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Market Movers The main event for financial markets today will be Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen's appearance before the Financial Services Committee to deliver the semi-annual report on monetary...

In February's Oil Market Report, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has revised down US and Chinese Q4 15 oil demand.The IEA is, among other things, concerned about the impact on oil demand from...

There is a limited number of interesting data releases on the calendar today to guide financial markets in the midst of rising turmoil. The market will therefore likely position itself ahead of...

During last week synthetic credit indices moved a few basis points higher each session and iTraxx Main (5y) ended 17bp higher w/w. Yesterday was another tough session with a further increase in...

We visited Warsaw on 28-29 January, meeting with private banks, the Ministry of Finance, the bankers' association, private companies and other officials. This document presents our key findings from...

Chinese currency reserve data for January showed another big decline of USD107.9bn, to USD3.230trn (released over the weekend).Adjusted for valuation (reflecting changes in exchange rates versus the...

This week the G10 FX Financial Scorecard recommends buying AUD, CAD and NZD while selling JPY, CHF and EUR.Last week's signals resulted in a 1.9% gain. In particular, the long JPY position performed...

The latest IMM data covers the week from 26 January to 02 February 2016To read the entire report Please click on the pdf File Below.

The main event in Sweden is the Riksbank monetary policy decision (Thursday at 09:30 CET). We expect a repo rate cut of at least 10bp (0.1 percentage points) to 0.45% or lower. With regard to the...

Market Movers We expect the Sentix investor confidence for February to follow the direction from January and decrease once again due to the continued global market uncertainty. If this uncertainty...

This week has seen further declines in inflation expectations and interest rates.Concerns about the US economy prompted a sharp fall in the dollar. The fall in inflation expectations raises questions...

In our view, the jobs report was mainly positive, although the headline was weaker than expected. Employment grew by 151,000 in January, significantly lower than employment growth in Q4 (which was...

Market movers aheadIn last week's Weekly Focus, we wrote that rate cuts are back on the agenda (see Weekly Focus: Rate cuts back on the agenda , 29 January). Now it is the Riksbank's time to ease, as...

A calendar of key events in the Commodities Market for the week ahead.

The Bank of England has made it clear that it is definitely not 'Fed light'. There are many reasons for the BoE to stay on hold for a long time: subdued wage inflation, ECB on an easing bias and...

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...