Market Overview

Last week’s review of the macro market indicators which heading into the February Operations Expiration Week, saw the equity markets came in with a weak move lower and then consolidation and...

After a terrible first several weeks of the year, global capital markets stabilized in the past week. Chinese markets re-opened after the extended Lunar New Year holiday and proved not to be...

It occurs to me that in public writing I tend to bludgeon people with macro fundamentals (like gold vs. positively correlated markets, yield relationships and even confidence in global policy makers),...

A calendar of key events in the Commodities Market for the week ahead.To read the entire report Please click on the pdf File Below

Some technicalsThe past week has been marked by a strong comeback in risk assets, with the key S&P 500 benchmark rising by around 100 points from its low on February 11. The fact that US stocks...

Analyzing history as a guide to the future is riddled with caveats, but if you’re mindful of the limitations there’s a mother lode of perspective waiting to be mined in the cause of...

Eurozone and US data will dominate the coming week as other nations enjoy a lighter calendar for economic releases for the next seven days. Japanese inflation and the G20 summit in China at the end of...

US stocks were declining on Thursday with S&P 500 index 0.45% down dragged lower by downbeat Wal-Mart (N:WMT) earnings data. 8 out of 10 index sectors closed in the red led by the energy sector...

U.S. futures are pointing to a relatively unchanged open on Friday, after indices ended a three day winning streak on Thursday with minor losses.We’re seeing similar losses already in Europe...

US CPI data is due out for January. In line with consensus, we estimate that CPI core rose 0.2% m/m in January leaving the annual growth rate unchanged at 2.1% y/y.EU-UK negotiations continue...

EUR/USD Current level - 1.1123 The bias here remains negative and crucial on the upside is still 1.1190. A violation of the latter will signal, that an uptrend towards 1.1375 is...

Asian markets are generally lower as crude oil pares gains. At the time of writing, Nikkei is trading down -360 pts, or -2.2% while Hong Kong HSI is down -120 pts, or -0.6% and China SSE (L:SSE) is...

European markets are expected to open marginally higher on Friday to round off what has so far been a very good week for equities.I think a number of factors have contributed to this week’s...

This morning, the British Prime Minister, Mr David Cameron will hold intensive meetings with other European Union leaders.The discussions have been portrayed as a high-stakes meeting which will define...