Market Overview

The US dollar is little changed, unable to recover much from this week's slide. Only the Canadian dollar among the majors has failed to gain on the greenback this week. Core bond markets are quiet,...

Dollar recovers broadly today as markets turn focus back to key economic data from US. While the greenback is trading in red against most major currencies, Canadian dollar is even weaker as WTI crude...

Will the Riksbank cut rates again after all?Short rates provide a cheap option on a rate cut. Buy SGB1059 versus SGB1057 in ASW box or curve spread. To read the entire report Please click on the pdf...

Today, the US jobs report for October due out at 13:30 CET will be in focus. We continue to receive mixed signals about the labour market. Claims figures continue to signal job growth well above...

As expected, the Bank of England (BoE) left monetary policy unchanged at the November meeting.However, the tone was more hawkish than expected as it shifted from an easing bias to a neutral bias,...

conference call following the US election. The US election is one of the most important events in 2016 for the future of global policymaking, the global economy and financial markets. In this...

If we were to accurately describe the economy right now, it would be weak – but not getting weaker. I believe that is the product of the “dollar”, or lack of further...

One of the more absurd ideas in recent years is the world is running out of dollars. From time to time that theory pops up, as it did again just a few days ago.Telegraph writer Ambrose Evans-Pritchard...

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Sterling is the strongest currency Thursday. The 1.3% gain (at $1.2460) edges out the Mexican peso (1.2%). It is the biggest advance in three months.The precise cause of the rally is debatable. Some...

Elections can or cannot have profound impacts on markets. In western democracies, they generally don't, because the differences in the positions of the candidates are more superficial than profound....

In the movie “Casablanca,” Humphrey Bogart tells Ingrid Bergman, “Ilsa, I’m no good at being noble, but it doesn’t take much to see that the problems of three little...

It was another blow to crude oil prices yesterday as we learned from the Energy Information Administration (EIA) that U.S. crude oil inventories had risen by 14.4 million barrels the previous week....

The Federal Reserve has effectively given the green light to a December rate hike, that is as long as we don’t see a major disruptive event playing out between now and 14 December. The fact that...