Market Overview

There’s an old saying, "If you have no expectations, you'll never be disappointed.” Some might even suggest it's universal wisdom – a tenet that neither leads one astray nor fools...

Ahead of Thursday’s announcement from the Federal Reserve, focus has remained on Australasia and Asia with news from Australia, Japan and China all impacting world markets.The most significant...

Last week’s forecast of “rapidly rising risk” of a global recession from Citigroup’s chief global economist, William Buiter, is attracting attention, which isn’t...

With only two days to go until the most anticipated Fed decision in years, investors are understandably quite cautious today but there is a number of economic data releases that may spark some...

Market BriefUSD/JPY was trading substantially higher in early Asian session amid speculations concerning the expansion on the quantitative easing program by the Bank of Japan. However, Governor Kuroda...

Buy SGBi3107 and sell SGBi3102 in a BEI flattener@ 42.5bp. P/L: 20bp/60bp. 1m Carry -6bp. We have argued on a few occasions that the Riksbank can impact inflation short term through the exchange rate....

After the European wheat harvest, attention turns to the Australian wheat output, with the risk of dry El Niño weather approaching in the coming months.The spread between CBOT wheat and Matiff...

The following are the expectations for today's BoJ meeting as provided by the economists at 12 major banks and some thoughts on the JPY into the event as provided by the FX strategists at these...

As we approach Thursday, many traders and investors will now be working through their minds and penning scenarios for this much anticipated Federal Funds Rate decision.Although a lot of trading is...

Currency traders are hesitant to make any major trades before the FOMC monetary policy statement on Thursday. Nearly a decade has passed since the U.S. Central Bank has raised its benchmark interest...

The Finnish economic outlook has weakened once again. GDP growth of 0.2% in Q2 was the slowest among euro area economies. Exports are taking longer than expected to resume growth and rising...

Last week the European credit market moved more or less sideways. iTraxx Main was unchanged at 71bp, while iTraxx Crossover widened marginally to 329bp.Thursday was one of the busiest day on the...

Market Movers US retail sales is the main market mover today. We expect another solid increase in the core retail sales measure (ex autos, gasoline and building materials) of 0.3% m/m (in line with...

EUR/USDToday’s support: -1.1284, 1.1250 and 1.1210(main),where correction is possible. Break would give 1.1176, where correction also may be. Then follows 1.1153. Break of the latter would...