Market Overview

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

First out in Sweden are inventory data (Monday, at 09.30 CET) from both the industrial and services sectors. This will have a direct impact on GDP and will hopefully clarify how corporates are...

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...

Chinese yuan strengthens by most since 2005Thoughts of a continual fall in the value of the Chinese yuan following additional policy stimulus turned to dust this morning as the yuan strengthened...

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...

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...

Risk aversion was the dominant theme for most part of last week until Friday, when stocks and oil staged a strong rebound, together with treasury yields. It should be noted that DJIA, S&P 500 and...

There seems to be a calming of nerves and a slight change in the atmosphere surrounding those active in financial markets.Better volumes would have been the icing on the cake for the bulls on Friday,...