Market Overview

It’s been a slow start to trading in Europe on Thursday and US futures are currently trading relatively flat, as markets pause ahead of today’s ECB monetary policy decision which will...

The US dollar is trading lower against all the major currencies as the corrective forces continue to hold sway. The euro rose to nearly four-week highs in the European morning, briefly pushing through...

Stocks have soared ever since Donald Trump stunned everyone by winning the presidency, but Trump’s victory was far from a landslide mandate. Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by over 2.6M...

Our economy is a mystery to almost everyone, including economists. Let me explain the way I see the situation:(1) The big thing that pulls the economy forward is the time-shifting nature of debt and...

Japan is currently undergoing one of the most significant central bank policy reconstructions in recent times. The Bank of Japan are ambitiously striving for 2% inflation while broadly expanding their...

by Eli WrightRisk-on sentiment is back with a vengeance. Global equity markets were mostly higher yesterday, with Wall Street in particular setting new records. Yesterday, European markets all...

The quantitative easing (QE) programs that started in the second quarter of 2015 remain controversial, especially in Germany. The sums involved are substantial: since the start of the first program,...

President-elect Donald Trump’s tax plan will be the “largest tax change” since Reagan, Steven Mnuchin told CNBC in a 11/30 interview. That was the day after Trump officially cast the...

GBP/CADToday’s support: - 1.6650 (main), where correction is possible. Break would give 1.6622, where correction also may be. Then follows 1.6597. Break of the latter would result 1.6572. If a...

US equities surged to new record highs overnight as the Trump rally continued. DJIA gained 297.84 pts, or 1.55%, to close at 19549.62. S&P 500 jumped 29.12 pts, or 1.32% to close at 2241.35. Both...

Market movers today Today, all focus will also be on the long-awaited ECB meeting. We expect the ECB to announce a six-month extension of its QE programme and maintain monthly purchases at EUR80bn....

The TRY has been hit by a perfect storm of negative domestic developments and foreign factors, including a stronger USD, higher oil prices (affecting the current account negatively) and higher US...

Australia suffered its worst GDP decline since the financial crisis in 2008. Economists expected a decline of 0.1% but Third Quarter GDP Declined 0.5%.Trade data subtracted 0.2 percentage points and...

ECB likely to leave rates unchanged while extending QE program US jobless claims on track to fall, moving closer to a 43-year low Will the mood in the US consumer sector hold on to recent gains? The...