SSO News and Press, ProShares Ultra S&P500 From 06/15/24

2024-06-15 04:00:00 ET Summary NVIDIA has been up 155% year to date; its market cap is over $3 trillion. All previous stock market bubbles share the following in common: a narrow stock market rally that focuses on a small group of stocks in a small sector of the economy that Wall ...

2024-06-14 23:00:00 ET Summary Recent focus has centered on the Federal Open Market Committee’s dot plot, which now suggests just one rate cut in 2024. A closer examination reveals the committee is divided, with more participants (8 out of 19) anticipating two rate cuts thi...

2024-06-14 21:20:00 ET Summary The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) kept the benchmark policy rate at 5.25%-5.50% at its June meeting for the seventh consecutive meeting. More significantly, the latest dot plot revealed that the FOMC’s median projection has removed two ...

2024-06-14 09:53:13 ET Wells Fargo argued that it sees the Federal Reserve stepping in and cutting rates twice in 2024 as the path to get back to 2% inflation is coming more into focus, with core inflation easing for the second consecutive month in May.... Read the full article on See...

2024-06-14 09:45:00 ET Summary One softer-than-expected monthly inflation reading didn’t stop Federal Reserve officials from delaying the expected start of interest rate cuts. After these surprisingly firm core PCE readings earlier this year, Fed officials confirmed that th...

2024-06-14 07:15:00 ET Summary What makes the dollar's performance stand out is that it is taking place as US rates have fallen. The euro has been sold to almost $1.0670 and sterling has been pushed below $1.2700. In Japan, the BOJ made no change in its bond purchases, disappo...

2024-06-14 04:50:00 ET Summary The Federal Government publishes the spending and revenue numbers on a monthly basis. This was the second-largest May ever, only behind May 2020 during the very depths of the pandemic. On average, May experiences a deficit of -$127B, which makes ...

2024-06-14 03:26:51 ET Summary The Federal Reserve met in June, holding interest rates steady, pointing to one rate cut in 2024, and pushing their inflation forecasts higher. The meeting went as expected, with inflation remaining well above the Federal Reserve’s target rate...

2024-06-13 22:25:42 ET Summary The latest economic data came mixed when all things considered. Both bulls and bears are making arguments that make sense on paper. There is plenty of uncertainty, but volatility and volume are at historically low levels, which causes even more c...

2024-06-13 19:15:00 ET Summary Economic data, including jobless claims, came in weaker than expected this morning. For seasonally adjusted initial claims, there was a jump to 242K in the first week of June, the highest reading since last August. We would note that continuing c...