Hardika Singh
Economic Strategist, Market Intelligence
Hardika writes original economics and markets analysis for the daily note First to Market, weekly note Your Week Ahead, and bi-weekly note Signal From Noise. She specializes in translating complex topics into digestible insights for vertical videos on LinkedIn and TikTok, media appearances, and opinion articles in publications. She learned how to do that well when she analyzed and reported on financial markets for the Wall Street Journal. There, she was also in charge of writing the newspaper’s daily Central Banking Pro newsletter and frequently appeared on CBS News to help investors understand the latest market moves. In her current role, she appears on NYSE TV and is quoted in the New York Times, Bloomberg, CNN, CNBC, Barron's, Axios, MarketWatch, The Street, Business Insider, and more.
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First to Market
Stocks Are Going Berserk but the Stock Market Isn’t
For all the chaos going on in the stock market, the overall index appears rather calm. While that has historically been a bad mix for...
First to Market
Unwrapping The Sustainability of the K-Shaped Economy
A K-shaped economy is concerning, but signs suggest that it could continue to widen and yet still might not necessarily be the demise of America. ...
First to Market
What to Make of Meta’s Plans to Potentially Rent Its AI?
Meta is working on a plan for a cloud infrastructure business that will allow it to rent out its AI computing power and models.
First to Market
Why the Dow Jones Industrial Average Beat the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite in June
The Dow Jones Industrial Average’s propensity to exclude hot tech stocks paid off in June, allowing the stodgy, old index to surge past its peers...
First to Market
The Smallest of Small Caps Are Winning
The Russell Microcap index has gained 25% this year, beating the small-cap benchmark Russell 2000’s gain of 20%, which just posted its best first half...
Weekend Alpha
Job Market Bad News is Good News for Stocks
The broad-based index rose 1.8% to 7,483.24 points, with eight out of 11 sectors finishing in the green. It has been up for 12 of...
First to Market
Job Market Strength’s Pretty Much The Sole Determinant of Rates Now
The new Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh wants to get rid of forward guidance and wants investors and economists to watch the underlying data instead...
First to Market
Stocks Wrap Up Best Quarter Since 2020
Investors’ worst fear—war in the Middle East—raged on in the second quarter, but it didn’t weigh heavily on the stock market.
First to Market
Why Does the Fed Need Special Exclusions Anyway?
“Had Volcker never pushed through his radical change in policy, the world would be many bond traders and one memoir the poorer.” ― Michael Lewis,...
Signal from Noise
Memory Stocks’ Volatile Run is Good News For The Magnificent Seven
This year’s stock-market party has been almost entirely concentrated in semiconductor stocks, prompting many investors to question if it’s time to diversify into the Lag...
