Market Overview

Last Week’s Recap EUR/USD sold off last week as the FOMC Meeting Minutes and strength in U.S. core inflation made a case for Fed tightening with both economies reporting mixed economic...

Tough, currency manipulation penalties contained within the draft of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) may sound the death knell of the trade pacts approval by the Obama Administration. In recent...

According to an article on CNBC this week, the Dow is on course to form its tightest price range (in percentage terms) in the first half of any year since its inception back in 1896. Price has...

Introduction Large bank fines for manipulating currency rates are in the news. One reaction is “great, the bank regulators are finally cracking down with heavy fines.” I have a different...

Canada – The consumer price index fell 0.1% in April, allowing the year-on-year inflation rate to drop to 0.8%, the lowest since November 2013. In seasonally adjusted terms, CPI also fell 0.1%,...

Dollar staged a comeback last week as boosted by stronger than expected core inflation reading as well as Fed chair Janet Yellen's speech. The 0.3% mom rise in core CPI in May was the strongest gain...

EUR/USDToday’s support: - 1.0958 and 1.0936(main), where correction is possible. Break would give 1.0907, where correction also may be. Then follows 1.0884. Break of the latter would result in...

In Sweden, the week ahead is full of interesting new information and tension is likely to build during the week, culminating with Q1 15 GDP (Friday at 09:30 CEST), where we have pencilled in an...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics released the April CPI data this morning. The year-over-year unadjusted Headline CPI came in at -0.20% (rounded to -0.2%), down from -0.07% (rounded to -0.1%) the...

Note: This commentary has been updated to include the Real Retail Sales data for April. Official recession calls are the responsibility of the NBER Business Cycle Dating Committee, which is...

I just watched a couple of clips from the video of this year’s Yale commencement—the awarding of honorary degrees to Janet Yellen and Elon Musk. Janet Yellen, with her marvelously warm...

The US dollar's recovery last week may not get the kind of fundamental support that medium and long-term investors would like to see to raise confidence that the two-month correction has run its...

Morning View:Good Morning Traders.We had a fair bit going on across markets late Friday night and into the weekend with story lines coming out of the UK, Europe and the US so take a seat, get out your...

A surge from the Dollar to close this past week has put many of the 'majors' on the verge a reviving a long-term trend. US Dollar Forecast– US Dollar Recovery Fighting Liquidity, Growth...