Merriman Market Analyst
May 2, 2025
Special thanks to MMA analysts Pouyan Zolfagharnia and Gianni Di Poce for covering for me the last two weeks with their excellent columns. REVIEW Job growth was stronger than expected in April despite worries over the impact of President Donald Trump’s blanket tariffs against U.S. trading partners. Nonfarm payrolls increased...
Read MoreApril 25, 2025
Listen on Spotify, Apple, and Amazon REVIEW U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday refuted China’s claims that there were no ongoing trade discussions between Beijing and Washington. — Evelyn Cheng, “Trump asserts trade talks with China are underway after Beijing denies any ongoing negotiations,” www.cnbc.com, April 24, 2025.
Read MoreApril 18, 2025
Listen on Spotify, Apple, and Amazon Note to Subscribers from Ray; I’ll be traveling today and again next Friday, so in the meantime, we have some excellent contributors stepping in for the Free Weekly Column. This week’s column is brought to you by MMA analyst and editor of the popular MMA+ Report, Pouyan...
Read MoreApril 11, 2025
Listen on Spotify, Apple, and Amazon Watch on YouTube REVIEW US President Trump’s retreat from trade taxes took less than 24 hours. However, taxes on imports from China increased, and the universal 10% import tax stays in place….The big lessons from this: policy remains very (very) erratic; policy competence will be questioned by markets—chaotic...
Read MoreApril 4, 2025
Listen on Spotify, Apple, and Amazon Watch on YouTube NOTE: MMA analyst Wyatt Fellows is the author of this week’s free weekly column. Wyatt is the editor of the monthly MMA Cycles Grain report, which was issued this week and covers Corn, Wheat, and Soybeans. He is also the lead MMA analyst, along with...
Read MoreMarch 28, 2025
NOTE: This week’s free weekly column will be written by MMA Analyst Pouyan Zolfagharnia. Pouyan is the editor of the MMA Monthly Cycles Report Plus+, which will be issued this week and covers Gold, Silver, NASDAQ, and Crude Oil. Ray will return to write next week’s column on April 4....
Read MoreMarch 21, 2025
Listen on Spotify, Apple, and Amazon NOTE: Ray has a presentation for the Astrology University Summit tomorrow, so MMA Market Analyst Gianni Di Poce will be writing this week’s column. Gianni is also the author of the newly published book titled “Esoteric Economics.” Highly recommended! Gianni can be reached at gianni@mmacycles.com. Next...
Read MoreMarch 14, 2025
Listen on Spotify, Apple, and Amazon Watch on YouTube REVIEW Consumer sentiment took another hit in March as worries intensified over inflation and a slumping stock market, according to the University of Michigan’s latest sentiment survey released Friday. The survey posted a mid-month reading of 57.9, which represents a 10.5% decline from February and...
Read MoreMarch 7, 2025
Listen on Spotify, Apple, and Amazon NOTE: There will be no weekly column this week due to the “Convergence 2025” Conference in Orlando, Florida, in which several MMA analysts will be featured. Therefore, we are sharing a reprint of the back section of Forecast 2025, the Winter Ingress (December 21, 2024 through March...
Read MoreFebruary 28, 2025
Listen on Spotify, Apple, and Amazon Watch on YouTube NOTE: There will be no weekly column next week due to the “Convergence 2025” conference taking place in Orlando, Florida. Most of our analysts will be attending. However, we will reprint a section of the Forecast 2025 book that is very pertinent to what is...
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