Market Overview

New research from Danske Bank Markets New Swedish pension money is disbursed once a year to the funds within the Swedish pension system (the so called PPM flows). This year the money will be...

New research from Danske Bank Markets This presentation gives a short overview of the Federal Reserve's policy tools - in particular, the tools likely to be used to steer the fed funds rate into the...

Oil is plunging again, this time in the wake of OPEC’s inability to limit its members’ production. The US dollar, meanwhile, is up on the divergence between Fed tightening and ECB/BoJ/BoC...

So what exactly happened last Thursday? The markets (including the dollar) crashed ...and this was not supposed to happen? It's actually quite easy to understand if you see what they did was "only a...

The full implications of OPEC’s failure to cut production have been coming to bear on the oil price and energy stocks. The dramatic selloff in the energy sector seen in the S&P 500 overnight...

The Swiss National Bank (SNB) is due to meet this week to set monetary policy. The market consensus is for no change to policy, despite the economic indicators. Does that just set us up for another...

Brazil’s gross domestic product fell by a record 4.5% year-on-year in the third quarter, confirming expectations that Latin America’s largest economy is in for its worst recession since...

Crude oil prices are exhibiting all the signs of an increasingly difficult funding environment. The front end of the futures curve is being bent dramatically in relation to even close maturities just...

The pace of economic news picks up today, including the monthly update on UK industrial activity. Later, two US reports will receive wide attention ahead of next week's Federal Reserve meeting, which...

On Monday, the price of U.S. oil dropped below 38 dollars a barrel for the first time in six years. The last time the price of oil was this low, the global financial system was melting down and the...

Goofy action in the stock market is nothing new, but last week’s luau was something special. Monday was normal enough – the last day of November often sees some selling – but the...

The Labor Market Conditions Index (LMCI) is a relatively recent indicator developed by Federal Reserve economists to assess changes in the labor market conditions. It is a dynamic factor model of...

The EM starts the week in the familiar position of coming under pressure. The strong US jobs report has all but cemented a Fed lift-off this month, helping the dollar to claw back some of its post-ECB...

After last week’s major economic data in the developed world, including the highly-anticipated ECB meeting and US Non-Farm Payroll report, some traders may shift their focus back to emerging...