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#Apple releases Q4 #earnings this week 📱 All eyes on initial demand of #iPhone14 💵 Will Pro help lift average prices? 🇨🇳 Some analysts warn #China could disappoint ⏩ Will it accelerate #buybacks? 📈 $AAPL up for 4 straight sessions Read on 👇 ms.spr.ly/6010dZsEs

Even if the weather has brought some relief to the German economy, the gradual sliding into recession continues, says Carsten Brzeski. But – Germany’s most prominent leading indicator just sent signals that things are – at least – not getting worse. think.ing.com/snaps/german-i…

💶#EUR - Edging towards parity again ... but will anyone be brave enough to take that on a day before the ECB? 🤔

💶 #EURUSD - bit geeky but it's a fraction away from the bottom of the cloud on the daily chart ($1.00049). It's had about 4 goes in as many months at piercing it - but to no avail, logically. 🤓

With most of the political chaos over, the pound just had its best month in a year. But the consensus is that it ain't gonna last reuters.com/world/uk/storm…

💵 #DXY - After all my angst over hunting down "Powell's favourite curve" before it inverted, y'day's FOMC/press conference prevented that. It's widened 20bps in the last 24 hours (10-min chart 3M/3Mx18 IRS). Now I need a new derivative to obsess over. Any tips? #nerdalert

Gilt lending by the Debt Management Office has been insufficient to ensure proper transmission of BoE policy, note Padhraic Garvey and Antoine Bouvet think.ing.com/articles/rates…

#Bitcoin - JPMorgan says one way of thinking about the downside is the BTC production cost. "At the moment, this production cost stands at $15k but it is likely to revisit the $13k low seen over the summer months implying a decline of around 25% from here." #BTC

A portfolio with 60% of its money invested in US #stocks and 40% invested in 10y UST has lost 15% this year, chart Real Time Economics cutt.ly/0MzV00M

Take Five: Market themes for the week ahead - Black Friday test Lewis Krauskopf Amanda Cooper Dhara Ranasinghe Karin Strohecker reuters.com/business/take-…

Volatility of Italy's spread fell sharply after the June ECB emergency meeting and stayed low even after Draghi's gov't fell. As Hanno Lustig says, this doesn't mean Italian debt got less risky. Risk is just being warehoused on the ECB balance sheet at the expense of others...

Take Five: Market themes for the week ahead - The grand 2022 central bank finale Lewis Krauskopf Dhara Ranasinghe Naomi Rovnick 歐蜜 Amanda Cooper Karin Strohecker Vincent Flasseur reuters.com/business/take-…

💵Dollar falls as Europe inflation cools and China lifts the Aussie - thank you Michael Brown for your help this AM! reuters.com/markets/curren…

After a long, cold year, investors are flocking back to Europe reut.rs/3JjFcAG

For anyone keeping a close eye on the ECB this week, this cheat sheet is great!

Good morning! The day that we've all been waiting for is HERE! Never mind who voted for what or what the rate outlook is. I'll be glad not to read/write/edit "Markets do nothing ahead of ECB/BOE" for another few weeks 😁 #journolife

If yesterday's central bank-fest and monster bond rally wasn't enough excitement for you, Big Tech shares are under pressure in Frankfurt (down 4-5% after earnings) and there's non-farm payrolls - e185K vs 223K prior. 🥳

#GBP holding steady after UK GDP shows the economy avoided a "technical recession" in Q4. Zero is the new growth! 🥳

#GBP - Small mercies! UK CPI falls to 10.1% in Jan from Dec's 10.5%. Core 5.6% vs 6.3% and RPIX a mere 12.6% - So as long as you didn't spend money on energy, food, booze or ciggies (core)/your mortgage (RPIX), you were ahead!

Take Five: Market themes for the week ahead - A year of war in Ukraine Naomi Rovnick 歐蜜 Karin Strohecker Vidya Ranganathan Lewis Krauskopf Amanda Cooper reuters.com/business/take-…