Market Overview

Deflation is not the end of the world As you will have heard on every news programme yesterday and in every newspaper this morning, the UK has slipped into deflation for the first time since the...

Market BriefDollar bulls received a boost from Benoît Cœuré - member of the Executive Board of the ECB - who announced the ECB will moderately front-load its purchases of euro-area...

US economic growth has slowed in recent months, but the deceleration to date remains well short of a tipping point for the business cycle, based on a broad set of published reports through April....

• Dollar continues to gain: the dollar continued to gain ahead of today’s FOMC minutes (see below). Yesterday’s better-than-expected US building permits and housing starts for April...

The US dollar extended its recent gains against the major currencies. The euro returned to its break-out level near $1.1060 after approaching $1.15 at the end of last week. In three sessions it has...

A better than expected GDP number in Japan and a surge to a 15 year high in the Nikkei 225 has had little influence on European markets this morning.It seems that In the absence of central banker...

EUR/USDToday’s support: - 1.1115, 1.1086 and 1.1070(main), where correction is possible. Break would give 1.1057, where correction also may be. Then follows 1.1034. Break of the latter would...

Regaining momentumHydrodec is on track to resume production at the Ohio facility in May, with a 50% expansion in nameplate capacity compared with December 2013. The acquisition of Eco-Oil in April...

Stronger than expected GDP data from Japan lifted Nikkei and sends the yen lower broadly. Q1 GDP rose 0.6% qoq versus expectation of 0.4% qoq, and compared to prior quarter's 0.4% qoq. The annualized...

The news that Britain’s inflation rate slipped below zero will focus attention on today’s Bank of England minutes as the market looks for new guidance on monetary policy. Meanwhile, the...

European indices are expected to pare yesterday’s gains early in the session on Wednesday having received no real direction from Wall Street or Asia overnight. Investors are also eyeing minutes...

It seems I’ve been writing a lot about Warren Buffett lately.Earlier in May I used one of his favorite valuation tools to determine if U.S. stocks are significantly more expensive than their...

Monday, Chicago Fed President Charles Evans gave a speech in which he said that he probably leaned towards making the first tightening early next year, as there is “no compelling reason for us...

The U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development have now published their findings for April new residential housing starts.The latest reading of 1.135M was well above the...