Market Overview

Monday’s an unusually quiet day for scheduled economic releases, which provides an opportunity to focus on three of the major currency pairs. The general theme, of course, has been dollar...

Market movers today euro area finance ministers will today meet at 14:30. The main topic will be recommendations to member states on fiscal and economic policy. There will be particular attention on...

In Sweden, we expect (CPI) inflation to have come close to 0.4% m/m (-0.1% y/y) and the Riksbank's operational target CPIF-inflation (CPI with fixed mortgage rates) to have reached 0.5% m/m (0.6%...

EUR/USDToday’s support: - 1.2673, 1.2643, 1.2622 and1.2600(main), where correction is possible. Break would give 1.2573 and 1.2549, where correction also may be. Then follows 1.2521. Break of...

I'm finally on the way back from a long yet excellent business trip in Australia. This week’s piece will be slightly briefer than the norm as I have a flight to catch shortly – however...

Looking at the session on Monday, there’s almost nothing to pay attention to economic announcement related. However, keep in mind that it will be a shorter than usual day as far as liquidity is...

“The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.” – Charles H. Dow, 1900Well then – that’s one way to prove that conditions have changed.You want to...

Expectations of Bank of Japan accelerating securities purchases at the October meeting have fallen considerably. Majority of economists now expect any type of change in policy to take place no earlier...

The underlying theme in the foreign exchange market is the divergence between the US and UK on one hand and the euro area and Japan on the other. That divergence, however, may not explain the...

The selloff in the Large Cap stock indexes in recent weeks coincided with mounting evidence of a global economic slowdown, which I have been monitoring since the start of the year. This development...

Would that be lovely? At least that's this missive's flow, so let's go!We start with stocks as they're the sizzle at the moment from which we'll then segué via the Bond into Gold. Perhaps...

Whenever we get a decent selloff in the market, I brace myself for the next intervention – – because we all know that’s what’s coming. Although it doesn’t constitute any...

This past week Nobel Laureate Professor Paul Krugman OpEd: Even if Republicans take the Senate this year, gaining control of both houses of Congress, they won’t gain much in conventional terms:...

Market movers aheadFocus will be on domestic demand in the US this coming week, when both retail sales figures for September and construction activity data are due. We look for a slight fall in retail...