Market Overview

It certainly seems that technological advances make our lives better. Instead of writing a letter, stamping it, and mailing it (which was vastly more personal), we now send emails. Rather than...

NFP report expectations: +164K jobs, +0.3% m/m earnings, unemployment at 4.2% The leading indicators point to an as expected reading in this month’s NFP report, with headline job growth potentially...

Bloomberg reported on Tuesday after the stock market closed, that the Department of Justice (DOJ) had sent Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) a subpoena related to a potential antitrust investigation. We...

Risk appetite got another hit yesterday after the US ADP report printed a weaker-than-expected number. The data suggested that the US economy added only 99K new private jobs last month, significantly...

Fresh signs of a cooling labour market are boosting confidence in the Fed's policy turnaround but have so far had a mixed effect on the dynamics of major markets.The labour market is in the spotlight...

The current lineup of US GDP nowcasts for the third quarter continue to indicate a softer but still solid growth rate. Wall Street is wondering if the upcoming payrolls report for August will change...

Gold (XAU) Rises on Soft US Employment Data Gold (XAU/USD) rose slightly on Wednesday as the US dollar (USD) dropped following a weaker-than-expected US JOLTs Job Openings report. JOLTs data showed a...

Stocks ended the day mostly flat, resembling a pause. It wouldn’t be surprising to see the market trade lower today, ahead of the payroll report, which is due tomorrow. Implied volatility will likely...

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...