🚨19 JUNE 2025
HEADLINE: "HAWKS, HEADLINES & HALTS: MARKETS TREAD WATER"
🔹🇺🇸Fed Pause, Still Hawkish: Rates held steady; inflation worries persist due to tariffs. #PowellRemarks
🔹Labor Debate: Market robust, but softening employment could sway Fed later.
🔹Oil Shrugs Off Geopolitics: Crude volatility fades despite Israel-Iran tension; Trump eyes Iran deal.
🔹Tariff Ticking Time Bomb: Key dates loom—July 14 (🇪🇺EU), August 12 & 31 (China)—raising downside risk.
🔹Crypto Cools for Summer: BTC vols dip below 40%, puts dominate, activity slows amid OPEX and rebalancing.
