Market Overview

Is promising to create 25 million jobs an unrealistic whopper by a fellow who tends to tell whoppers? Or is President Donald Trump simply thinking big, as he is wont to do? In a 9/15 campaign speech...

In the next week, Germany, China and Europe are reporting their Balance of Trade (BOT) indicators.Germany is about to report for its December 2016 Trade of Balance on Thursday, Feb. 9. After a huge...

European stocks mixed, FTSE 100 lowerCorporate earnings results, election fears and a dip in the oil price all muddled in to make for mixed markets on Wednesday. Banking profits before earnings Bank...

Some say the idea that things happen in threes comes from Macbeth, a tragedy written by Shakespeare. Far be it for us to comment on the link between a 400-year old play of greed, ambition and lust for...

Economists and market analysts around the world will never forget the roller coaster financial activity of 2016. This was a year of great geopolitical uncertainty that was highlighted by the Brexit...

If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, American’s exorbitant privilege might be at risk with broad implications for the U.S. dollar and investors’ portfolios. Let me...

Caution continues to rear its head in financial markets on Wednesday and yet, a day after setting record intraday highs, US indices are poised to open a little higher once again.Political risk remains...

First-quarter GDP growth for the US is expected to pick up after a sluggish Q4, according to forecasts from several sources. It’s still early in the quarter, but the preliminary estimates for...

by Eli WrightIn the face of ongoing global political and economic uncertainty, as well as falling oil prices after yesterday's API weekly crude oil stock release showed a bigger than expected build in...

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Market movers today There are no major events for the market today, so focus is once again on any news from the new US administration. The market will also scrutinize any polls from France that could...

Each year in January, April, July and October, the INSEE releases a survey on investment expectations (nominal terms) in the manufacturing industry (covering this way 25% of productive investment in...

Nearer term dollar index outlook:In the Jan 31st email, once again said that there was still no confirmation of a bottom, but that lots of positives suggested that an important low may finally be...

USD/SGDToday’s support: - 1.4152, 1.4130 and 1.4119 (main), where correction is possible. Break would give 1.4108, where correction also may be. Then follows 1.4086. Break of the latter would...