Market Overview

Italy’s industrial production set to keep rising in January's year-on-year comparison Another positive reading expected for the Fed’s Labor Market Conditions Index Will the 10-year...

UK BOE Interest Rate Decision is not likely to surprise the market as Europe as whole is still recovering and so far economic improvements have not reached a point to start tightening, and also...

The Australian Employment Change release today will likely be a very tradable release as market is looking for directions. I’d also pay close attention to both sub-components of the release,...

NZ GDP q/q is a quarterly release and because it is released only a few times a year, market tends to pay close attention and any surprise should drive NZD in the direction of the release for a...

U.S. FOMC Interest Rate decision and the BLS Nonfarm Payroll reports are focuses for the week. With the Fed set to hike yet another 25 basis point, we should see plenty of demand for USD but unless...

US Core Retail Sales is a high impact tradable release but since it is scheduled to be released with the Core CPI and the fact the Fed is readying a rate hike in just a few hours, I would only trade...

In our view, the February jobs report removed the last obstacle for a Fed hike on Wednesday.We do not expect any major changes to the statement. Fed still awaits more information about...

Key Points: EMA bias suggests downside risks are in place. Despite a recent tumble, the RSI remains neutral. FOMC is in focus. The Aussie Dollar had an interesting last week, having some strong...

This week’s Notes From the Rabbit Hole included a little Payrolls/Wages related economic discussion before moving on to the usual coverage of stock markets, commodities, precious metals, bonds,...

“I don’t understand you,’ said Alice. ‘It’s dreadfully confusing!’‘That’s the effect of living backwards,’ the Queen said kindly: ‘it always...

According to the International Monetary Fund, global debt has grown to a staggering grand total of 152 trillion dollars. Other estimates put that figure closer to 200 trillion dollars, but for the...

Central Bank CacophonyIt will a busy Central Bank week this week, with the Fed, BoJ and BOE all on tap. The markets are fully subscribing to a March Fed rate hike, so the focus will be on the dot...

Vehicle Sales were released last week at 17.47mil SAAR (Seasonally Adjusted Annual Rate). Employment reports released today were higher than the average forecast. The Household Survey Employment...

USD/JPY broke 115 before non farm payroll, but crashed back below on profit taking. Will Fed rate hike this week push USD/JPY above 115 again?A superb ADP non-farm payroll came in at 298K, the highest...