Market Overview

The euphoria seen on many trading floors yesterday has petered out, but the overriding feeling of ‘not as bad as feared’ is in play.The big theme in Asia today has been the 4.9% move in...

Production to remain strongTuesday mornings in 2016 have largely been spent explaining the vast and volatile moves with which Monday’s markets have started the week; today is no different. Oil...

Aussie is generally higher in Asian session today on easing risk aversion and as RBA signals wait and see on wait cut. Nikkei extends this week's rebound and is trading up 220 pts, or 1.4% at the time...

Bulls have decided to keep the rally on over in Asia on the back of optimism that more quantitative easing will be on the way from the Bank of Japan after it released its GDP reading which confirmed...

CurrenciesEUR/USD: The pair has broken its upward trend line on a 4 hour time frame. The next support is near the 1.1083 level and the resistance is 1.1487. USD/JPY: The pair has broken its downward...

Economic Reports Scorecard Relative to expectations, the incoming reports over the last two weeks have run about even, just about as many better than expected as worse. That’s a significant...

Range of the week : 1.3600-1.4200A drop in the value of the U.S. dollar and the downturn on equity markets have become recurring themes since the beginning of February. For a second consecutive week,...

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.Mark TwainThe “devalue or die” currency wars are picking up steam; Japan’s...

Stocks officially entered a bear market last week, at least as measured by the MSCI World index. But then that isn’t exactly news in a lot of places on the globe with various markets around the...

Summary: The mining and manufacturing sectors of the US economy have rolled over. Perma-bear websites publish lurid descriptions of the horrific effect this will have on the US economy. What’s...

Whether you are Warren Buffet, Carl Icahn or Bill Ackman cutting losses is the hardest thing to do in Financial Markets these days.Below you find the video

It’s a holiday weekend, giving U.S. markets (and market writers) a breather, so it’s time for another holiday edition. There isn’t much new to say about last week’s action...

Stocks and Gold:Will markets and traders ever learn? The lead paragraph on the major markets Guardian article today was as follows: “Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank, has...

European markets are ready to roar as there is still more fuel left for the bulls to push the markets higher. The fact is that if you look at the technicals, they will tell you only one affair,...