Market Overview

Financial giants and stock exchanges around the world are competing to get a piece of what promises to be the world’s largest initial public offering – the sale of shares in Saudi...

Japan’s central bank, the Bank of Japan (BOJ), undertook this past week a first test of its new policy of “yield curve control.” In proclaiming that policy in September, the BOJ set...

Over the weekend, I was doing some research and stumbled across an article my friend Cullen Roche wrote a couple of years ago entitled “Can we All Agree to Stop Comparing Everything to the...

Markets have been very positive on the new U.S President elect and have been quick to embrace the “reflation” trade over the past fortnight.Is it too much perhaps? If so, this would...

U.S. high-yield bonds led the way higher last week among the major asset classes, based on a set of representative ETFs. Although interest rates increased over the five trading days through Friday,...

The euro is trying to snap a ten-day losing streak. Its bounce today has stopped a little shy of the five-day moving average that is found near $1.0650. It has not traded above this short-term moving...

UK Revised GDP q/q is a second GDP release for the Q3 of 2016 period, and since it is the second release for the same quarter as most data have already been made available, it is much less likely to...

CA Core Retail Sales figure could be the short-term trend maker for CAD, especially considering the likelihood of a lower liquidity volume due to U.S. Thanksgiving holiday[ therefore I'd only take the...

Market BriefIn the FX market, it was a quiet start into the week as major currencies stabilised against the US dollar. The greenback was trading mostly lower this morning as it consolidated the last...

Key Fundamental Forex Events and Forecasts for the Coming WeekThe following table lists the key economic data and other events that are due out during the week of November 21st – November 25th,...

European equity markets are poised to get the week off to a slightly positive start on Monday, boosted by some decent gains in commodity markets which are being supported by the dollar rally finally...

Renminbi Retreat: Chinese authorities set the yuan's official “parity rate,” known as the fix, for the country’s tightly controlled currency 189 basis points lower to 6.8985 against...

President-elect Donald Trump’s recent announcement that he is “all for NATO” may have offered some comfort, but his repeated statements during the campaign regarding the North...

The financial markets are relatively steady as another week starts. Yen and Aussie trade mildly lower as recent decline extends but loss is limited so far. Asian indices are trading mildly higher with...