Market Overview

• Russia/Ukraine issues a risk to ranges • Bank of Canada ambiguous • Yellen speech a wild cardIt's the middle of a shortened holiday week and the currency markets are lacking a...

A snapshot view of yesterday’s events from the New York - London session...FED Chair Lady Yellen now has the markets wondering about how they join the dots.  BoC keep interest rates...

The latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statisticsshows an uptick in consumer price inflation for the month of March. Separately, estimates by the Cleveland Fedshow that inflation expectations...

The ECB received another set of disappointing inflation reports today. For some time now the central bank has been betting on the fact the declining inflation figures were driven by food and energy,...

Housing is a particularly seasonal industry, and the spring selling season, which starts to ramp up in March is typically the busiest time of year.  Because of the seasonality, housing data...

As the events in Eastern Ukraine unfold, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard wrote about the risks of a an American-Russian confrontation:The United States has constructed a financial neutron bomb. For the past...

Treasury managers across the planet for multinational corporations are scurrying about this week in preparation for an event that rarely happens during the year -- a four-day holiday weekend. It is...

I find the following charts to be disturbing. These charts would be disturbing at any point in the economic cycle; that they (on average) depict such a tenuous situation now – 58 months after...

The Federal Reserve is mulling a new set of tougher banking rules to boost the odds that the financial system will remain sufficiently liquid when the next crisis strikes. It’s a worthy goal,...

MARKET SNAPSHOT:  ASIA ROUNDUP: Chinese GDP up 7.4% m/m but has slowed down compared to this time last year of 7.7%; Industrial production fell short at 8.8% vs 9.1% expected;...

EUR/USD Today’s support: - 1.3788(main), where correction is possible. Break would give 1.3764, where correction also may be. Then follows 1.3747. Break of the latter would result in 1.3731. If...

Market movers today Focus continues to be on the developments in Ukraine after authorities in Kiev announced the start of an 'anti-terrorist operation' against pro-Russian separatists. In Europe...

Allow me to share an investment insight I recently received from self-made millionaire, Chris Camillo.Chris is the bestselling author who turned $20,000 into $4 million straight through the Financial...

The US dollar is firmer against the yen and dollar-bloc currencies, but is weaker against the euro and especially, sterling. Sterling has been lifted by an unexpected decline in the unemployment rate...