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Many of the pundits around today probably don’t remember when the Fed funds rate was 15%, the Prime Rate was 20% and the 30-Year Treasury would fluctuate from 8% to 15% in one year alone, as it...
Speculators appeared mostly interested in reducing exposure in the run-up to the US jobs data and the Italian referendum. They liquidated gross longs in the currency futures market and covered shorts....
The US dollar is finishing the year on a firm note. It rose to a 10-month high against the yen before the weekend. The euro remains within spitting distance of the bottom of its two-year range near...
Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying said he won’t seek a second term. Korea’s parliament voted 234-56 to impeach President Park. Czech National Bank raised the possibility of...
Last week we forecasted a correction was underway and that we saw support at S&P 500 2190, where price was at right then. See here. Well, clearly that was indeed the correct assessment for support...
Markets had a bit of an "eye-of-the-storm" feeling Friday as traders continue to digest Thursday's ECB meeting.As we noted Friday, the central bank opted to extend its Quantitative Easing (QE) program...
We expect the Fed to raise the Fed funds target range 25bp to 0.50%-0.75% from the current 0.25%-0.50% at the FOMC meeting next week, in line with both consensus and market pricing.Since everyone...
In order for a society to be sustained social relations have to be reproduced. Yet now neither the middle class nor capital are able to reproduce themselves.This may be the single greatest challenge...
It’s been a quiet start to the final trading day of the week, with the absence of any major economic events giving investors the opportunity to mull over the ECB announcement on Thursday and...
The euro has stabilized after extending yesterday's ECB-driven losses. The euro's drop yesterday was the largest since the UK referendum to leave the EU. Ahead of the weekend, there may be some room...
The United States’ trade deficit rose in October due to a decline in exports, a stronger dollar and an increase in domestic demand have limited the amount of exports. Exports slummed almost 2%...
CurrenciesEUR/USD – dropped sharply after the ECB decision to extend QE until the end of 2017, although the size of the program will be brought down from the current €80 billion to €60...
Oryzon presented more granular data from Phase I/IIa in acute leukaemia at the American Society of Hematology (ASH) meeting after the positive headline results had been announced earlier....
European stocks opened flat. The FTSE showed signs of exhaustion following a four-day rally.The pound retraced losses against the US dollar and the euro, as the UK’s trade deficit shrank to...
Much of what we said above about financials holds true for another sector that has rallied strongly in the month since the election: industrials.As of this writing, industrials as a whole have rallied...