Market Overview

Since a major golf tournament just ended, perhaps it’s appropriate that Friday’s jobs data was right down the middle of the fairway.The question is whether slowing jobs growth in...

Market Overview: S&P 500 E-mini FuturesThe E-mini S&P 500 futures formed a weak follow-through bar after closing above the 20-week exponential moving average. While the move up since March 13...

Dollar firms as May rate hike seen more certain after another healthy gain in US jobsYet, overall reaction has been muted amid thin trading during long Easter weekendBut volatility set to return as US...

The US economy added 236K jobs in March, very close to the average forecast. The unemployment rate fell 0.1 percentage point to 3.5%, while the labour force participation rate rose from 62.5% to...

Next week starts on a quiet note as Monday is Easter Monday for most economies on our radar. That said, the calendar becomes heavier as the days pass by, with the spotlight probably falling on the US...

Nonfarm payrolls report coming up, early indicators flash mixed signalsMost markets will remain closed today, so FX is the main game in townWall Street recovers after another round of soft data...

As you can see in the chart above, there have been no gains for the S&P 500 for 12 months, and there have been no gains in the S&P 500 for 24 months. It is unchanged! As the old saying...

ISM non-manufacturing PMI disappoints, adding to downturn risksDollar gains despite Treasury yields extending their slideGold maintains ‘safe haven of choice’ statusS&P 500 extends...

After a weak February, markets rallied in March. U.S. markets were up by low single digits, while bond markets were in the same range. International markets also showed modest gains, with developed...

In a system maintained by ever-greater extremes, confidence erodes very quickly once the next extreme fails to move the needle. Many observers expect interest rates to fall back to zero as inflation...

OANDA Senior Market Analyst Craig Erlam highlights five things that he believes investors will be closely tracking over the next month. Original Post

(Wednesday Market Open) NASA announced the astronauts for next year’s planned moon flight earlier this week, but the countdown on Wall Street is already underway for this Friday’s jobs...

Assessing US recession risk isn’t getting any easier, but when it comes to cutting through the noise, I continue to rely on combining models for the single-best tool in the toolkit. To...

US job openings fall to the lowest since May 2021Wall Street slips as data revives recession fearsGold rallies above $2,000 as Fed pivot bets intensifyNew Zealand dollar rallies after RBNZ hikes by...