Market Overview

Asian markets are generally higher today, following the recovery in US as risk aversion waned. The Turkish central bank more than doubled its interest rates, from 4.5% to 10.0% and triggered a rebound...

EUR/USD Today’s support: - 1.3635 and 1.3614(main), where correction is possible. Break would give 1.3593, where correction also may be. Then follows 1.3565. Break of the latter would result in...

Back in July, I wrote that the key risk to a Fed taper was a rising risk premium and the health of emerging market economies was a key indicator of how the market might re-price risk (see It's the...

The Latest Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index was released this morning based on data collected through January 16. The 80.7 reading was above the 78.1 forecast of Investing.com and 6.1 above...

  The Conference Board’s survey of consumer confidence does a good job of picking up trends in the jobs market. I particularly like to monitor the “jobs plentiful” response...

Celent has put out a new report on “Trends in China’s Wealth Management Industry.”The author of this report, Hua Zhang, contends that the industry there has reached a turning point,...

Most of our indicators for credit risk including the swap-government bond spread, the spread between onshore and offshore money market rates and CDS-premiums for Chinese banks have all edged higher in...

The market appears to be transfixed by recent developments, and quite unsure of which direction to favor. The structures that are developing are extremely complicated and as such the risk of error or...

I'm flummoxed, right now, because I am bearish on gold but bullish on the companies that mine the stuff.So I’m hanging on to my SPDR Gold Trust (GLD) short – my only substantial short...

AM Analysis – “European stock futures rise ahead of the open” – Lee Mumford European stock futures rise ahead of the open, rebounding slightly from the previous day’s...

Emerging markets stalled their declines as certain central banks raise interest rates to curb the rising inflation and others prepare to do the same. The Japanese Yen falls as risk aversion fades. The...

The Durable Goods and Apple (AAPL) disappointments notwithstanding, emerging market centric worries are a bit less pronounced today following actions by central banks in Turkey, Argentina and India....

CSS Daily FX Update and Outlook for 29th January 2014Update:US Dollar Index – (+0.1%)• The currency markets on Tuesday remained quite range bound ahead of the key FOMC meeting on Wednesday....

Over the next 24 hours, we are looking forward to announcements from 3 central banks. The first will be the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey (CBRT) who is widely expected to raise interest rates...