Market Overview

What is most noticeable about the CFTC Commitment of Traders report for the reporting week ending November 15, is what is not there: Activity. With the Australian dollar being the sole exception, we...

The US dollar has recorded its best two-week performance since Reagan was President. There has been a sea change. Although the low in global yields took place before the US election, and deflation...

Key Fundamental Forex Events for the Week of November 14th through November 18th The following table lists the key economic data and other events that came out during the week of November 14th through...

It looks that South Florida real estate developers are viewing Donald Trump as president-elect as a "boon" to the area's real estate environment. It doesn't help to add to the fact that he is rooted...

Interest rates have soared dramatically over the last two weeks. The 10 year yield has jumped from 1.80% to 2.35%. This is the equivelant of two interest rate hikes from the Federal Reserve in less...

Original post-US futures are pointing lower on Friday, tracking similar moves in Europe where indices have spent the week dipping between gains and losses to find themselves broadly where they...

Since the US election, the dollar has been on a tear. Pullbacks have been brief and shallow. There are powerful trends in place. The euro has fallen nearly five percent over the past ten sessions,...

We’ve written several times about the plight of smaller banks under the post-crisis regulatory regime of the Dodd-Frank Act. We’ve heard personal accounts from the managements of small and...

Since the global financial crisis in 2008 there has been numerous banking reforms to help clean up the banking sector calamity. A combination of banking factors like subprime lending, mountainous...

GBP/SGDToday’s support: - 1.7614 and 1.7601 (main), where correction is possible. Break would give 1.7587, where correction also may be. Then follows 1.7566. Break of the latter would result...

Retail sales overlooked as markets focus on next week’s budgetYesterday’s retail sales figures showed significant promise: year-on-year sales grew by 7.4%, the most rapid pace for 30...

The US dollar gained against all of its G10 peers, as the FOMC Chair Janet Yellen hinted at an upcoming Federal Reserve (Fed) interest rate hike. The Fed action in December is now seen as almost...

CurrenciesEUR/USD – keeps on dropping quite fast and while only a few days ago I said that parity is still far away, we are approaching it relatively fast if we continue in this pace. The lowest...

There are no significant key economic data releases due today, but there are speeches expected from the ECB's Mario Draghi and Bundesbank's Jens Weidmann as well as several speeches from the Fed's...