Market Overview

We´ll be getting the Canadian Employment Change release figure on Friday and since it is not being released along with the US Nonfarm Payroll, we should see plenty of market reaction directed at...

RBNZ Interest Rate decision is expected to be cut by another 25 basis points, but since there is a small group of analysts forecasting a no-change verdict, anything is possible…5:00pm (NY Time)...

AU RBA Interest Rate Decision is likely to keep rates unchanged but there is a consensus of further rate cuts in the near future as inflation continues to remain soft in Australia; as far as another...

EDHEC Infrastructure Institute-Singapore recently released a paper on the cash flow dynamics of private infrastructure project debt.The gist of the paper is that investors’ ability to understand...

European equity markets are expected to start the week relatively unchanged, following a similar session in Asia overnight where a lack of notable data or news flow failed to provide much direction...

Surveys of German manufacturing imply that factory orders will continue to rebound Subdued Eurozone growth forecasts may weigh on Sentix Investor Confidence data The Fed’s Labour Market...

Friday's US payrolls report, which to a large extent represents a latent effect of the US dollar rally over the past couple of years, was dismal. On a relative basis, hiring Americans has become more...

Business Investment “depends on the prospective yield of capital, and not merely on its current yield” , John Maynard KeynesOne of the many puzzles of the recovery since the 2008 crisis...

You didn’t really expect things to go as planned, did you?The Regional Fed Presidents as well as Janet Yellen have been doing their best to keep market expectations on track and price action...

Through the first part of the year, the swinging pendulum of expectations for the trajectory of Fed policy has been a major driver in the foreign exchange market. This is true even though the ECB and...

Payrolls rose just 38,000 during May, the weakest gain since September 2010, and the previous two months were revised downward by 59,000 collectively. However, something just doesn’t add up with...

Personal spending had its strongest monthly increase in 4 years. The BEA reported that personal consumption expenditures rose an inflation-adjusted .6% in April, which confirms the strong 1.3% rise in...

Last week, several stories and reports highlighted weak global productivity growth. On Monday, a Financial Times article titled, “The productivity puzzle that baffles the world’s...

We’ve had quite a busy week across the globe. Friday’s non-farm payroll figure was a major disappointment as the US added only 38K jobs. A June rate hike is now off the table, and it might...