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Markets have finally shifted -- at least a bit -- of their attention away from President Trump, with Wednesday's highly anticipated Federal Reserve monetary policy meeting taking center stage. We've...

It’s a central-bank bonanza this week as the Fed, BoJ, BoE and SNB are poised to update the market.Here’s a technical snapshot of how the major FX pairs are shaping...

On Wednesday, the US energy department released data showing that US oil stockpiles had risen to 8.2m barrels -- a ninth consecutive monthly increase. This, combined with Saudi Arabia’s energy...

This week sees the second anniversary of the ECB’s asset purchase program and an ECB meeting tomorrow with Mario Draghi. He’s under some pressure to sound more bullish about the European...

This week sees the second anniversary of the ECB’s asset-purchase program and Thursday's ECB meeting with Mario Draghi. He’s under some pressure to sound more bullish on the European...

It's become a bit passé by now to highlight the big hawkish shift in the traders' expectations for next week's FOMC meeting; unless you've been living under a rock, you know the market-implied...

Here’s a technical snapshot of how the major FX pairs are shaping up as we kick off the trading week…EUR/USD Friday’s ‘short squeeze’ helped to sober those dollar bulls...

Yesterday saw the FTSE 100 rally 119 points to all-time highs, opening on its lows and closing on its highs for good measure. The intraday range was the largest since 7th December 2016 and is clear...

Who would have thought it – a new U.S president sounding ‘presidential’? Perhaps the most shocking thing in President Trump’s address to Congress was that there was nothing...

To illustrate how far markets have come since the US election, allow me to relay an anecdote from last weekend: At her 88th birthday celebration, my grandmother, a dyed-blue retired schoolteacher,...

For most markets, it was an uneventful end to the week: the Dow Jones Industrial Average traded marginally lower most of Friday only to reverse up in the final half hour to notch its 11th consecutive...

Surging profits for both Lloyds (NYSE:LYG) and Barclays (NYSE:BCS_pd) made headlines this week. Let’s delve deeper into their respective earnings updates and assess the short-term outlook for...

When prices are compressing and consolidating for a significant period of time, statistical tendency generally dictates that a period of price expansion will follow. The longer that period of price...

Monday's close officially marked 70 trading days since the US election and while plenty has changed, for both country and market, it's really been a "Tale of Two Halves."The 35 trading days after the...

Imagine if, at the start of the week, I had told you the following: Top-tier US data would be unanimously strong, with solid readings on inflation (CPI and PPI), retail sales, and a 30-year high in...

Having to ask younger esteemed colleagues whether they had heard of the above phrase shows how times have changed. Conversely, history tends to repeat itself and it is in this light that...