Market Overview

Currencies The euro (EUR) continued its bullish momentum by gaining ground against the US dollar (USD) and climbed up to 1.3870. The single currency remains strong as the European countries are...

EUR/USD kept on declining after German Trade numbers missed desires. The euro moved by 8 focuses to exchange at 1.3788. Germany's exchange surplus limited in February as fares declined yet imports...

US stock markets staged a strong rebound overnight after the dovish FOMC minutes suggested that rate hike is not imminent. Both DOW and S&P 500 drew strong support from 55 days EMAs and closed...

Yesterday I was flipping through the annual report of a mid sized regional bank that I’ve followed and respected for a long time and something interesting caught my eye.  Since 2009, this...

The HILO breadth index was developed  by RecessionALERT for detecting short and  medium-term S&P 500 stock market peaks in advance. It deploys the following daily breadth data taken...

Steeper EUR Curve vs Flatter US CurvesOne of our core views for 2014 is that the EUR curve should steepen from the long end. We base this view on the expectation of continued macro improvement and on...

Forex:AUD/USD: 0.940 capped as resistance and A$ awaits today's employment figures to see if it can hold on to 5-month highs; Currently trading just above daily pivot to suggest swing low in place for...

The financial-media discussions regarding high-frequency trading have reached a fevered pitch. No pun intended as the igniter of this public relations flame is famous author of “Money...

• The UK's future could be very bright• UK Q1 GDP may be as high as one percent• UK to lead G7 in monetary tightening“UK economy showing first rays of sunshine” –...

Tension between the West and Russia is at an all time high as accusations fly about recent demonstrations in eastern Ukraine. The Kremlin has been named as the driving force behind the protests, which...

This Great Graphic comes from the Visual.ly blog. The data comes from the World Bank and the Canadian International Council.  It shows three different ways of thinking aboutof energy...

The Economist reports that “money is leaving emerging markets for riskier bets at the investment frontier.” So-called frontier markets are the new new thing in the frantic search for hot...

MARKET SNAPSHOT:  Asia Roundup:  A risk-on sentiment carried over to Asia seeing the NZD appreciate off the back of good Australian data. The USD/CAD and USD/JPY remained near...

Another quiet day on the global agenda. FOMC minutes tonight might be interesting given the upward adjustment to the Fed rate projections at the March meeting. This was also when the 6.5% threshold...