Federal Reserve: Economic outlook and current situation. As expected, the US central bank left its policy rate unchanged at the January meeting. Therefore, market attention focused on Jerome Powell’s press conference. What did markets hear? The Fed chair said the US economy continued to grow at a steady pace in 2025, stressing that its fundamentals […]

S&P 500 Technical Analysis After the Gap Down at This Week’s Open – Why Traders Needed Patience Near Friday’s Close The S&P 500 opened the new trading week on Monday, January 26, 2026, with what looked like a scary gap down. From Friday’s close near 6,933.75, futures briefly dropped to around 6,879, a move of

Despite a certain easing of geopolitical tensions after D. Trump’s speech at the Davos forum, as they say, a residue remains. Yes, the U.S. president stated that he would not occupy Greenland, but at the same time made it clear that this island, which belongs to Denmark, would still fall into a vassal dependency on

The EUR/USD pair has continued its decline for the sixteenth day in a row. Now that three weeks have already passed since the start of the drop, it is time to ask the question: why is the market buying the dollar at all? I find it difficult to answer this, as there was virtually no