Market Overview

In line with expectation, the Fed increased the fed funds target range from 0.00 – 0.25% to 0.25 – 0.50% and signal that the following pace of increase will be gradual. Based on the median...

Gold has posted slight losses on Thursday, as the base metal trades at $1063.67 per ounce at the start of the North American session. In economic news, economic events are back in center stage after...

The Philly Fed's Manufacturing Business Outlook Survey is a monthly report for the Third Federal Reserve District, covers eastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and Delaware. While it focuses...

US stocks rallied for the third session in a row after Federal Reserve raised interest rates for the first time since 2006. The dollar weakened with the live dollar index showing the ICE US dollar...

Forex News and EventsMexico: following in the footsteps of the Fed Following the Fed’s rate decision we were also expecting the Banxico to increase rates by 25 basis points to 3.25% despite no...

The Federal Reserve yesterday raised its target range for the Fed funds rate by 25 basis points to 0.25% to 0.50%–the first hike in nine years. The reasoning, as the Fed explained, is the...

Major U.S. benchmarks rallied on Wednesday following the Federal Reserve’s announcement that it would raise interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade, signaling the central...

Risk Assets higher on Fed DecisionIn the wake of the FOMC decision, base and precious metals along with oil prices are all trading lower and the UK 2-Year yield has fallen below 0.6%. Despite all the...

It should be a very interesting couple of weeks for the markets as investors globally react to the Fed’s decision to raise interest rates for the first time in almost a decade. That said, the...

Overall, we believe Fed and Chair Janet Yellen succeeded in being neither too hawkish nor too dovish, which is reflected in the muted market reaction.The median 'dots' now signal four hikes in both...

We expect Norges Bank (NB) to leave rates at 0.75% but it has admittedly become a very close call - in our view close to even odds - amid the renewed collapse in the oil price, which could trigger...

• Fed hikes rates: Ends zero-rate era The FOMC unanimously voted to increase the target range of the federal funds rate by 25bps and emphasized that the future hikes will be gradual. In the press...

The dollar was moderately higher against the other major currencies on Wednesday, after the release of strong U.S. housing sector data, as investors grew cautious ahead of the Federal Reserve's highly...

So many bedrock beliefs of investors have been turned on their heads or flatly disproven over the course of this cycle. Never was this more true than with inflation and inflation expectations. And...