Market Overview

Currencies The pair is trading in an upward channel on a 4 hour time frame. The next support is near the 1.1183 level and the resistance is at 1.1495. USD/JPY: The pair has broken is trading...

There are three highlights to the foreign exchange market today. First, the yen is marginally softer. The yen's strength this month has been the main development. After making a marginal new high...

USD/SGDToday’s support: - 1.3408 (main), where correction is possible. Break would give 1.3385, where correction also may be. Then follows 1.3366. Break of the latter would result in 1.3337. If...

Inflation and the lack thereofThis week is all about inflation data and today’s UK number, while it is unlikely to have too much of a bearing on interest rate expectations in the short term will...

Several Fed members are due to speak this week. Today, it is time for Harker, Lacker and Williams to deliver their view on the economy. However, none of them are voting members of the FOMC, which...

Although the credit markets appeared to shape up somewhat on the back of the dovish statements by the FED about two weeks ago, uncertainty prevails on the market outlook.German benchmark bond yields...

US markets experienced a heavy sell-off last night, and the picture is not looking any more optimistic this morning either. Concerns about the season’s earnings are very much on investors’...

European futures are pointing slightly lower ahead of the open on Tuesday, as investors eye the latest inflation data from the U.K. and negotiations between Greece and its lenders continue.Inflation...

When the central banks of three European countries and the European Central Bank (ECB) itself introduced negative interest rates (NIR) in mid-2014, many considered it be a temporary measure, a new...

Here’s a Tableau Script I picked up from the Council on Foreign Relations. The summary “Index of Global Tightening or Easing” color-bar can be found just above the map. The index...

The financial markets are generally steady in the early part of the week. DJIA continues to struggle in tight range below recent high at 17811.48 and closed slightly lower by -20.55 pts, or -0.12%, at...

Germany’s revised inflation data to confirm a slight rebound in pricing pressure UK inflation is on track to tick higher in March, posing rates question Sentiment among small companies in the US...

The stock market is still viewed as if it were a discounting mechanism, a system where information is processed and priced to deliver insight about the fundamental state of liquidity, markets, and the...

The old adage is that strong and sustained economic growth cures many ills, if not all of them, so it is unsurprising that so many central banks would be so determined to create it. They are,...