Market Overview

Without a doubt, one of the most important inputs in a successful outcome for your investment portfolio is time. In the finance world, this is usually expressed as your “time frame” or...

When inflation alarmists want to convince everyone the dollar is about to become worthless, they post this chart of the CPI:CPI - Urban Consumers - All Items - Index Inflationists claim that is a...

Last night’s Federal Reserve meeting was one of the least anticipated in a long time. This was with good reason, it turned out in the end. In a particularly brief statement, the FOMC maintained...

One more post on Greece, possibly not the last one. Markets are more worried about what is going on and there is more and more talk about the possibility of and exit of Greece from the euro area. As I...

That Grand Narratives based on short-term trends are often wrong should not surprise us.Two of the most durable and least-questioned narratives of the past 15 years are: 1. The world is becoming...

The Australian dollar is back below the US80¢ mark today after yesterday's statement by the US Federal Reserve and reports that the Reserve bank of Australia is considering an Interest rate...

Any failure to meet austerity commitments to the European Central Bank, International Monetary Fund and European Commission next month by Greece will see the next tranche of loans not being paid by...

Market movers today Market focus continues to be on Greece and US earnings reports that have weighed a bit on risk appetite in the past days. On the data front, German inflation is expected to...

The details of the announced QE programme were much clearer than we are used to when the ECB launches new measures (see Draghi Delivers: ECB's bazooka in detail and market implications , 23 January....

Financial expert Eric from Fx77 Binary Option indicates that it’s not a smart move to choose Call for USD Index at high position 95.00. For other products such as non-USD currencies and precious...

After a precipitous decline from US$100/bbl in September 2014, brent crude oil has settled into a trading range of $48-$50 in the last couple of weeks. The pressure appears to remain to the downside,...

1. the quality of being patient, as the bearing of provocation, annoyance, misfortune, or pain, without complaint, loss of temper, irritation, or the like. 2. an ability or willingness to suppress...

EUR/USDToday’s support: -1.1258 and 1.1194 (main), where correction is possible. Break would give 1.1182, where correction also may be. Then follows 1.1154. Break of the latter would result in...

Dollar recovered mildly overnight after FOMC kept rates unchanged near zero and reiterated that "it can be patient in beginning to normalize the stance of monetary policy." The statement overall...