Market Overview

Market movers today In the euro area, ECB president Mario Draghi will testify before the European Parliament's Economic and Monetary Committee at 15:00 CET. In addition, ECB chief economist Peter...

We have the pleasure of sharing our views for the rest of the year in our Credit Outlook. We include in-depth comments on 13 different sectors across our coverage with selected bonds for each sector...

The markets gained 0.2 pc for the week but what was most impressive was the recovery after the Fed announcement of interest rates not rising for a considerable period of time. Let us see what has...

Monday has almost nothing in the way of economic announcements, with only the Existing Home Sales coming out of the United States, and the HSBC Manufacturing PMI numbers coming out of China. The...

Last week was an incredible week for the United States stock market. On Monday, I wrote a post on the anyoption.com blog that explained what could happen after Wednesday, which all depended on what...

“I always liked those moments of epiphany, when you have the next destination.” - Brad PittLarge-cap stocks made new all-time highs as emerging markets and small-caps failed to continue...

Looking backCreditTightened across the US and Europe, with Asia price action being a bit more mixed. Interesting to note that UK 10 years are now tighter than US 10 years, 2.541% compared with 2.575%...

It has been almost a year since taking a look at the Beveridge Curve. In the earlier posts we noted the curve compares the unemployment rate with the job vacancy rate. The job vacancy measure we have...

The dollar made further gains on Friday as expected, although without much intensity. Equally, the strength in USD/JPY began to wane and if it sees much more downside will see it release its grip on...

The week ahead is sandwiched between last week, which featured an FOMC meeting, the launching a new four-year funding scheme by the ECB and the Scottish referendum, and the week after this which sees...

While we see a great deal of media coverage of Ukraine-related geopolitical risks, there hasn't been sufficient discussion about the dire economic and fiscal conditions the nation is facing. Writing...

GoldWeekly Moving AveragesThe December gold futures contract closed at 1217. The market closing below the 50 day MA (1289) is confirmation that the weekly trend momentum is bearish. A close above the...

We have the pleasure of sharing our views for the rest of the year in our Credit Outlook. We include in-depth comments on 13 different sectors across our coverage with selected bonds for each sector...

Market movers ahead PMIs are on the calendar for next week. We expect the Chinese HSBC/market manufacturing PMI to decline to 49.4 in September and at the moment it looks like the manufacturing PMI...