Oil higher on expected demand Crude prices are rallying after major producers showed patience over how much to increase production going into the second half of...
How The BoE & UK Government Stoke The Housing Market Fire Authored by Nick Corbishley via WolfStreet.com, Net mortgage borrowing in the UK hit £11.8 billion...
Now that the first estimates of Q1 growth in the US, China, and the EMU, which account for around 70% of the world's economy, have been...
Futures Rebound Despite Global Margin Call Fears After initially dipping as much as -0.7% during the early Asian session on fears that the Archegos margin call...
ECB Preview: Will Verbal Intervention Finally Lead To Something More After touting the flexibility of its asset purchase program for preserving favorable financing conditions, the European...
The Mexican peso is struggling for direction against its US counterpart in the middle of the trading week amid mixed economic data. The peso recently snapped a multi-session losing streak after foreign exchange markets...
US dollar shows gains against G7 currencies The US dollar rebounded overnight on higher US yields, which coincided nicely with a short market, the greenback having...
Overview: Profit-taking weighs on equity markets, and the dollar is trading higher ahead of the weekend. Most Asia Pacific markets are still closed for the holiday,...
Overview: While equities continue to march higher, the dollar is softer amid position squaring ahead of the US jobs data. Gold has stabilized after yesterday's shellacking. ...
The overnight session was relatively non-descript for financial markets in the bigger picture. Equity and currency markets moved sideways, as did precious metals, with only energy...
Overview: The recovery from last week's equity slide continues today. In Asia Pacific region, Taiwan and India led with more than 2% gans. Stepped fiscal efforts,...
Most of the time, investors are focused on two V’s: value and volatility. However, two other V's will continue to dominate the month ahead for the investment...
In recent years, a heterodox model called “Modern Monetary Theory” (MMT) has gained adherents. For those who follow the policy debate in the media, this theory...
Powerful corrective forces continue to grip the market. After a large rally to start the New Year, the correction is punishing.
Overview: The steepest loss in US equities since last October is rippling through the capital markets in the form of de-risking. The rout is not over,...
USDCAD – BOC to Make Rates Announcement The Bank of Canada is widely expected to leave its monetary policy unchanged. Outlier opinions are... Read More... The...
Asian equities edge higher on stimulus story Incoming Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen made all the right noises as far as Wall Street was concerned at her...
Yellen to call for more stimulus to bolster economy The Financial Times reports that Treasury Secretary Nominee Janet Yellen, the Federal Reserve’s former head, will state...
Trade War? China’s pandemic-driven export boom continued into December, pushing China's trade surplus to a record high in the last month of 2020
Today, we are pleased to present a guest contribution written by Daniel Soques (University of North Carolina Wilmington). The views presented represent those of the authors alone...
Two down, two to go The month of compromise has delivered two so far. OPEC+ agreed on output targets for next year while the EU27 gave...
ECB Preview: Here Comes Another €500 Billion In QE Tyler Durden Tue, 12/08/2020 - 22:25 Last March, the ECB's then-brand new boss Christine Lagarde sparked a...
Futures Slide On Fresh Brexit Turmoil, US-China Tensions Tyler Durden Mon, 12/07/2020 - 08:01 After opening at a new all time high on Sunday evening following...
The Australian dollar did not show a clear trend today. The Reserve Bank of Australia left its monetary policy unchanged at its last policy meeting this year, as was widely expected. China’s...
Sweden Unexpectedly Expands QE By 40% Tyler Durden Thu, 11/26/2020 - 10:25 Back in 2017, Sweden made a mistake: the Governor of the Swedish Riksbank, Stefan...
Macroeconomic data released in Australia on Thursday was not good but that hardly affected the Australian currency. The Aussie was trading flat against all of its most-traded peers as trading was very...
Kiwi Soars After New Zealand Central Bank Asked To Add Home Prices To Monetary Policy Tyler Durden Tue, 11/24/2020 - 10:26 The New Zealand dollar soared...
Overview: The contrast between the eurozone and US preliminary PMI readings caught the short-term market leaning the wrong way, and the dollar snapped back after extending...
The Investment Climate and the Dollar
Asia is cautiously optimistic today