Market Overview

The softer than expected core PPI and retail sales data have sent the US dollar to new session lows. It is not that the data has changed participants' minds about next week's FOMC meeting, where the...

The euro zone lost some of its momentum after data on Thursday showed that factory output had fallen to its lowest level since April 2010. The common currency traded at $1.3285 at 7:30 GMT on Friday...

Risk assets got more relief this weak and emerging markets in particular recovered strongly. We believe sentiment is still too low on emerging markets, although it is improving quickly following...

Macroeconomic stabilisation helps EMEA currencies The past couple of months have been very challenging for most Emerging Markets and for EMEA markets. However, we are beginning to see some real signs...

We expect a steep rise in CPIF inflation in the autumn: there is a risk of a considerable divergence relative to the Riksbank’s forecast. Over the past week, we have reached our profit targets...

Market MoversThe main focus today is US retail sales. We expect a decent report with growth of 0.3% in 'core' retail sales excluding cars and gasoline. August data for total vehicle sales (unit data)...

The complexity of global economies and the financial market can make it difficult to simply understand what’s going on, let alone make investment decisions based on the prevailing conditions....

The Indian economy's growth is set to slow down later in the year, according to official projections revealed by the country's government. It was announced that growth for the current financial year...

All eyes are now on the September 18 Federal Reserve Open Market Committee’s (FOMC) decision to taper now or later and the German elections on September 22. Note that the state election in...

CurrenciesThe euro has found resistance twice at 1.3324 against the US dollar . The pair is now trading around 1.3270 ahead of the quarterly European employment release, due at 9:00 GMT. Anything...

EUR/USD Today’s support: - 1.3252, 1.3235, 1.3207 and 1.3174(main),where correction is possible. Break would give 1.3140, where correction also may be. Then follows 1.3115. Break of the latter...

Asian markets were largely lower as investors fear next week’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting. There is a good chance they will taper back the asset purchase program then.This...

Tops never form cleanly.I’ve made the mistake of attempting to call a top on the “dot” in the past. The reality is that anyone who attempts to do so is exercising their ego more than...