Market Overview

Cap Energy’s portfolio in Guinea-Bissau and Senegal is ideally positioned 15 February 2016 to benefit from continued exploration success across the region. Cairn Energy Plc (L:CNE) has followed...

On Tuesday 16 February (depending on market conditions), Kommuninvest is due to introduce a new loan (SE0008040786), set to mature on 16 February 2020 (thus fitting in between K1903 and K2012 on the...

Forex News and EventsECB to remain dovish Mario Draghi is due to speak before the European parliament committee in Brussels later this afternoon. The ECB’s president will likely deliver a dovish...

The safe-haven trade remained in force during last week’s trading activity for the major asset classes, based on a set of proxy ETFs. Bonds were the clear winner for the five trading days...

This week is light in terms of data releases for the euro area but, interestingly, ECB President Draghi is due to speak at the EU Parliament today at 15.00 CET. His words will be followed closely by...

The latest IMM data covers the week from 2 to 9 February 2016.To read the entire report Please click on the pdf File Below

We will host a conference call at 10:00-10:30 CET today in which we present our view on the risks of a new systemic crisis, with a particular focus on the euro area and market implications. See Market...

• Asian equity markets mostly in the green Asian equity markets rallied today, with the only exception being China’s Shanghai Composite 300, which closed somewhat below its opening mark...

Market BriefThe PBoC’s decision to set the USD/CNY fixing to 6.5118, down 0.30%, helped the risk sentiment to improve substantially. As a result Asian regional equity markets started the week...

A surge in Asian equities owing to a poorer than expected Japanese Q4 GDP has continued in Europe. The Nikkei 225, under pressure over the past week owing to a strong yen has bounced back adding...

Macro consensus trades into 2016 have not worked well, at all. This past week saw a large flush-out in positioning across financial markets. There are three consensus trades that we feel have been...

European markets are poised to open much higher on Monday, tracking gains made in Asia overnight which came despite some questionable economic data from the region.China’s trade figures for...

This week’s trading session began with the quarterly release of the Japanese Preliminary GDP data, which declined once again and reached -0.4%, down from -0.2% of November’s release. That...

Asian markets opened the week generally higher follow gains in US on Friday. Nikkei shrugged off worst than expected GDP data and is trading up more than 700pts, or 4.8% at the time of writing. Japan...