Market Overview

Forex News and EventsUS data is key US front-end yields continue to climbing causing the overall curve to flatten as markets price in a June rate hike. U.S. 2-Year yields have reached 2016 high at...

NZD/USD Today’s support: - 0.6705, 0.6683 and 0.6660(main), where correction is possible. Break would give 0.6632, where correction also may be. Then follows 0.6615. Break of the latter would...

This week is set up for an interesting run of data releases that will start the month of June with a bang.ECB need more inflation Thursday’s ECB meeting is naturally overshadowed in June by...

Market BriefAfter a very quiet Monday due to a bank holiday in UK and Memorial Day in the US, volatility picked up in Asia on Tuesday. The biggest move came from the Australian dollar, which rose...

Tuesday May 31: Five things the markets are talking about.Capital markets are back to full participation after yesterday’s holiday observance in the U.K and U.S. A number of key releases are...

The US dollar is broadly mixed. The main narrative of increased prospects for a Fed hike in June or July has been pushed off center stage as the market reacts to local developments as investors await...

If I suggested to you that Greece should be afforded unconditional debt relief, you’d probably meet the idea with amazement.But that’s exactly what the International Monetary Fund has just...

Yen continues to trade broadly lower and the weakness is lifting Nikkei mildly. At the time of writing, USD/JPY is trading steadily above 111 handle while Nikkei is up 0.5%. Expectation of rate hike...

Canada – The Survey of Employment, Payrolls and Hours (SEPH), which queries businesses, showed jobs were up 25K in March over February. Employment in the goodsproducing industries was...

The financial markets are closely scrutinising US economic releases to assess the strength of the US economy after being caught on the wrong foot with regard to the next Fed hike. Today, we are due to...

European equity markets are expected to open relatively mixed on Tuesday following a quiet start to the week as bank holidays in the U.K. and U.S. hit trading volumes.Fortunately, the week should pick...

The bankruptcies of public bond-issuing entities, such as Orange County, Calif.; Jefferson County, Ala.; and the City of Detroit, Mich. are still rare events, but they exert a lot of influence, in...

German expansion is less than stellar but strong enough to lift the Eurozone Germany’s official jobless rate will probably hold at a low 6.2% rate US consumer spending for April is expected to...

If we are going to highlight improving fundamentals, which we did as gold out-performed commodities and stock markets, then we also have to highlight and respect eroding fundamentals; no ifs, ands or...