Market Overview

Markets will keep a close eye on Theresa May's speech on Brexit in Florence this afternoon, where she will outline the details of the UK's negotiating stance after the UK formally leaves the EU at the...

EUR/GBPToday’s support: - 0.8820, 0.8798 and 0.8785 (main), where correction is possible. Break would give 0.8754, where correction also may be. Then follows 0.8723. Break of the latter would...

Yen recovers broadly today while Asian equities are trading generally lower as geopolitics is back haunting the markets. Tensions between North Korea and the US escalated again this week after US...

Market SummaryAsian markets were mostly lower on Thursday as investors readjusted on the latest Fed monetary policy and the likelihood of another interest rate hike this year. Australian markets faced...

Asian markets were mostly lower on Thursday as investors readjusted portfolios based on the latest Federal Reserve monetary policy, the likelihood of another U.S. interest rate hike this year, and a...

A few months ago, in a couple of articles entitled “The Bias in Investor Perceptions” and “What’s Wrong With the Long Run?”, I started to lay out the case for individuals...

As expected, Norges Bank (NB) left the sight deposit rate unchanged at 0.50% this morning . The Board maintained the neutral bias formally introduced in the statement in September 2016, and reiterated...

The inability of the crowd to earn anything close to Mr. Market’s performance is a hardy perennial. Although replicating market betas via low-cost index products has become child’s play,...

USD And Indices Pare Post-Fed GainsUS futures are marginally lower and the dollar is paring gains ahead of the open on Wall Street, as we see some early profit taking after the Fed unexpectedly...

When I was growing up my father, probably much like yours, had pearls of wisdom that he would drop along the way. It wasn’t until much later in life that I learned that such knowledge did not...

Markets will continue to digest the FOMC meeting yesterday, see our take here in FOMC review: Unchanged hiking signals as QT is set to begin next month , 20 September 2017.In the Scandi markets,...

The market has mostly interpreted the Fed's action in line with our thinking. Despite the lowering of the long-run Fed funds rate, the shifting one of the three hikes from 2019 into 2020, and...

USD gains as FOMC keeps its rate path unchanged The Fed kept interest rates unchanged yesterday, and announced it will begin to reduce the size of its enormous balance sheet in October, as was widely...

Dollar Rebounds After Fed StatementAs anticipated, the Fed announced it would begin from next month to reduce its approximately $4.2 trillion in holdings of U.S. Treasury bonds and mortgage-backed...