Faraday Research

While the Federal Reserve has grabbed all the headlines for raising interest rates lately, its neighbor to the north has actually been just as aggressive in tightening policy over the last year. The...

There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen. -Vladamir Lenin With respect to the early 20th century Soviet leader, pound traders no doubt feel like they’ve...

After a minor retracement, bears did get the last laugh as they pushed gold through another level of support to a fresh year to date low. Yet after stalling above key support, it could be time for the...

The Federal Reserve opted to raise its benchmark interest rate by 25bps to the 1.75-2.00% at its meeting three weeks ago.We noted at the time that the central bank made numerous upgrades to its...

A stream of weak data, brewing trade wars and a growth warning from RBNZ has resulted in NZD being the weakest major over the past three months, allowing AUD to regain some ground and send AUD/NZD...

After a strong start to this week’s trade, the U.S. dollar was on its back foot on the final trading day of the week, month and quarter.The proximate cause for the buck’s weakness is good...

Modern wars are fought with precision tactics and tools like drones, targeted strikes and heavy reconnaissance to identify where the enemy is weakest. But, as any military historian will tell you,...

The USD has seen several markets test and break key levels, with its next intended victim being AUD/USD and a break of its long-term Fibonacci level. We can see on the weekly chart that momentum...

Last week, West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil traded down to 63.70 intraday, the same level it was trading at in early January. Much like the US stock market, prices had traveled both higher and...

Another day, another round of trade-war tweets drawing the attention of traders.To extend the trade-war analogy, Tuesday morning’s causality was due to friendly fire. In a series of tweets, US...

For EUR/GBP traders, there’s been good news and bad news over the last couple of months: The good news is that they’ve had plenty of time to watch the World Cup. The bad news is that...

For EUR/GBP traders, there’s been good news and bad news over the last couple of months: The good news is that they’ve had plenty of time to watch the World Cup…and the bad news is...

Global equities are once again opening the week on the back foot as a joint story from the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg further exacerbated US-China trade tensions. The report alleges that the US...

EUR/USD Forms Key Reversal off Critical 1.15 SupportBelow you'll find the video... Original post

Global markets were thrown into flux once again when US President Donald Trump poured gasoline on the simmering trade-war fire.President Trump tweeted that “if [EU trade tariffs] are not soon...

In response to our prior Gold analysis, the shiny yellow metal’s trendline folded and a decisive break of $1300 ensued. But since finding support around $1260, can the bears take it to fresh...