Market Overview

Forex News and Events Equities higher as financial markets reopen Financial markets are slowly waking up and starting 2017 on a firm footing as traders returned to their desks. Asian equities opened...

Although we mostly write about the energy infrastructure sector, we also run an investment strategy designed around low volatility stocks. There’s generally less to say on this sector – we...

The US dollar is mixed. After a soft start in Asia, where Tokyo markets were closed, the dollar recovered smartly against the euro and yen. The dollar-bloc and sterling are firmer. Sterling's earlier...

The expected risk premium for the Global Market Index (GMI) held steady in December, remaining at the highest level in over two years. GMI, an unmanaged market-value weighted mix of the major asset...

For the umpteenth year in a row, mainstream economists and analysts are once again planting the seeds of hope for a return to stronger GDP growth. The White House has hoped for it for the last...

Keep your eyes on the US2017 has begun with the dollar slipping lower but with limited gains for emerging markets, as idiosyncratic risks affect markets. Oil has been taken higher by Kuwait delivering...

Aussie and Kiwi open the year mildly higher as lifted by China data. The Caixin PMI manufacturing for China rose to 51.9 in December, much better than expectation of being unchanged at 50.9. That's...

CurrenciesEUR/USD – the EUR lost almost all its gains from last week yesterday, but today it is moving up a little bit, even as the USD is strengthening, so we can expect this to be short lived,...

What lies ahead for investors this year will surprise almost everyone. Yet I hear almost no one talking about it... and even less doing anything about it.A quick look back at 2016 will show just what...

The year 2016 was a very interesting one for the global stock market. Early on in the year, we saw big declines as the Chinese economy fell apart, sending the global market into a panic. Nonetheless,...

German unemployment stable as jobless population shrinks again in December US ISM Manufacturing Index projected to reach its highest level in 2016 The Atlanta Fed’s revised nowcast should...

There were five significant position adjustments by speculators in the currency futures market in the last full reporting period of the year, ending on December 27. That many participants cut...

There are four things investors should know as the New Year begins. First, it has already begun with several PMI reports already reported. Second, in the last two weeks of the December, the trends...

Today, we have another quiet day in terms of major economic data releases.In the US, the ISM manufacturing index for December is due out today and we expect the index to show a similar picture as the...