Market Overview

The Federal Reserve continued to press ahead yesterday with its public relations effort of talking up the possibility of a rate hike, perhaps as early as next month. The latest addition to the...

Tuesday May 24: Five things the markets are talking about With “hawkish” Fed rhetoric remaining equities' biggest hurdle, coupled with ‘little’ new U.S economic data, the end...

“Nobody Knows Anything” is a new book written by Bob Moriarty, the proprietor of 321gold.com. It’s close to the book that I would write about investing, but Bob is a better writer...

The release of the latest FOMC minutes has once again kicked the hornet’s nest that is the world of market commentators. Following the release, the market rallied to the greenback and analysts...

First it was Stan Druckenmiller, now it’s George Soros. Following billionaire former hedge fund manager Druckenmiller’s announcement that gold was his family office fund’s largest...

The US dollar lost momentum yesterday but has regained it today. The euro has been pushed through last week's lows near $1.1180. The next immediate target is $1.1145, which corresponds to the lower...

During Dilma Rousseff’s six-year occupation of the presidency, she ran Brazil’s economy into the ground. Luckily for the country, Vice President and successor, moderate Michel Temer, has...

AUD/JPY Today’s support: - 78.69 and 78.47(main), where correction is possible. Break would give 78.31, where correction also may be. Then follows 78.16. Break of the latter would result in...

The talk on the trading floors this morning centres on the limited moves in markets, although some will welcome this, notably the Fed who have had a hand in creating these conditions. The fact the...

CurrenciesEUR/USD – remains trading around the support around the 1.12 level, although it dropped shortly below this level and came close to the support around the 1.117 level. The main reason...

Focus today will turn to the Eurogroup meeting where Greece is in focus as the economic data calendar is relatively thin. Sunday evening the Greek parliament approved the 'first review bill' including...

Overall, European credit indices have been trading range-bound during the past week, with the European main and cross over indices being broadly unchanged compared to last week. Thus iTraxx Main...

European equity markets are expected to open a little lower on Tuesday, tracking similar losses in Asia overnight but remaining firmly within this month’s relatively tight trading...

While Markit’s economic sentiment surveys had usually been perhaps a touch more optimistic about the state of the world than others or other data, May has been a rough month for that...