Market Overview

In Tuesday’s preview, we noted how traders might look at Wednesday’s FOMC minutes as staler than Grandma’s cereal after the market volatility and mixed economic data we’ve seen...

New York Forex Report: Equity markets shrugged off Asian session weakness to rip higher over the European morning as risk sentiment improves . The moves are partly driven by oil, which has regained...

One step forward, one step back. Residential construction activity was softer than expected in January while industrial production rocketed skyward after falling in each of the previous three months,...

Iran said on Wednesday it would resist any plan to restrain its oil output as fellow OPEC ministers tried to persuade the country to join the first global oil pact in 15 years.Talks in Tehran between...

The Japanese yen flexed some muscle on Wednesday but was unable to consolidate these gains, as USD/JPY trades at the 114 line in the European session. In economic news, it’s a busy day in the...

The Russian Saudi agreement on a production freeze woke other producers up. OPEC President Mohammed al-Sadi is meeting in Tehran with ministers from Iran, Venezuela and Iraq. The market is expecting...

US stocks ended higher on Tuesday while oil declined despite an agreement between Saudi Arabia, Russia, Qatar and Venezuela to freeze output if others do the same. The dollar strengthened mostly due...

EUR/NOK . Although the NOK is substantially undervalued from a long-term perspective, the short-term outlook continues to be tied closely to how the economy is doing, to oil price developments and to...

• Oil deal depends on Iran’s cooperation The oil ministers of Iraq, Iran and Venezuela will meet in Tehran today to discuss a potential oil output freeze. The meeting follows an agreement...

The hectic moves in the financial markets give little visibility to investors who clearly prefer to sit on cash positions. According to the BAML February Fund Manager Survey, investor cash balances...

A fairly uneventful session in Asia, with S&P 500 futures starting to roll over somewhat, although the market still feels like it can push to the February high of 1940 (1947.2 in the cash market)....

Today we get the minutes from the FOMC meeting of 26-27 January. This will give us a broader insight into the different views of the FOMC members. It could attract some attention as Yellen's testimony...

Market BriefIn spite of an improving risk environment, equity indices kept moving lower during the Asian session as the PBoC set the USD/CNY fixing higher to 6.5237, up 0.16% compared to yesterday....

Investment by Norton Reamer and Jesse Downing (Columbia Business School Publishing, 2016) is a sweeping history, organized both chronologically and thematically. Just to give an idea of the...