Market Overview

Another big week for the markets gets underway today with the Bureau of Economic Analysis releasing the latest inflation, income and spending figures for the US.Already this morning we’ve had...

The US real estate market has been sluggish in recent history, but the latest numbers hint that the sector may enjoy a stronger run of growth in the spring. The supporting evidence is still thin,...

Market BriefThe FX markets started the week in a subdued fashion with the USD slightly stronger verse G10 and EM currencies. In Asian equity markets, Chinese stocks were the big gainers with the...

The US dollar trended higher in Asia and early Europe, but the gains have been pared as the European session got under way, and the underlying trends remain intact. Global equities are also winding...

US personal consumption spending for February is projected to rise 0.3% vs. the previous month in today’s update (March 30), based on The Capital Spectator’s median point forecast for...

In this report I would like to show you some charts for Natural gas, oil and the Market Vectors Junior Gold Miners ETF (ARCA:GDXJ). First though, let's take a quick look at the US dollar and the euro...

The dollar was opening higher in Europe against almost all the G10 currencies and the EM currencies that we track even though Fed funds rate expectations ended the day lower Friday and bond yields...

European markets are trading higher this morning ahead of the Easter vocation. This will be without any doubt another extremely volatile week for the market as we have the mother of all data, US non...

EUR/USDToday’s support: - 1.0834 and 1.0806 (main), where correction is possible. Break would give 1.0780, where correction also may be. Then follows 1.0756. Break of the latter would result in...

Asian markets open mildly firmer as Nikkei 225 is trading 50 up at the time of writing while HK HSI is up more than 1%. The forex markets are steady ahead of a event packed and holiday shortened weak....

The Japanese yen and Swiss were the biggest winner last week as markets were hit by risk aversion. Dow Jones 30 suffered big weekly loss of -415 pts or -2.3% to close at 17712.66. S&P 500 also...

Monday’s a moderately busy day for economic news, including the first look at business sentiment data for March via the European Commission’s monthly estimate. Later, two US releases will...

Janet Yellen's speech on policy normalisation late Friday evening repeated many of the messages from the March FOMC meeting, see Highlights from Fed Chair Yellen's speech, 29 March.. Yellen repeated...

In Sweden, the two weeks ahead contain quite a few interesting sets of data, inter alia industrial orders and production and the National Accounts adjusted household consumption indicator. Other data...