Market Overview

Following the build-up of last week’s Interest rates, the US turned their attention to the first U.S presidential debate which began at 02:00 GMT this morning. Investors will dissect every word...

For quite some time now I have been writing (constantly) about “something” going in “dollar” markets and funding markets all over the world. Chinese markets related to...

UK CBI Distributive Trades Index to help answer the post-Brexit vote question Brazil's consumer confidence index to hint at country's recovery prospects A rebound in US Services PMI will point to...

We chose to wait.” – Janet Yellen, chairperson of the Federal Reserve So the Fed did what everybody expected it to do – leaving rates untouched (again) and promising (again) to...

It’s time to consider a new paradigm for interest rates – a paradigm where treasury rates remain ultra low and riskier investments are priced by a decentralized market instead of a central...

The dollar is holding below a downward sloping 10-week moving average. That's usually a sign that an intermediate decline has begun. I know I'm the not the only analyst bullish on gold at the moment...

On the whole, with only two disappointments, I was very satisfied with yesterday’s action. The two detractors were EUR/USD and USD/JPY. I opted for a move lower in EUR/USD that I thought would...

With the recent increase in volatility and another down day, many are wondering if a new bear market is upon us. Indeed, the daily price scribbles can be very confusing and can keep us away from...

US equities had their best weekly performance in ten weeks as the S&P 500 closed up 1.2% last week. A deeply divided Fed left rates on hold, despite three dissensions (the most since 2011) and...

Disappointing Canadian economic dataOn Friday, two major data points darkened investors’ outlook on Canada’s economic performance. Core Inflation came in at 1.8% for August, the lowest...

In this short update, we provide our main views on the Chinese economy and a chart pack on growth indicators and markets.Chinese growth indicators continue to support the case for a moderate recovery...

The Bank of Japan gave us a glimpse as to just how far down the rabbit hole we may have to follow global policy makers as we try to make sense of ever more complex and shall we say, innovative...

The Japanese Yen and Swiss Franc opened the week higher on risk aversion. European stocks are trading generally lower with major indices down more than -1% at the time of writing. Sentiments were...

Dollar weakened broadly last week after Fed stood pat and revised down interest rate projections. Nonetheless the greenback pared back some losses as markets were still expecting another rate hike in...