Morning Briefing

Yardeni Research’s flagship offering.

A daily deep dive into the market news, movement, and indicators.

Banks, Defense & AI Creep

Executive Summary: Two regional banks’ Q1 earnings reports highlighted the drag higher interest rates are having on results and showed that office building real estate loan defaults may be manageable. Zions and Truist managements struck some optimistic notes about the

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Copper, Oil, Earnings & Australia

Executive Summary: We often call copper “the metal with the PhD in Economics,” because its price rises and falls in step with the strength/weakness of the global economy. So why is Dr. Copper suddenly acting like the global economy

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Matters Of Interest

Executive Summary: It’s widely believed that high interest rates act as brakes on economic activity. But do they? Today, we re-examine our fringe view that perhaps the economy is so strong because of high interest rates, not despite them.

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QuickTakes

The most concise analysis of the key variables driving the global economy and financial markets.

Short-form takes on current market events.

Triple Whammy

Today started out with a triple whammy for the stock market. Meta took it on the chin, the GDP report was stagflationary, and the bond yield rose to a five-month high: (1) Meta. Yesterday afternoon after the stock market close,

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Long Face

A horse walks into a bar. The bartender asks, “Why the long face?” In the stock market, there are more long faces recently: (1) The Investor Intelligence Bull-Bear Ratio fell for the third week to 2.15 this week after climbing

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