Market Overview

AM AnalysisGlobal equities are set to close out another good week today Save for any dramatic hiccup, global equities are set to close out another good week today. Overnight, Asian benchmarks traded...

Having sent a mixed message for some time, the ECB is increasingly signalling it is ready to take action. Since the February meeting, it has worked on the 2016 inflation forecast - a crucial input to...

Market Commentary Despite continued Emerging-Market wobbles, the credit markets have been rather stable during the past week. Looking back at February, corporate senior issuance volume comfortably...

Swedish Q4 GDP came in much higher than we anticipated and, as we suspected/feared, inventories were an important factor accounting for about half of the rise in GDP. However, in spite of that, we...

Risk aversion comes back via China News that the IMF was on its way to Ukraine with a USD 15bn rescue package calmed the markets during the European and US days yesterday and brought back some...

Currencies EUR/USD: The pair is above its 100 day moving average on a 60 minute time frame. The next resistance is at 1.3772 and the support is near the 1.3619. USD/JPY: The pair has broken out of...

EUR/USD Today’s support: - 1.3680, 1.3656 and 1.3633(main), where correction is possible. Break would give 1.3615, where correction also may be. Then follows 1.3592. Break of the latter would...

We have a strong conviction of additional easing from the ECB. Medium-term inflation will be below target and, in the current monetary policy regime, deviation from the price stability target is...

Centre of attention moves to Crimea This week there has been a sharp increase in geopolitical tension on the back of the violent in recent weeks and particularly since the Ukrainian parliament voted...

Today’s data calendar may appear heavy, but I doubt it will provide the guidance markets are hoping for. The markets are still trying to adjust to the emerging market sell-off and the...

The S&P 500 index finally broke its resistance last night and closed at its record high after a few attempts. This optimism is filtering into the European markets which are poised to finish the...

The new Fed Chair Janet Yellen thinks the economy will revive in the spring. “It’s really quite a range of data that has been soft recently,” she told the Senate Banking Committee...

Yesterday, the US stock market finished the trading session with moderate growth. What is more interesting is that the Standard & Poor’s 500 managed to break record highs, finishing the...

Social mobility, or the lack thereof, has been a hot topic of late. James Surowiecki summarized the recent findings of a team of American economists in a recent New Yorker column: economic mobility...