Market Overview

During my week’s break I have been following the market, mainly because I had to organise my charting software that had some bugs due to an inadequate interface with a Windows software...

The result of the first round of the French Presidential election will set the tone for the start of the week while central bank meetings in Japan then Europe will likely dominate the end of it. First...

The global flash manufacturing PMI was basically unchanged in April as improvement in Europe and Japan offset further slowing in the US PMI. Europe increased +0.6pts to a very strong 56.8, Japan was...

The results of the French presidential election will be known prior to the open of the Asian session. No doubt the outcome will spur an initial knee-jerk reaction, but barring an outright victory for...

The topic of this week has been the French elections. Everyone is watching the French elections results as if they will change the world, in an emotional rather than rational way. But it seems we're...

by Pinchas CohenBrexit, Trump and Now Frexit?France holds the first round of its presidential election today. Results have the potential to produce a trifecta for last year's swelling global...

CANADA: The consumer price index rose 0.2% in March, allowing the year-on-year inflation rate to decrease 4 ticks to 1.6%. In seasonally adjusted terms, CPI was down 0.2% as higher prices for food,...

Market movers ahead There are no clear favourites in the first round of the French presidential elections, in which several candidates are EU sceptics. The ECB meets during the week and will probably...

U.S. dollar net speculator positions edged higher to $15.34 billion last weekThe latest data for the weekly Commitment of Traders (COT) report, released by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission...

The Federal Reserve’s complete change last year wasn’t something that happened all at once. There were several hints that a lot was going on behind the scenes that may never become public,...

The Top 10 of the Ranking and Rating list for the coming week shows the following stronger currencies being well represented for going long: the JPY(4X) with the GBP(4X). The weaker currencies are the...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) revised up its forecast for global growth for the first time for five years when it released its World Economic Outlook last week. The IMF now expects global...

Unlike their counterparts at the ISM, Markit sees growth in both services and manufacturing weakening with U.S. private sector growth at a seven-month low in April.Markit notes that a profit squeeze...

Retail Debt DebaclesThe retail sector has replaced the oil sector in a sense, and not in a good way. It is the sector that is most likely to see a large surge in bankruptcies this year. Junk bonds...