Market Overview

U.S. equities have been trending lower so far in March, and no sector has been immune to the selling. But the relative strength in healthcare stocks continues to stand out. Energy companies,...

The Australian dollar is trading higher today after the release of the latest jobless figures, which showed a slight fall in the unemployment rate.At 9.29am (GMT) the Aussie dollar was trading at...

In a recent Reuter's article, Dr. Richard Fisher of the Dallas Federal Reserve stated: "Sharp gains in the U.S. dollar are good for the U.S. labor market." This is not actually the case as I will...

The larger picture of increased currency volatility continued yesterday as EUR/USD carved out fresh 12 year lows and GBP/EUR ran higher before collapsing later in the session. There is very little...

The euro continues to weaken against the dollar falling below 1.06 on Wednesday pressured by uncertainty on whether Greece upcoming reforms will satisfy its creditors and as the new ECB easing...

We’ve all heard Benjamin Franklin’s quip that nothing in the world is certain but death and taxes. However, for a number of years now, income investors have relied upon a third certainty:...

Market movers today We expect US retail sales to have increased 0.2% m/m in February after declining 0.8% in January. Gasoline prices ground higher in February, which boosted nominal sales, while...

The latest positive surprises in euro area figures imply that we lift our already above consensus GDP growth forecast from 1.5% to 1.6% in 2015 and from 2.0% to 2.1% in 2016 (consensus 1.2% and 1.6%,...

Talking Points:Soft Retail Sales Data May Cool Fed Rate Hike Bets, Push US Dollar Lower NZ Dollar Soars on RBNZ Rate Decision, Aussie Recovers on Jobs Report A quiet economic calendar in European...

EUR/USDToday’s support: - 1.0474 (main), where correction is possible. Break would give 1.0443, where correction also may be. Then follows 1.0418. Break of the latter would result in 1.0393. If...

MARKET SNAPSHOT: UP NEXT: TECHNICAL ANALYSIS: Gold: Bearish but losing momentum. I have highlighted a potential Bearish Channel but this could just as easily turn out to be a Bullish Wedge. I...

EUR continues to collapse as USD broad currency index breaks out of 30-year downtrend.The euro continued its collapse yesterday as more and more market participants jumped on the trend. People were...

Looking at the FTSE, you can see that we found some stabilization during the day on Wednesday. Because of this, that is a market in proof been over what we had seen during the Tuesday session, and we...

New Zealand dollar recovers today after RBNZ left interest rate unchanged and indicated that it will stand pat till 2017. The RBNZ left the OCR unchanged at 3.5% in March and maintained a neutral bias...