Market Overview

Fed fund futures suggest a 40% chance of a 50bps September cut Powell’s Jackson Hole speech adds importance to jobs data US employment report scheduled for Friday at 13:30 GMT Investors See...

Part One of this article described the burgeoning bull steepening yield curve environment and what it implies about economic growth and Fed policy. It also discussed the three other predominant types...

Yen and franc gain, aussie the main loser Wall Street tumbles on risk-off September start ISM mfg. PMI rekindles economic concerns Oil collapses on prospect of Libyan accord Risk Aversion...

We expect the Fed rate cut cycle to start soon and proceed gradually. Barring a financial crisis or a sharp and unexpected change in the path of inflation or unemployment, the upcoming rate-cutting...

Gold Traders Await US Labour Market Data Gold (XAU/USD) dropped below $2,490 on Tuesday following the US Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) report but recovered by the end of the day. PMI...

September has just started and is already living up to its reputation of being the toughest month of the year for stocks. The stock market sold off after the open and August's weak M-PMI report was...

September began on an ugly note, to say the least. The US equities tumbled after the latest ISM data showed a fifth month of contraction in the US manufacturing, and at accelerated pace. The latter...

The next Fed meeting and interest rate decision is scheduled for September 18. Analysts in both the gold and mainstream investing communities feel that rate cuts should have already happened, and the...

Gold Declines Amid Stronger US Dollar and Rising Treasury Yields Gold (XAU/USD) declined by 0.21% on Tuesday, weighed down by a stronger US dollar (USD) and rising US Treasury bond yields. Gold...

Stocks rallied to close out the last week of August. The $6.5 billion buy imbalance, which overwhelmed the market in an illiquid trading session ahead of the three-day weekend, could have had...

The new week started with caution. The US and Canada were off, and news from Europe weren’t exceptional. The data released on Monday showed that the manufacturing PMI figures for August were slightly...

Market Overview: S&P 500 Emini Futures The market formed a monthly S&P 500 Emini double-bottom bull flag and retest of the all-time high. The bulls want a breakout with follow-through buying,...

PCE inflation holds steady, 50bps cut less likely Euro slips as Eurozone inflation drops to lowest in three years Wall Street gains on soft-landing hopes Traders Scale Back Fed Rate Cut Bets as NFP...

US PCE data keeps Fed rate cut hopes alive as inflation moves towards 2% target. Commodity prices fluctuate on geopolitical fears and OPEC+ production plans. US jobs data release is a key...