Market Overview

by Pinchas CohenKey Events Dollar, Treasuries show signs of buying into Fed’s optimisitc outlook Yen confirms reversal from year’s risk-off trend Pound falls on Carney’s Brexit...

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Tuesday June 20: Five things the markets are talking aboutDespite the lack of economic fundamentals to use as a direction, the ‘mighty’ U.S. dollar remains better bid as investors look...

Economic activity weakened slightly in May, but it’s too soon to say if this is anything more than noise. The broad trend for the US was still solidly positive through last month and near-term...

The light economic calendar has cleared the field to allow officials to clarify their positions. Yesterday it was NY Fed President Dudley and Chicago Fed Evans who argued that economic conditions...

Market Drivers June 20, 2017 Carney- No rate hikes High yielders lead Nikkei 0.81% Dax 0.35% Oil $45/bbl Gold $1248/oz. Europe and Asia:AUD RBA MinutesEUR GE PPI -0.2% vs. -0.1%EUR CA 22B vs....

Bond yields are coming off the highs in China in a sign that the stress is easing and China may be taking measures to ease the pain of regulatory tightening. However, the effects of the tightening...

EUR/GBPToday’s support: - 0.8746, 0.8730 and 0.8708 (main), where correction is possible. Break would give 0.8679, where correction also may be. Then follows 0.8657. Break of the latter would...

One of the keys to sustainability in any investment is diversification. Even if you're dealing with extremely risky assets, just having an even mix of them is enough to bring your level of risk down...

For the 24 hours to 23:00 GMT, the AUD declined 0.38% against the USD and closed at 0.7597. LME Copper prices rose 0.6% or $31.5/MT to $5687.0/MT. Aluminium prices rose 0.03% or $0.5/MT to...

Dollar rose mildly overnight but strength was so far limited. Comments from Fed officials were mixed and provided little guidance to the greenback. Meanwhile, Japanese Yen trades broadly lower on...

FTSE +10 points at 7533 DAX +60 points at 12948 CAC +20 points at 5330 Euro Stoxx +16 points at 3595The US dollar and the US yields improved on Federal Reserve (Fed) member Dudley’s optimistic...

It is an important week for the Chinese stocks. The Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI), will decide whether or not the Chinese A-shares will finally be included in its international stock...

It is a relatively quiet day on the data front with the exception of Sweden, where a host of different labour market indicators and new debt projections by the debt office are due (see the Scandi...