Market Overview

The most important release today is the jobs report for January. The labour market tightened significantly in 2015, which was the main reason why the Fed raised the target rate in December. The...

DOW + 183 = 16,336SPX + 9 = 1912NAS – 12 = 450410 Y + .02 = 1.88%OIL + 2.41 = 32.29GOLD + 13.20 = 1143.20Activity in the services sector slowed to a near two-year low in January. The Institute...

As bad as the month of January was for the global economy, the truth is that the rest of 2016 promises to be much worse. Layoffs are increasing at a pace that we haven’t seen since the last...

[This post originally appeared on Seeking Alpha last week. I enjoy a wide following there, and I appreciate the opportunity to participate in their annual series. As I note at the beginning of the...

The January Nonfarm Payrolls report is due Friday morning at 8:30 EST (13:30 GMT) with expectations centered on a headline print of 192k after last month’s stellar 292k reading. My model...

The Riksbank is set cut 10bp to -0.45 % next week and to flatten the repo rate path considerably.No FX intervention but be prepared for inter-meeting action. It is set to be 'defensive' and only if...

The single dissenter common to the last several monthly Monetary Policy Committee meetings, Ian McCafferty, has until today hawkishly opined that the UK economy is ready for higher rates despite...

FX Quant Strategy provides a quantitative overview of the currency market, including several valuation tools and monitors, focusing on the FX options market.This week we recommend the following FX...

Forex News and EventsBoE to stand by Today it’s BoE Super Thursday meeting will likely be a non-event as the Monetary Policy Committee will most likely vote to leave the key rate unchanged at...

The US dollar remains under broad pressure after yesterday's sharp decline. Neither dovish comments by ECB President Draghi, nor the Reserve Bank of New Zealand have managed to reverse the gains of...

US stock markets advanced on Wednesday reversing early losses as oil rebounded. The dollar weakened after disappointing economic data strengthened the case for delay of Federal Reserve interest rate...

There is alot of action going on this week in the different areas of the markets. The PM complex has been rallying, the US dollar tanking and the stock markets trying to make up their mind about which...

The Bank of England may offer some verdict on future monetary policy but also reveal the latest economic forecasts via the Quarterly Inflation Report today. The BoE is expected to stand pat, yet there...

Forget the hikes, forget the cuts‘Super Thursday’ is back like some bloated policy nightmare that seemed to be a good idea at the time but has since lost its lustre. The Bank of England...