Market Overview

Market movers today Spanish and German inflation will provide information about the impact of the decline in the oil price during October. In line with our above-consensus forecast for euro-area...

Germany’s economy will grab the macro headlines in Europe today with the monthly update on unemployment data. Later, we’ll see a new report on business sentiment for Europe from the...

Dollar rebounded strongly overnight as Fed struck a more hawkish than expected tone in the FOMC statement. Fed announced to end the so called QE3 as widely expected and left rates unchanged near zero....

The Fed surprised today by issuing a much more hawkish statement than expected. - First, the Fed decided to strengthen the language on the labour market by now pointing to solid job gains and also...

SEK to outperform on growth, valuation after the Riksbank Lower commodity prices and CPI to weigh on RBNZ, NZD Our models and technical indicators all point to a lower NZD/SEKStrategy Yesterday the...

UP NEXT: USD: With the slightly less Dovish statement from FOMC statement and the inflation and employment targets needing to be met before hinting at interest rate hikes, we can be assured traders...

As expected, the FOMC ended its purchases of additional securities at the end of October. There are five noteworthy points in the statement this time. First, the FOMC painted the picture of a...

There has been a bit of confusion about what yesterday's FOMC announcement means with respect to Quantitative Easing. The statement says that " the Committee decided to conclude its asset purchase...

■ As expected, industrial production rebounded strongly in September, 2.7% m/m, the biggest increase in 8 months. It follows a 1.9% decline in the preceding month. In Q3, production actually...

The statement by the Fed that the QE stimulus programme has now ended generated quite a stark comparison in the reactions in the Forex market compared to the U.S. stock market. Clearly the...

The Federal Reserve’s October monetary policy statement just hit the wires and traders generally got what they were expecting from the world’s largest central bank. As widely anticipated,...

It’s Fed Day.  We will be focusing on the FOMC’s words at 2:15 this afternoon.Let’s flash back to last Fed day. When we write, we know what we mean to say. And when we read what...

The ECB’s bank lending survey for October 2014 showed that credit standards for all loan categories (consumers, enterprises and housing) were eased again. This was also the case in the previous...

The Australian dollar is sharply higher today after a round of disappointing economic news from the US yesterday saw Investors ditching the greenback. In today’s trading, the local currency is...