Market Overview

Sterling has stolen the US dollar's spotlight. The issue facing market participants was if the rise in hourly earnings reported as part of the pre-weekend release of US December jobs data was...

The FTSE refreshed its record high at the London open, helped along by a cheaper sterling. The FTSE 100 stocks advanced to 7239p, as energy (+0.40%) and mining stocks (+0.77%) led gains at the...

US Core Retail Sales is a high impact tradable release and the only one for the week. With market returning back to normal, I would only take a trade if we get our tradable deviation or at least see...

EUR/CHFToday’s support: - 1.0698 and 1.0676 (main), where correction is possible. Break would give 1.0648, where correction also may be. Then follows 1.0623. Break of the latter would result...

Not the end of Trump rallyMarkets are still very much in wait-and-see mode this morning; waiting on a press conference from Donald Trump this Wednesday, waiting to see if inflation and the...

Sterling opens the week broadly lower as weighed down by comments from UK prime minister Theresa May. May emphasized in a televised interview that Brexit is about "getting the right relationship, not...

5 FOMC members are scheduled to make 6 speeches this week, including Fed Chair Janet Yellen. How will the dollar dance along with their speeches?The first nonfarm payroll of 2017 fizzled out at 156K,...

FTSE +27 points at 7237DAX +36 points at 11635 CAC +13 points at 4922 Euro Stoxx +10 points at 3331 The US jobs data printed a mixed image on Friday. The US economy added 156’000 new nonfarm...

Higher Swedish CPI expected in December. Sharply higher prices on airfare tickets along with a big jump in gasoline, which is only partially offset by lower electricity prices, is likely to have...

There are no big market movers today and markets this week will watch for comments from Fed members following the US employment report on Friday that showed the highest wage growth since 2009 (see...

Eurozone Investor Confidence Index likely to rebound in January Unemployment in the Eurozone on track to hold steady in November US Labour Market Conditions Index may raise warning flag for the...

I’ve been talking a lot with new and developing traders, doing some one on one work, and also hanging out in some forums that cover a very wide range of experience and sophistication. Seeing...

If we refuse to recognize the high utility value of USD and its global ease of flow, then we will continue to misunderstand the demand for the dollar and its appreciation. I have covered the many...

Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997. Seven years later, the nation was slimming down by cutting carbs. And in 2007, Netflix began streaming video online.These are all major events... major events...