Market Overview

The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) Housing Market Index (HMI) is a gauge of builder opinion on the relative level of current and future single-family home sales. It is a diffusion index,...

“China orders banks to keep lending to insolvent provincial projects.” That front page headline in the May 16-17 weekend edition of The Financial Times shines a spotlight on one of...

US 2-Year The US 2 year yield currently trades in a larger range between 1.671- 0.395, both encompass the 5 and 10 year averages at both range extremes. The current price at 0.54 sits just above the 1...

Daily BriefingCurrencies EUR/USD: The pair is trading above its upward trend line on a 60 minute time frame. The next resistance is at 1.15 and the support is at 1.128. USD/JPY: The pair has broken...

Last week’s disappointing economic news has raised new worries about business cycle risk for the US. It’s still premature to assume the worst, but it’s clear that there’s still...

EUR/USDCurrent level - 1.1388 Today's outlook is bearish below 1.1415 resistance, for a corrective slide towards 1.1290 support zone....

For more than four years, the US recovery has been weak. In the eurozone, after the debt crisis broke, the economy fell back into recession and has emerged from its double dip with only limited...

The FTSE 100 has made some tentative moves higher in early trade this morning led by the utilities sector and better than expected results from Babcock International. It should not be a surprise that...

European markets are trading higher on the first trading day of the week after not being able to produce as stellar performance as the US markets did, last week. The S&P 500, set another record...

• Greece: the endgame approaches It seems that Greece is rapidly approaching the day of reckoning. The country must find EUR 1.5bn in the first three weeks of next month in order to avoid...

Talking Points:NZ Dollar Slumps as Markets Bet on Most Dovish RBNZ Outlook Since 2009 Aussie Dollar Fails to Hold Gains After Comments from RBA DepGov Lowe US Dollar Corrects Higher After Dropping the...

The US economic outlook is worsening, as evidenced by preliminary GDP numbers for Q1, 2015; even this month’s Eurozone numbers were better. The rise of the US dollar, though seeming to herald an...

Talking Points: US Dollar Pauses to Digest Losses After Hitting 4-Month Low S&P 500 Signals Indecision at Familiar Range Top Resistance Gold Working to Extend Rebound, Crude Oil Treading Water ...

Market BriefUS Industrial Production for April was released on Friday and came in below expectation, at -0.3%m/m verse 0.0% consensus. The University of Michigan’s preliminary sentiment index...