Market Overview

Despite the agreement reached at the end of February, the idea of a Greek exit – or 'Grexit' – from the euro zone has not been eliminated. The economic and political costs of a Grexit are...

US retail sales are expected to rise 0.5% in Thursday’s February report vs. the previous month, according to The Capital Spectator’s median point forecast for several econometric...

Yesterday was a trying day on U.S. stock markets, as the diverging direction of monetary policy in the United States compared to the rest of the planet drove investors towards profit-taking. With the...

So now we have the latest inflation data (February) and Prospera inflation survey data. CPIF inflation, which is the policy guiding measure, came in at 0.86% y/y versus a Riksbank forecast of 0.74%...

Chinese data for January and February released this morning was markedly weaker than we expected across the board. Data for industrial production, fixed asset investment and retail sales for January...

• We lower our target on short EUR/USD to 1.00 from 1.05 • EUR/USD to undershoot near-term on ECB ‘hot potato’, Fed • We are reviewing our EUR/USD forecasts Strategy We...

In a week that is offering very little original news flow, the ECB is really driving trade across the asset classes through the launch of its quantitative easing program, or the Public Sector Purchase...

Summary: When will the next recession arrive? Economists, like most professionals, sell certainty. They assure us that data has meaning and can be understood. Sadly that’s reliably true only...

Dollar continues soaring, euro continues collapsing Nothing new here – the dollar just keeps on soaring and the euro just keeps on collapsing. EUR/USD and the DXY index are back at levels last...

The start of the week hasn’t been the most interesting from a news perspective, but the start of the ECBs quantitative easing program (which started on Monday) has sparked some incredible moves...

The extra liquidity provided by the European Central Bank (ECB) could pose risks to the region’s financial stability, according to Mario Draghi, the central bank’s president.Addressing an...

Fixed Income Analysis, edited by Barbara S. Petitt, Jerald E. Pinto, and Wendy L. Pirie, is part of the CFA Institute Investment Series. Now in its third edition (it was originally published in 2000),...

EUR/USDToday’s support: - 1.0648 and 1.0622 (main), where correction is possible. Break would give 1.0599, where correction also may be. Then follows 1.0573. Break of the latter would result in...

The dollar continues to march higher against the euro on Tuesday, posting new 11 ½ year highs as uncertainty over the Greek debt reforms, the new Eurozone bond buying program and rising...