Market Overview

With the US presidential elections just a few weeks away, we take a look at the economic and social program of the Democratic candidate for the White House. Following the interest rate cut announced...

There is only one way to rescue America’s faltering economy and that’s the wholesale abandonment of Washington’s reckless spending, and borrowing policies of the last quarter century. These policies...

Investors see decent chance of another 50bps cut in November Fed speakers, ISM PMIs and NFP to shape rate cut bets Eurozone CPI data awaited amid bets for more ECB cuts China PMIs and BoJ Summary of...

China stimulus and rate cut bets propel stocks higher Dollar caught in choppy trading as crucial inflation data awaited Yen surges as new LDP leader in favour of rate hikes set to become PM Gold...

Annual consumer inflation decelerated in August to 2.5% from 2.9% in July, giving the Federal Reserve (Fed) flexibility to focus on the job market. In the Fed’s eyes, the balance of risk shifted...

Gold Slows Down as Traders Closely Monitor the US Reports Gold (XAU/USD) showed the first signs of slowing down on Thursday, as the recent US reports were better than expected. The US Gross Domestic...

Hard luck for the hard-landers yesterday. Yesterday's GDP report was full of upward revisions: Some of the hard-landers expected GDP to be revised lower after a large gap between GDP (which measures...

42. The S&P 500 printed its 42nd record high this year yesterday on the back of a mixed bag of economic and corporate news. First, the latest GDP data confirmed that the US economy grew 3% in Q2...

Markets are highly confident that the Federal Reserve will announce another cut in interest rates at the next policy meeting on Nov. 7, two days after the election. The uncertainty is whether the cut...

US dollar rebounds ahead of Powell and other Fed speakers US futures also turn positive as Asian rally continues on China optimism SNB cuts rates by 25 bps as expected as ECB mulls October...

Gold (XAU/USD) moved within the $2,650–$2,670 range on Wednesday as investors looked forward to a series of US macro data for further guidance on the Federal Reserve (Fed) monetary policy. Gold...

Consumer confidence has been relatively depressed for the past couple of years according to the Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) and Consumer Sentiment Index (CSI), which are based on surveys...

The global economy is settling into a newfound stability and central banks can continue to cautiously cut rates, said the OECD yesterday, but warned that the major central banks should maintain their...

Instead of falling after the Fed lowered rates, the 10-year and 20+ year yields have risen. This seems incongruous given the dovish Fed talk. However, a lot of the cuts were baked into the bonds...