Market Overview

How steep can SEK yield curves get?Keep an eye on price expectations in the NIER survey To read the entire report Please click on the pdf File Below

The rise in USD/CNY mainly reflects a stronger USD. The CNY basket is broadly unchanged lately. However, we expect a further rise in USD/CNY to 7.3 in 12M. The move will be a red flag for Donald Trump...

Consumer prices accelerated again in October 2016, with the overall CPI calculating a 1.64% inflation rate. That is up from 1.46% in September, and the highest since October 2014. The reason is energy...

Single-Family Housing activity drives employment, commodity prices, retail sales and professional services. When it corrects this sector’s impact is significant. When it expands, it impacts the...

Well, so it seems… I had opted for a pullback - which was seen but nowhere as deep as I thought we’d reach. However, the trend has resumed and that should be good. Having seen dollar...

The Consumer Price Index for Urban Consumers (CPI-U) released Thursday morning puts the year-over-year inflation rate at 1.64%. It is substantially below the 3.79% average since the end of the Second...

U.S. dollar stays strongThe diverging monetary policies between the United States and Canada are such that we continue to think that our currency is vulnerable. As our Chief Economist and Strategist...

Financial markets may have all but priced in a rate hike from the Federal Reserve in December but Donald Trump’s election victory has slightly altered the conversation among traders from the...

Forex News and EventsMarkets expecting ECB hints for 2017 This afternoon, the ECB will publish its account regarding the October policy meeting. Markets are still waiting for some hints about the...

Turning To Debt To Sustain Living StandardThere was an awful lot of cheering about the recent retail sales report which showed an uptick of 0.8% which beat the analyst’s estimates of 0.6%....

DOW – 54 = 18,868SPX – 3 = 2176NAS + 18 = 529410 Y – .40 = 45.41OIL – .02 = 2.22%GOLD – 3.40 = 1225.00The Dow Jones Industrial Average had posted record closes for four...

The US dollar is trading with a heavier bias today as its recent run is consolidated. The euro is trying to snap the eight-day slide that brought it to nearly $1.0665 yesterday, the lows for the year....

FOMC Chair Janet Yellen will testify regarding the US economic outlook before the Joint Economic Committee in Washington DC.Yellen will speak for the first time after the mispriced Trump victory moved...

Donald Trump’s unexpected election victory sent shockwaves across the globe and hardest hit were major tech stocks which stumbled due to uncertainty. Throughout Trump’s election campaign...