Market Overview

Yen recovers mildly today after BoJ left monetary policies unchanged and offered a slightly more upbeat view of the economy. The central bank held the annual pace of monetary base expansion at JPY 80T...

The Friday leading into the bank holiday weekend can quite often be a little quieter and see lower trading volumes, with traders turning it into an extended break. Given some of the data being...

Daily BriefingCurrencies EUR/USD: The pair is trading below its downward trend line on a 60 minute time frame. The next resistance is at 1.1435 and the support is at 1.10. USD/JPY: The pair has...

The U.S. markets once again closed at record high last night on the back of the disappointing US economic data. Bad news is a good news for the markets, as this has pushed the expectations that the...

Market Movers In the euro area the most important event today is the German Ifo sentiment for May. The German surveys so far released for May including yesterdays PMIs have been softer suggesting...

Looking at the markets for the Friday session, the Consumer Price Index numbers out of the United States are probably going to be the sole market moving event, and that of course will affect both the...

Frances Coppola has a good post over on her site explaining her view on why banking really shouldn’t be boring. But I want to expand on her thinking because this is an important operational...

Time to position for lower rates at the short end of the curve Continued weak global inflationary pressure. Riksbank CPIF forecast wishful thinking? The Riksbank will have to do more. Q1 GDP on...

Summary: First quarter GDP growth was stronger than originally estimated. When adjusted for seasonality, the economy grew 1.8%, which is consistent with the average growth rate over the past three...

Easter shift affected the quarter “This was a unique quarter with several external factors impacting Dollar Tree and other retailers. In particular, a calendar shift with Easter falling two...

The minutes of the most recent FOMC meeting released yesterday largely reflected the official statement from April 29. Much like the BoC, which remains uncertain about the impact recent shocks will...

FX Quant Strategy provides a quantitative overview of the currency market, including several valuation tools and monitors, focusing on the FX options market. This week we recommend two FX option...

A sell-off into the end of the session on Wednesday appears to be feeding into stock futures this morning after the Federal Open Market Committee minutes once again showed policy makers brushed off...

The slowdown in China continues as the HBSC Flash PMI shows Output contracts at strongest rate in just over a year. Key PointsFlash China Manufacturing PMI™ at 49.1 in May (48.9 in April)....