Market Overview

The US dollar is mostly consolidating yesterday's move. Sterling is pushing back through $1.29 as the hawks on the MPC may not have been dissuaded by disappointing PMI readings and the softer earnings...

I greatly under-estimated the confidence of the Bank of Canada (BoC) when I mapped out the possibilities for a currency market that highly anticipated a rate hike from the Bank.In its latest statement...

German CPI data released this morning pushed the euro-dollar pair higher as the number (0.2%) matched the forecast. The needle for inflation hasn't moved therefore, it confirms that Mario Draghi could...

The risk appetite is back in force after Janet Yellen hinted that the cost of borrowing could increase slower than previously thought at the first day of her semiannual testimony in front of the...

FTSE +6 points at 7422DAX +24 points at 12650 CAC +2 points at 5224 Euro Stoxx +3 points at 3518 The Federal Reserve (Fed) Chair Janet Yellen squeezed the dollar lower at the first day of her...

Bank of Canada hikes rates; Loonie surges The Bank of Canada raised its benchmark interest rate by 25bps yesterday, in line with market expectations. The tone of the statement accompanying the...

Summary: Janet Yellen’s comments to congress caused the greenback to trade in a wide range with an overall downward trend. S. stocks made significant gains with Dow Jones index creating a new...

The dollar eased against the yen on Wednesday, following Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen’s dovish speech. The dollar index fell 0.23% during the Asian session today, confirming weakness in...

AUD/CADToday’s support: - 0.9743 and 0.9720 (main), where correction is possible. Break would give 0.9692, where correction also may be. Then follows 0.9669. Break of the latter would result...

Dollar trades broadly lower as markets generally percevied Fed chair Janet Yellen's testimony as a dovish one. DOW ended up 123.07 pts, or 0.57% at record high of 21532.14. Meanwhile, 10 year yield...

Market Movers Today Today focus will be on inflation with the Swedish print for June being a very uncertain story. There are several sources of uncertainty, which, in our view, basically are just a...

Revised German consumer inflation for June should equal the preliminary estimate The consumer prices data could even deliver an upside surprise US jobless claims to edge down and reaffirm an upbeat...

Given their modest size, Veneto Banca and Banca Popolare di Vicenza are set to undergo an insolvency procedure under Italian law rather than under the framework laid down by the European...

The fragility of our financial buffers will only be revealed when they fail in the next crisis. While buffer has a specific meaning in chemistry, I am using the word in the broad sense of a reserve...