THELOGICALINDIAN - Theres an old aphorism in the banking markets Sell in May and Go Away
Of course, this doesn’t necessarily beggarly that stocks will drop, it’s aloof a adage that arose over time forth with the seasons. During the summer months and as the acclimate heats up, animation tends to die down, so it ability be a acceptable abstraction to circle your investments about this time.
With several banal markets on or about their best highs and the US abridgement heating up at a accelerated pace, now is absolutely a abundant time for a portfolio checkup. Next Tuesday, we’ll host an absolute webcast for eToro platinum associates area we altercate what to watch out for.
eToro, Senior Market Analyst
Today’s Highlights
Trade Deal afore Fed
Google Down Apple on Deck
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Please note: All data, abstracts & graphs are accurate as of April 30th. All trading carries risk. Only accident basic you can allow to lose.
Traditional Markets
Trade talks amid the US and China are into their final laps or so says US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. Accommodation time is abutting but we still accept little adumbration of what the accommodation may be. As Steven has stated…
Perhaps they’ll alike be able to assignment article out afore the Fed affair tomorrow evening, which would absolutely be ideal timing for us traders.
Earnings Update
Alphabet balance flopped yesterday. Looks like Google and YouTube are absolutely affairs beneath ads. Wait, no they’re not. They’re affairs added ads, aloof beneath added than before.
Revenue from advertisements grew by 15% in the aboriginal division of the year, their slowest advance in a while.
Earnings per share, revenue, and abounding added key metrics fell abbreviate of analyst expectations and GOOG shares are accepted to bead about 7% at the aperture bell.
No burden Apple.
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Crypto markets are still on alert afterward aftermost week’s Tether debacle.
What I’m watching at the moment is the bitfinex exceptional that’s opened up and still persists this morning. At the time of this writing, the price of Bitcoin is about $325 college on bitfinex than it is in the blow of the market.
This gap is a bright archetype of what I’ve been adage about Tether for months. Any array of abrasion in aplomb in USDT is added acceptable to advance the amount of Bitcoin up, rather than down. As investors advertise the abiding bread they’re added acceptable to buy added cryptos.
Still, the amount of Tether charcoal appreciably stable. What’s alike added absurd is that it seems like this absolute adventure has absolutely fabricated added stablecoins added abiding as well.
Here we can see the four better abiding bill by bazaar cap.
We can see the bright bazaar acknowledgment on April 26th, which was that they all fell except for Paxos (yellow). Since again Tether has been trading at about 99 cents but at the time of this writing, they’re all absolutely $1, except Paxos, which is $1.015.
One trader, talking to the Wall Street Journal put it best back he said: “the bazaar aloof doesn’t care.”
Funny enough, one affair the bazaar ability affliction about are Musk Tweets. The tech mogul Elon Musk put out a distinct chat cheep aftermost night, which led to an absolute chat about crypto adoption.
Now, we can’t say definitively that it was Elon’s cheep that confused the market, but we can see that the amount of Ether rose acutely as the association bound RTed and commented.
The time of the cheep is in the amethyst circle.
As always, abounding acknowledgment for account and to all of you sending in your excellent questions, comments, and feedback. Let’s accept a absurd day.
Best regards,
Mati Greenspan
Senior Market Analyst
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