Market Overview

Today’s Fed meeting is of critical importance, not only for what it says about any change in interest rates, but also for what it signals about the path ahead.U.S policy makers are expected to...

The global capital markets are subdued going into the FOMC meeting. The dollar is little changed. Equities are trading with a slight downside bias, while bond markets are firm. Italian bonds and...

by Eli WrightIt’s been just about a year since the Fed’s last rate hike on December 16, 2015. Consumer sentiment is bullish, the labor market is strengthening with unemployment holding...

Clients are bullish on the Scandies, expecting the downtrend to continue in both EURSEK and EURNOK.Meanwhile, clients have grown less bullish on the USD, despite the Fed being in hiking mode and a...

In the Netherlands, purchasing power has, on average, hardly changed since the financial crisis. However, substantial differences can be observed between socio-economic groups. Pensioners were worse...

The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has declined to grant China its market economy status. This was a massive blow to China as they faced their third application rejection. Having a market economy...

and all through the house, no one was stirring, not even the pound.Markets have been quiet overnight with speculators happy to wait to add to any positions until after we hear the pronouncements from...

US equities surged again overnight with three major indices making new record highs. In particular, DJIA ended up 114.78 pts, or 0.58%, to close at 1991.21 and is set to have a test on 20000 handle....

When US exports were reported a few months ago to have risen (slightly) in August 2016, it was widely expected that that increase was the start of many to follow. It was, after all, the first positive...

Chinese industrial production, retail sales, and fixed asset investment were all taken as better or improving. Industrial production, for example, was 6.2% in November 2016, up from 6.1% in both...

Today we have a vast network of online devices that are able to connect and exchange data with each other. This “internet of things” is hailed to the be next industrial revolution....

The Financial Markets are at all-time highs going into a rate hiking cycle by the Federal reserve, that seems like a rational, logical correlation. Assets often take the escalator up, and the freight...

UK jobless rate to remain at 4.8% while the claimant count is set to rise US retail spending growth should slow in November, but annual pace is steady A Fed hike is expected today; will the central...

The Trump effect on marketsA wave of optimism appears to be washing over stock markets this morning, with our screens aglow in green for European markets and all signs pointing to a bullish opening in...