Market Overview

Various Fed presidents have been yapping the last two weeks about rate hikes. The market is starting to look convinced. Meanwhile, GDP estimates by the Atlanta and New York Fed staff have been sinking...

Forex News and EventsBoE could praise the devalued pound "A few days after the flash crash which sent the GPB/USD below 1.2000 before bouncing back, it is alarming that no concrete cause has been...

USD/CNY has jumped higher to close to 6.72 after the market opened again following the Chinese holiday last week. The move has gained some attention as the 6.7 level was seen as an important one that...

The US dollar is bid against all the major and most emerging market currencies. An important driver is the backing up of US rates. The two-year yield, which is particularly sensitive to Fed policy is...

The Brent oil contract jumped to its highest level this year overnight after Russia said it was prepared to join an OPEC supply deal after it is finalised in November. Brent trimmed some of its gains...

The song remains the sameYesterday’s session was rather calmer than Friday, however the story remained the same. The market’s weary of buying the pound, even at these depressed levels, as...

The main release today are the German ZEW expectations. Yesterday, Sentix investor confidence surprised on the upside and we believe we could see the same picture for ZEW expectations as it should be...

Guest post by David Llewellyn-Smith Yesterday Citi produced a new index which pinned the Australian property bubble at 16 year highs: Bubble trouble. Whether or not we label them bubbles, the...

European equity markets are expected to open a little softer on Tuesday, with traders continuing to eye moves in oil, the pound and the yen, as well as the latest economic sentiment surveys from the...

Before Twitter blew up Friday afternoon, the Department of Labor did post the monthly Jobs numbers in the morning…A Non-Farm Payroll gain of +156k was about as exciting as your typical library...

Since the Fed’s QE program largely tapered at the end of 2014 (note: the Fed still used interest on its mortgage holdings to buy more mortgages), the size and volatility of the Federal Reserves...

Germany’s ZEW economic sentiment survey is on track to tick higher US small business sentiment to rise despite sharp decrease in small-firm job growth Will Fed’s Labor Market Conditions...

U.S. stocks finished higher to start the week, with a rise in crude oil prices lending support to the energy sector, and as the markets digested last night's second U.S. Presidential debate. The U.S....

Anyone with rudimentary knowledge of good economic theory can explain why government price controls are a bad idea. It boils down to the fact that the optimum price is the price that naturally...