Market Overview

The news headlines are saying the U.S. housing market is witnessing robust growth and flipping homes for profit is back.While many are now saying there is growth in the U.S. housing market and that it...

On Tuesday, the American market finished the trading session with a small decrease. This week is rather quiet from the point of the publication of macroeconomic statistical data, so the participants...

The Beat Goes On, Or Does It?As the indices make new highs, interest rates have turned and are once again beginning to creep up. It certainly appears to be a strong indication that interest rates have...

I’m in over my head with Eugene A. Durenard’s Professional Automated Trading: Theory and Practice (Wiley, 2013), so consider this post more of a notice than a review. Durenard describes...

U.S. markets tracked lower overnight coming off record highs. With the lack of data, this was profit taking but in Asia, markets fell thanks to a disappointing statement from China’s Third...

Currencies The euro (EUR) managed to gain a small part of previous week’s losses, against the US dollar (USD). The single currency gained more than 140 pips within two days and is now trading...

Market Snapshot: With the UK CPI coming in less than expected yesterday GBP/USD reacted with a -95 pip drop within 25 mins of the announcement. Coming in at 2.2% versus the 2.5% expected suggests...

Is there such thing as too little inflation? To listen to some economists the answer is an emphatic “no!” Fed chief Ben Bernanke certainly doesn’t believe in the concept of low...

On Thursday, the ECB may have attracted the headlines with a surprise interest rate cut, but what crept under the radar was the news that the US GDP expanded in the 3rd quarter, growing annually at...

Dollar Fully Retraces ‘No Taper’ September Plunge The Dow Jones FXCM Dollar Index closed above 10,600 for the first time since September 17 this past session. That means that the greenback...

A quantitative run through of the Swedish fixed income market, starting with the Riksbank and money markets before moving on to government and mortgage bonds.To Read the Entire Report Please Click on...

NOK/SEK Supported By Relative Yields‏On the back of today’s inflation shock (not least for the Riksbank) we have revised our call on the Riksbank and now expect a 25bp rate cut in December....

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The Chicago Fed's National Activity Index, which I reported on yesterday, is based on 85 economic indicators drawn from four broad categories of data:Production and Income Employment, Unemployment and...