Market Overview

Economic worries for the global economy are again taking a toll on sentiment these days, but the US macro trend shows few signs of stress, based on data through September. It remains to be seen if the...

This Great Graphic was posted in the Financial Times at the end of last week.  It based on EPFR flow data that Bank of America Merrill Lynch distributed.  It shows a record $5.7 bln...

Monday’s a light day for economic reports, but the crowd's still hungry for new macro perspective after last week's roller coaster ride in the capital markets. Today's main event for satisfying...

Daily BriefingCurrencies EUR/USD: The pair has formed a complex reverse head and shoulder pattern on a 240 minute time frame with the projection of 1.29. The next support is at 1.2496 and the next...

Last week was really remarkable. So much action to go nowhere! Ten-year Treasury bonds had a 10-sigma day Wednesday and over the week had a 42 bp range, yet they finished Friday at 2.20%, compared to...

Market BriefAsian markets opened the week with good risk appetite. Nikkei 225 surged 3.98% on news that the GPIF will increase allocation on domestic stocks from 12% to 20-30% (RTRS); Hang Seng and...

It was an action packed weekend with lots of announcements of reforms coming in along with the election results. The path India travels down now has irrevocably been altered and we seem to be headed...

Currencies The euro (EUR) rebounded up to 1.2836 where it formed its resistance before dropping back to 1.2735 against the US dollar (USD). The single currency swing between losses and gains as the...

In Sweden, the week ahead has one interesting piece of data: the September labour force survey (Thursday, 09.30 CEST). In Sweden the past week was really about one thing only - the very low...

Market movers today Few things on the agenda today. No tier 1 data up for release so focus will again be on central bank talk and market sentiment. The ECB's Coeuré is scheduled to speak but...

EUR/USDToday’s support: - 1.2736 and1.2708(main),where correction is possible. Break would give 1.2688, where correction also may be. Then follows 1.2647. Break of the latter would result in...

On Monday, we feel that there is very little to move the markets as far as announcements are concerned, at least not until we get to the Chinese late in the session. With that, it’s very likely...

It is becoming clear that overcoming the challenges in the fight against Ebola is related to the size of an economy. The very poor countries face the greatest difficulty. The African countries hit...

Once again we awake to an array of seemingly contradictory news and reports across the spectrum. Whether it be Ebola, the financial markets, or just plain ordinary life in general. It seems everything...