Market Overview

Here’s a hoot. A Wall Street Survey shows Economists Expect December Rate Hike.Why? Because economic uncertainty will allegedly vanish between September and December. A consensus is forming...

RCM Alternatives, a Chicago-based asset manager specializing in managed futures products, has published a new white paper asking the naive-seeming question, “Why Alternatives?”The paper...

Over the past two weeks, ZeroHedge has chronicled another dramatic rise in the TED Spread. What does this mean and what might this portend for gold? Hmmm...those are excellent questions.And what is...

In an interview with the Washington Post overnight, San Francisco Fed President John Williams gave his point of view on why the Fed should raise interest rates in 2016.So, just cutting to the chase...

Wolf Richter penned a very interesting piece entitled: This Is When The Jobs “Recovery” Goes KABOOM: It will eventually impact the labor market. Here’s why: despite the hiring that...

US crude has posted sharp gains on Thursday, rebounding from losses seen on Wednesday. In the North American session, WTI/USD futures are trading at $43.19. Brent crude has improved to $45.61, as the...

After the Bank of Japan signaled for a modification of its monetary stimulus during its previous meeting, market players will closely watch the decision of the bank at its September meeting.The Bank...

EUR/USD – extended its gains and nearly reached the 1.12 level. We can see there is a downwards trend line in place since June 24. Today we will be getting some data, but tomorrow will be more...

Implied FX volatility has fallen sharply over the summer. According to our FX volatility valuation model, the low level of volatility has created buying opportunities.In this document, we take a...

Forex News and EventsRussia: Heading towards another rate cut in September The ruble is following its upside momentum, currently trading below 65 ruble for a single dollar note. Things are looking up...

The US dollar has found steadier footing today after trading heavily yesterday. There are two main themes. The first is sterling’s heavy tone. After closing the North American session 0.5%...

Saudi continues pumping oil at record high levels in a world inundated by millions of barrels of excess oil per day, despite its squeezing finances. The barrel of WTI retreated to $41.40, near its...

While the majors calendar is very thin, today marks another Scandi inflation day with the monthly inflation release in Sweden due. We expect both CPI and CPIF to print 0.2pp below the Riksbank's...

GBP/CHF Today’s support: - 1.2645, 1.2628 and 1.2600 (main), where correction is possible. Break would give 1.2579, where correction also may be. Then follows 0.9970. Break of the latter would...