Market Commentaries

The U.K. pound continued the bullish direction it developed on Monday evening, as a consequence of the additional wording tagged onto the Brexit withdrawal agreement, which could give comfort to doubtful MPs, regarding the obstacle of the Irish backstop. The U.K. Parliament is due to vote on the revisions on Tuesday evening, at approximately 7:00pm. […]

Fears over the strength of the Japanese economy and doubts regarding its ability to weather the storm caused by China’s economy slipping, reappeared during the Asian session, as the latest machine tool orders fell sharply, whilst missing the forecast by some distance. In the month of February (YoY), the orders figure fell by -29.3%, after

At 9:30am U.K. time on Tuesday March 12th, the official U.K. statistics agency, the ONS, will reveal the latest data regarding U.K. GDP growth. The forecast from the Reuters news agency, after they’ve polled their panel of leading economists, is for the monthly GDP figure for the final quarter of 2018 to come in at

China’s authorities published desperately poor: import, export and trade balance data during the Asian trading session, leading to a significant sell off in Chinese equity markets and a rush into yen, as a safe haven option. China’s exports fell by -20.7% year on year up to February, imports fell by -5.20%, whilst the trade balance

On Friday March 8th, at 13:30pm U.K. time, one of the main American statistics agency, the BLS (Bureau Of Labor Statistics), will publish its latest data concerning jobs numbers. Referred to as the NFP data, non farm payroll numbers, this metric is one of the most closely watched data series on the economic calendar, pertaining

Australia’s trade surplus surged to $4.55 billion in January 2019, from an upwardly revised $3.77 billion registered in the previous month of December 2018. Beating the market forecast of a surplus of $3 billion, whilst printing the largest trade surplus in Australian history. Exports leapt by 5% MOM, to print a record all-time high of