Market Overview

With now less than 50 days until the US Presidential Election, markets and voters are tuning in. After the Fed's decision is announced Wednesday, investors will look ahead to the first Presidential...

It came as no surprise that the Federal Reserve maintained the federal funds rate after its September meeting. After months of speculations, the U.S. central bank lauded the improvement in the economy...

Federal Reserve officials decided not to increase the US central bank’s interest rate on Wednesday at the end of a two-day monetary policy meeting. The move was highly expected by market...

Despite a slow start to the month, the major domestic indices have recovered in kind and now sit in the middle of their consolidation range. In this video, I look at areas of the market that are...

On Thursday morning the American Association of Individual Investors released its Sentiment Survey showing a 3.1 percentage point decline in bullish sentiment to 24.8%. The bullish sentiment reading...

U.S. Federal Reserve needs additional evidenceTo no great surprise, the U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) left its key rate unchanged yesterday, while taking care to reiterate that it will have to increase...

FDAX:In the hourly chart we can see two opposing, relevant trends, whereby the small trend is facing downwards and the two large ones are running upwards. As expected, the gap from last Friday was...

As expected, NorgesBank (NB) this morning left the sight deposit rate unchanged at 0.50% .The revised rate path suggests a 40% probability of a later rate cut , which was very close to our...

The Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged yesterday, which Janet Yellen insisted wasn’t because the central bank is downgrading its outlook on the economy. Quite the contrary, Fed Chair...

EUR/CADThursday’s support: - 1.4603 and 1.4580 (main), where correction is possible. Break would give 1.4552, where correction also may be. Then follows 1.4531. Break of the latter would result...

The US dollar has lost another 0.5% against most of the major currencies today, as Asia and Europe respond to the Fed's decision. There are few exceptions to this generalization. The Norwegian krone...

Fed pivot to DecemberLast night’s Fed meeting went pretty much as the market expected with the dollar slipping a tad in the aftermath. Overall if the mission was to ensure the market will keep...

Market movers todayWe expect an unchanged key rate at the MPC meeting at Norges Bank today. In June, Norges Bank indicated an almost 100% probability of a cut in September but the risk outlook has...

The FOMC maintained the Fed funds target rate at 0.25%-0.50%, in line with consensus and market pricing, although a few analysts called for a rate hike. Looking at the rate decision, there were three...