Market Commentaries

Global equity markets were cheered overnight, as news filtered down that the USA government had avoided an upcoming shutdown, after a budget was agreed by congress for border security. The agreed congress funding of $1.4b for border security, falls far short of the $5.7b of funding Trump wanted approved, to specifically build his infamous wall, […]

At 1:00am, on Wednesday February 13th, during the early part of the Sydney-Asia trading session, New Zealand’s central bank, the RBNZ, will broadcast their decision with regards to the bank’s key interest rate. Referred to as the OCR or official cash rate, the current rate is 1.75%, and according to the economists polled by Reuters

FX traders have to rapidly become conversant with many new concepts and the language that accompanies the various concepts. Not only do you have to learn the language of technical and fundamental analysis, you also have to quickly get up to speed with various phenomenon that can have an impact on your trading. Getting your

The U.S. dollar traded close to a six week high, versus a basket of its currency peers, during the overnight and early morning trading sessions on Monday February 11th. The upcoming USA-China trade talks begin this week, with the aim of discouraging the Trump administration from implementing the threat of sanctions, on a further $200b

Whipsawing FX markets, represent some of the most challenging trading conditions traders can face. Inexperienced traders, who are unfamiliar in witnessing such rapid change, can experience elevated levels of stress and perhaps incur unnecessary and avoidable losses, during periods when the markets become volatile and highly unpredictable. Coping with such FX market behaviour involves identifying

After a recent raft of negative data relating to Germany has been published, combined with economic calendar readings that have missed forecasts, the German economy has finally printed metrics that beat the forecasts, perhaps alleviating concerns that the economy might fall into recession. It must be noted that German data can be impacted by seasonal

The commentary regarding Brexit has varied dramatically over recent weeks, depending on where you obtain your news. Arguably, the most accurate and unbiased coverage, comes from the financial media, where they have no axe to grind politically. It’s the economics that’s at the forefront of the opinion formers who write for: Reuters, Bloomberg and the

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NZD/USD fell sharply in late evening trade on Wednesday, the fall continued through to Thursday’s early Sydney session, with the commodity currency pair trading down 0.30% by 9:00 am U.K. time. Unemployment in New Zealand rose from 3.9% to 4.3% in the month of January, whilst the participation rate fell. The employment change fell to

Equity markets in both Europe and the USA appeared to tread water during Wednesday’s trading sessions, with all the major equity indices oscillating in tight ranges, around the daily pivot points. After breaking up through the critical psyche handle of 7,000, then breaching 7,100 over recent days, the U.K. FTSE 100 appears to be struggling