Market Overview

The fears expressed by economists recognizing a pattern in the consequences experienced by China due to dwindling global trade health are close to being realized, according to drastic numbers coming...

Core inflation has already broken above 2%. This happened when Oil was imploding. As well as Commodities in general. Why does this matter? Because core inflation is ABOVE 2% at a time when commodity...

Early gains for U.S. stocks that came courtesy of strength in energy issues on the continued rally in crude oil prices lessened late in the day with stocks finishing mixed, as a lowered growth target...

USD/JPY continues to lose ground this week, as the pair trades at the 113 line in the North American session. In Japan, the markets were treated to a host of weak releases. Current Account posted a...

Municipalities issued building permits worth $6.4 billion in January, a decline of 9.8% from the previous month. This decline, which followed a 7.7% increase in December, was largely due to lower...

Chinese exports grabbed the headlines today showing a decline of 20.6% y/y in February. Bloomberg wrote 'China's export slump deepened' and other comments have been very negative too.However, the big...

While not infallible, there are many correlated assets in financial markets that help us to understand where several of them are headed. In the forex market, that is very obvious when it comes to the...

Market BriefThe JPY strengthened further against the US dollar amid better-than-expected GDP figures. The Japanese economy contracted -0.3%q/q in the December quarter last year, beating median...

Key quotes from the report: Bank of England Governor Carney has, for the most part, declined to give a strong opinion in either direction on the economic impact of the upcoming EU membership...

European markets are trading lower ahead of the upcoming ECB meeting. Although, this meeting is expected to unleash another round of quantitative easing for the euro zone and hopes are high that...

By all accounts China’s industrial growth is slowing down. GDP only grew 6.9% in 2015, the weakest growth in 25 years. Industrial output rose less than 6%. Slower growth should indicate a...

Chinese President Xi Jinping is about to tell millions of government workers: “You’re fired.”Reuters reported last week that China plans to lay off between five and six million state...

AUD/JPYToday’s support: - 83.54 (main), where correction is possible. Break would give 83.23, where correction also may be. Then follows 83.02. Break of the latter would result in 82.74. If a...

December in MarchMarkets are becoming increasingly focused on Thursday’s European Central Bank meeting as the next big policy hurdle for Mario Draghi and the ECB’s Executive Council to...