April Was the Best Month for the Market Since 2020. Here's What's Driving It.

April 2023 marked the strongest month for equity markets since 2020, driven by a combination of easing inflation pressures and robust corporate earnings reports. This improvement in risk appetite has led to a significant capital flow into equities, as investors seek higher returns amid a stabilizing economic outlook. Sectors particularly exposed include technology and consumer discretionary, which have benefited from increased consumer spending and positive sentiment. Traders will be closely watching the upcoming Federal Reserve meeting for any indications on interest rate policy, as this could influence market momentum and investor behavior moving forward.

HIGH-impact news is typically a market-moving event with multi-pip or multi-percent intraday reactions. Examples include central bank rate decisions, major CPI/NFP releases, geopolitical shocks, mega-cap earnings beats/misses, and regulatory announcements. Traders typically position-reduce or hedge ahead of scheduled HIGH-impact events, and follow the wire in real time to react to unscheduled ones (war headlines, central-bank emergency statements, surprise corporate actions). The Trading News Terminal squawk box reads every HIGH-impact headline aloud the moment it hits the wire — so active traders don't have to stare at the feed.

Active traders typically follow a three-step workflow when a market-moving headline hits the wire: (1) read the headline on the terminal or hear it on the squawk box; (2) assess whether the news is already priced in (by checking intraday price action in the seconds before) or whether it's genuinely new information; (3) act — either entering a breakout position, fading an overreaction, or tightening stops on existing trades. Trading News Terminal's Pro plan delivers wire-grade headlines within seconds of the source, with automatic audio squawk on every HIGH-impact event, so the read-assess-act cycle never waits on a refresh button.