Market Overview

With bearish momentum increasing and stocks testing key support levels in recent days, one of the biggest questions on your mind may be whether or not recent price action is merely a normal bull...

EUR/USDToday’s support: - 1.3713, 1.3691, 1.3680and1.3657(main),where correction is possible. Break would give 1.3633, where correction also may be. Then follows 1.3612. Break of the latter...

MARKET SNAPSHOT: Asia Roundup:  A subdued session that awaited the BoJ monetary decision which, as expected, remained unchanged. We may have to wait until FOMC minutes are released on...

There are no big market movers today. The UK releases industrial production for February, which is expected to show a moderate rise of 0.3% m/m. In the US the NFIB small business optimism index...

US futures are set to continue where they left off yesterday. The fact is that investors are finding enormously problematic to invest in the stock market when they look at the valuation table. There...

Slow deteriorationIn a less favourable macroeconomic and macro-financial backdrop for emerging countries, the weaknesses of the Brazilian economy are becoming increasingly apparent. Inflationary...

Progress on the eve of electionsTo face up to difficulties, the Indian government has taken short-term measures rather than true in-depth reforms. External vulnerability has diminished sharply, but...

After four months of domestic and geopolitical crisis, Ukraine is engaged in an arm wrestling with Russia, through the involvement of the US-EU. The territorial integrity of the country after the...

External liquidity squeezeArgentina is experiencing sharply slowing economic growth and rising inflation. Foreign-exchange reserves fell considerably last year, forcing the authorities to proceed to a...

For both cyclical and structural reasons, economic growth has been depressed since 2012 and is likely to hold below its long-term potential in 2014. Budget and current account deficits are still high...

The beginning of the year was marked by two major events: the vote on the new constitution and the formation of a technocratic government. Although the route to elections finally seems to be opening...

The US dollar is broadly lower. The ongoing strength of the dollar-bloc has been joined by the euro, sterling and the yen. Now that the dust has settled from last week’s two big events, the ECB...

The economic recovery that began in 2013 is expected to continue in 2014. Exports will benefit from the rebound in activity in the United States while domestic demand will be driven by public policies...

As a world trade and financial centre and a key base of services for China, Hong Kong’s small economy has one of the highest degrees of financial and trade openness in the world and more than...