Market Overview

Currencies EUR/USD: The pair is trading in an upward channel on a 4 hour time frame. The next support is near the 1.1183 level and the resistance is at 1.1495. USD/JPY: The pair has broken is...

The FX market is about to blow up in the Fed's face, and there's nothing they can do about it. Foreign exchange (FX) is a zero-sum game: if one currency weakens, another must strengthen. Since the...

In an unusual development, sterling is outperforming today. It rose to a four-day high near $1.4230 on what appears to be mostly modest position adjustment in relatively subdued turnover. The $1.40...

UK CPI y/y release should provide plenty of market volatility if we were to get our surprise deviation. With Brexit referendum just around the corner, any sudden change in inflation reading will...

Yen opens the week mildly higher against other major currencies. Asian stocks are trading lower with Nikkei trading down -255pts, or -1.6% at the time of writing. Commodity currencies are also...

Global Economy I: The IMF Director’s Speech. It’s official: The New Normal is now the New Mediocre! Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the IMF, isn’t ringing the alarm...

An end to QE would be likely to be the end of the recent outperformance of linkers.Lessons from tapering in the US are not really encouraging. Sell linkers outright, for instance SGBi3108. No surprise...

European stock markets are expected to open slightly lower on Monday, following some mixed trade in Asia overnight and ahead of a quieter start to the week on the economic data side.We got the first...

Several Fed members are due to speak this week. While Yellen's last speech has already set the stage, as she put more weight on the downside than upside risks to her outlook, we will listen in...

On July 3, 2016 the new Market Abuse Regulation comes into effect throughout Europe, pursuant to 2014 legislation. The member states have transposed the MAR into national law. Stefan Hendrickx, of the...

Italy’s finance minister, Pier Carlo Padoan, wants to “ringfence” its troubled banks.Padoan called a meeting of the executives of Italy’s troubled banks in Rome on Monday. The...

Latest BBC business news headlines – “Martha Lane Fox joins board of Twitter” – “Brighton Pier sold for £18m” – Cameron “I could have dealt with...

Mainstream news outlets are already starting to use the phrase “economic collapse” to describe what is going on in some areas of our world right now. For many Americans this may seem a bit...

The recently released 103-page transcript of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Interview of Warren Buffett on May 26, 2010 provided some very interesting insights into the causes of the...