Market Overview

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...

NZD/SGDToday’s support: - 0.9720 (main), where correction is possible. Break would give 0.9692, where correction also may be. Then follows 0.9677. Break of the latter would result 0.9653. If a...

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...

Asian markets trade higher as pulled up by surge in oil prices. Nikkei is trading up 1.2% at the time of writing. WTI crude oil extended recent rally and took out 51 handle, heading to key medium term...

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...

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...

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...

It was a week of waiting last week, and that may be a short-term bullish harbinger for equity markets. Although the very mild three-week streak for the major winning streak came to a close, the market...

Energy Stocks Above Prior ResistanceWhen investors are more confident about economic and market outcomes, they typically prefer to own growth-oriented sectors, such as energy, over more...

The Brexit was a major subject of discussion throughout the first half of the year -- and for good reason. With the UK leaving the EU, the economic implications could be massive. Nonetheless, after...

Fed Head Janet Yellen is keeping alive the tradition of her predecessors, Messrs. Greenspan and Bernanke, by showing she is equally as blind-sighted to the bubbles central banks are blowing in the...

With less than one month to Election Day on 8 November, it is time to take the temperature of the election campaign. Prior to the first TV debate, the presidential election seemed like a close race...