Market Overview

DOW – 65 = 16,674S&P 500 – 5 = 1990NASDAQ + 4 = 489310-Year – .08 = 2.22%OIL – .25 = 46.90GOLD + 11.80 = 1132.00SILV + .21 = 15.24The Fed will raise rates someday, just not...

The crowd is buzzing over the possibility that the Federal Reserve may be considering negative interest rates. Where did that notion come from? Well, from the horse’s mouth. As noted earlier, an...

The US dollar sold off in response to the Fed's lack of action, but it rebounded to close firmly before the weekend. For the past week as a whole, it was mixed. The Australian and New Zealand dollars...

Uncertainty remains in the market as we head into the end of the week after the Fed once again put off the decision to raise interest rates in the hope that it becomes more straight forward in the...

We expect euro area inflation to turn negative again in September and forecast a rate of -0.2% y/y, down from 0.1% y/y in August . Our new forecast comes on the back of a downward revision to headline...

The Fed punted on raising rates yesterday, but that didn’t stop it from raising its estimate of GDP growth for 2015… slightly. The median projection for this year has been tweaked up to...

Market BriefAs expected, the Fed left its monetary policy unchanged and reaffirmed the current federal funds rate target range of 0% to 0.25%. The biggest surprise however, came from the tone of the...

On Thursday morning and early afternoon the dollar slid lower against the other major currencies, even after data showed that U.S. jobless claims fell more than expected last week, as sentiment...

What to make of the dots, numbers and words, we do the data crunching and give our view on implications for FX, rates and equity markets.Following the FOMC meeting, we will host a conference call,...

On Thursday, I noted Bloomberg's comment "Something Very Wrong" with the manufacturing sector.More completely, Bloomberg stated "There may very well be something wrong with the manufacturing sector,...

Dollar tumbles broadly as FOMC decides to keep the target range for the federal funds rate between 0-0.25% and refrained from a rate hike. The decision was made with 9-1 vote, with Richmond Fed...

The Macro Outlook:We talked it over, and we decided not to raise rates “The recovery from the Great Recession has advanced sufficiently far, and domestic spending appears sufficiently robust,...

I would be a rich man if I had a penny for every letter written about the Federal Reserve decision. To hear analysts discuss it, you’d think the fate of the free world as we know it rests on...

In the press conference following Thursday's wimpy rate-hike decision by the Fed, chair Janet Yellen responded to a reporter's question about the possibility of a hike in October.Yellen stated that...