Market Overview

The UK’s retail sales excluding auto fuel tanked by 2% month-on-month in December, heavily missing the analysts’ estimate of -0.4%. Apparently, Christmas hasn’t been prosperous for...

FTSE flat at 7209DAX -23 points at11573 CAC -9 points at 4832 Euro Stoxx -6 points at 3284 It is the inauguration day for Donald Trump. Trump’s aggressive fiscal stimulus plans have been priced...

EUR/CHFToday’s support: - 1.0718, 1.0698 and 1.0676(main), where correction is possible. Break would give 1.0648, where correction also may be. Then follows 1.0623. Break of the latter would...

Trump hours away from the Oval OfficeAnd so a day that few thought would ever happen has arrived and in a little under 12 hours Donald J Trump will take the oath of office and be sworn in as the 45th...

Britain’s Prime Minister, Theresa May’s speech at Lancaster House, London this week spelled out for anyone who hasn’t been listening for the last couple of months exactly what her...

Dollar remains in red for the week, except versus Yen and Canadian Dollar, as markets await Donald Trump's inauguration. Treasury Secretary nominee Steven Mnuchin had sent USD higher. As he suggested,...

We discuss the $20 Trillion National Debt, the $5 Trillion Central Bank Balance Sheet and the 105 Percent Debt to GDP Ratio in the context of the environment that Donald Trump is going to inherent as...

You may have worked hard to build a business, purchase investment property or have a nest egg for security, but there are many not so rare but scary stories about assets that disappear rapidly. Your...

Bonds have risen in a 35-year bull market. That bull market looks tired and probably peaked in July of 2016.The U.S. Dollar Index recently hit 14-year highs. Has the dollar finally peaked? Has it...

My mentor Sir John Templeton (founder of the Templeton Funds) used to say that the four most dangerous words in investing are, “It’s different this time!” The chart below looks at...

The combination of stronger US economy data and a dovish Draghi has seen the US dollar go bid. The price action lends more credence to our anticipation that the dollar's downside correction, which...

The fate of the US economy will come into focus in the next few months. As president-elect Trump turns into President Trump, the rhetoric will change. What will happen? No one knows for sure.The US...

On a sunny day in San Francisco, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said that the Fed is nearing its binary goal of price stability and full employment. The Fed Chair’s views on the US economy...

EUR/CHFToday’s support: - 1.0698 and 1.0676 (main), where correction is possible. Break would give 1.0648, where correction also may be. Then follows 1.0623. Break of the latter would result...