30 on March 3) is a classic example of "event-driven" volatility rather than a fundamental collapse of the bull market. Historically, a VIX above 25 signals elevated stress, but the context of this move suggests it is currently more of a geopolitical hedge than the start of a multi-year bear market. The Macro Context (March 2026) The primary driver is the escalating conflict in the Middle East, specifically involving U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran. This has created a specific "Volatility Shock" characterized by: Oil & Energy Sensitivity: WTI Crude has surged above $75–$77/bbl. This raises "cost-push" inflation fears, which complicates the Federal Reserve’s path for rate cuts later this year

🐶📉 Options Puppy Weekly: Is a Sell-Off Coming After the S&P 500 Failed 6800? Markets love drama. And this week the stage is full: missiles in the Middle East, oil prices jumping, inflation whispers returning, and traders wondering whether the rally just ran out of fuel. The Options Puppy doesn’t panic though. 🐶 Let’s sniff through the macro bones and see what might happen next week. ⸻ 🛢️🔥 Middle East Tension: The Oil Shock Bone The biggest headline shaking markets right now is the escalating conflict involving the US, Israel, and Iran. The scale of attacks and retaliation surprised many investors, and the market’s first reaction was simple: oil spiked. Why? Because roughly 25–30% of global oil trade passes through the Strait of Hormuz. If that route is disrupted, the world suddenly wor

My Investing Muse Layoffs, closures and Delinquencies U.S. layoffs are now at numbers worse than the 2008 Great Financial Crisis. - X user The Patriotic Blonde South Korean battery maker SK On lays off 958 US employees - Reuters 92,000 people just lost their jobs in one month in The US. Just a regular Tuesday in 2026. And Anthropic released a report this morning saying the jobs AI can't kill are plumbers, farmers, and electricians. Your office job is not safe. The economy is confirming what AI companies already told you. The guy who learned to fix pipes in 6 months has more job security than you. - X user Tuki Morgan Stanley laying off 2,500 employees across all divisions amid economic challenges - MacroEdge Amazon cuts jobs in robotics division - MacroEdge Kuehne+Nagel to layoff 2,000 wor