Market Commentaries

WTI oil had sold-off sharply on a weekly basis as the tensions relating to safe sea-passage of energy through the straits of Hormuz, the busiest shipping-lane for the transport of oil on the planet, reduced significantly. However, tensions were suddenly escalated on Thursday evening as news broke that a USA warship shot down a drone […]

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As analysts await Japan’s latest CPI figure to be published in the early part of Friday’s Asian session, the latest import-export figures for the globe’s fourth largest economy indicated that the country is struggling to increase growth. Japan posted a trade surplus of JPY 590 billion in June 2019 compared with a JPY 728 billion

WTI oil slumped by up to 4% yesterday after both Iran officials and President Trump intimated that a negotiation was possible in order to avoid future conflict. Many analysts were surprised by this sudden Trump climbdown, which represents a departure from his usual grand-standing rhetoric. However, no sooner had his remarks; that the USA had

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On Wednesday July 17th several countries’ statistics agencies will publish their latest data on CPI (consumer price inflation). These data releases are usually considered to be high impact calendar events due to their ability to move the markets in the respective countries’ currencies, particularly if the figures beat or miss the news agencies’ forecasts. FX

The two currencies considered to be safe havens for investors and FX traders alike rose during the early trading sessions on Tuesday, as both the Swiss franc and Japanese yen registered gains versus the majority of their peers. The globe’s reserve currency, USD, also rose against its currency peers. At 8:45am U.K. time the dollar

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China’s year on year GDP growth came in as forecast by Reuters at 6.4%, the quarterly figure of Q2 did beat the 1.5% forecast by coming in at 1.6%, ahead of the Q1 reading of 1.4%. Analysed in isolation the Q2 figure was the lowest in 27 years, since 1992. The improvement between the Q1

Over the past 24 hours the media has reported that an A.I. robot named “Pluribus” has managed to beat multiple players at Poker. The research was jointly undertaken by Facebook and the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Pluribus has been built on the technique originally used to create Libratus, a poker playing A.I. that