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What to expect and how to trade Nvidia’s upcoming results from a fundamental and technical perspective.

Despite the recent blockbuster US job report paving the way for more hawkishness, Fed Chair Jerome Powell continued to feed markets with a somewhat dovish rhetoric yesterday.

The Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) is a technical indicator which simply measures the relationship of exponential moving averages (EMA).

The RBA raised the official cash rate by 25bp from 3.10% to 3.35%.

A quiet US economic calendar overnight saw major US indices heading lower for the second straight session, as sentiments continue to struggle with the recent blowout jobs report.

Does the BP share price dip represent a buying opportunity ahead of Q4 results?

After the excitement of last week, things calm down somewhat, but we still have the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) meeting, plus Chinese consumer price index (CPI) and UK gross domestic product (GDP). Meanwhile, after the big tech earnings of last week, which were a distinctly mixed bag, this week we have numbers from BP, British American Tobacco, Disney and Uber.

US equity indices managed to find their way higher in the aftermath of the Fed meeting, but were challenged by upside surprises in the US labour market and services sector activities to end last week.

Please see the expected dividend adjustment figures for a number of our major indices for the week commencing 6th January 2023. These are projected dividends and likely to change. IG cannot be held responsible for any changes made.

The three local banks are set to report their Q4 2022 earnings in February 2023, with DBS leading the pack.

Uber is scheduled to report its fourth quarter (Q4) earnings after the market closes on Wednesday, the 8th of February, 2023.

Friday’s US jobs report could bring further downside for payrolls, with average earnings also expected to decline

@tradinglounge shares their view on strong finish for US markets and market drivers in January 2023.

Hawkish reaffirmations from the Fed were met with rising doubts from the markets, as the US dollar index reacted to softer rate hike bets with a break below the 101.30 level.

With the FOMC meeting underway, the release of US economic data overnight has supported market hopes of potentially seeing the Fed easing up on its rate hike path.

Meta will announce the company's Q4 and FY 2022 financial results after the market close on 1 February 2023. As Meta has transformed to a speculative turnaround bet, is it time to pay for Mark Zuckerberg’s expensive dream?

The Federal Reserve look likely to raise rates by 25-basis points as markets seek to gauge where the terminal rate is and when we can expect a dovish pivot

The lead-up to the FOMC meeting has driven some de-risking to start the week, with US equity indices closing sharply lower while the 7.7% surge in VIX points to increased hedging activities.

What to expect and how to trade GSK’s upcoming results

It is an action-packed week. A trio of major central banks issue rate decisions, plus we have the monthly non-farm payrolls report, Chinese PMI figures and initial Q4 GDP readings for Germany and the eurozone. As if that was not enough, the heavyweight tech stocks (though less heavyweight since the 2022 declines) of Apple, Amazon and Alphabet, plus Meta, also report earnings figures, along with other major firms in the US. This week will be a vital test for markets that have been broadly risk-on since the beginning of the year.

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Please see the expected dividend adjustment figures for a number of our major indices for the week commencing 30th January 2023. These are projected dividends and likely to change. IG cannot be held responsible for any changes made.

The Hang Seng (Hong Kong) index has traded to its best levels since April 2022, following the Lunar New Year Holiday.

The gold price has increased more than 8% in 2023 to a nine-month-high at $1937. What are the key drivers behind the rising appetite for precious metals?

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