The third quarter of 2026 is in the books, and the scoreboard is unambiguous: the US dollar beat everything. Look at the numbers. The Federal Reserve’s own H.10 data shows the euro buying just 1.1259 dollars as of October 2 — down from 1.1367 a week earlier and miles below the 1.17 handle where it […]
The third quarter is officially in the books. Here’s the scoreboard. The dollar: winner, again After a shaky July and a genuinely bad August, the greenback closed the quarter with a vengeance. Against the euro, September’s 3% rally erased two months of losses and then some — the Fed’s own data shows the euro at […]
The second quarter closed on Tuesday. Here’s the cross-asset scoreboard, because the story it tells is more coherent than any single market’s narrative. The numbers Stocks: the S&P 500 ended June at 7,499, up about 1% for a choppy quarter that featured a record high in May (7,599), a June correction to 7,238, and a […]
The second quarter closes today, and the headline numbers suggest a snoozer. Don’t be fooled. EUR/USD ends Q2 at 1.1438, down modestly from its late-March levels. USD/JPY closes near 161.45, up a few percent. GBP/USD at 1.3353 is roughly where it started April. On the surface: range-bound markets, nothing to see. But the quarter’s real […]