Market Overview

Trust me, I'm just as tired of writing about the so-called "Trump Trade" as you are reading about it, but the fact remains that investors' perception of the 45th US President's competence is one of...

As I discussed this past weekend: “Immediately Wall Street spun this very negative news [failure to pass health care reform] into the ‘positive’ as noted by Margaret Patel via Wells...

Dow Retreats Eighth Session In A RowUS stocks closed lower on Monday after President Donald Trump withdrew his proposed health-care law designed to replace Obamacare. The dollar weakened: the live...

Central bankers will be the focus of investors’ attention today, as we keep an eye on a speech by Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz starting at 10 a.m. in Oshawa and comments from four...

US equity markets are poised to open slightly higher on Tuesday, building on the recovery we saw throughout yesterday’s session after indices started the week lower in response to Donald...

If you’re looking for an optimistic forecast for the government’s first-quarter GDP report that’s due next month, the New York Fed’s model is just the ticket. The bank is...

US Consumer Confidence should dip in March, but stick close to a 15-year high Recent weakness in US equities suggests optimism may have gone too far Doubts about the reflation trade are weighing on...

Yesterday was very much a day of consolidation for currency markets ahead of increased event risk later on the week. Here in the UK the PM’s spokesman confirmed that at 12.30 BST tomorrow the...

The United Kingdom is under the spotlight, as the country prepares to start the Brexit process on Wednesday, March 29th.As such, the Brexit shenanigans keep the headlines busy, the latest being the...

This Great Graphic from Bloomberg is a weekly bar chart of MSCI Emerging Market equity index. In H2 15 and H1 16, it carved out a head and shoulders bottom that we identify on the chart. We also drew...

CHF/JPYToday’s support: - 111.94 and 111.60 (main), where correction is possible. Break would give 111.39, where correction also may be. Then follows 111.15. Break of the latter would result...

FTSE +29 points at 7322DAX +65 points at 12061 CAC +21 points at 5038 Euro Stoxx +16 points at 3453 The U.S. dollar pared losses after recording the largest pullback since Donald Trump’s...

It is a fairly thin data calendar today.In the US, we are due to get Conference Board Consumer Confidence for March. The preliminary numbers from the University of Michigan for March indicate that...

As the yield curve flattened out almost in a straight line from late 2013 until July 2016, it became common to suggest the historical relationship between inversion and recession. While that may still...