Morning Roll Call

The minutes of the FOMC November meeting were published on Wednesday evening, revealing that an interest rate rise is imminent, however, the minutes also struck a dovish tone, with the various Fed chairs indicating their inflation fears, suggesting that rate rises in 2018 may not be as aggressive as previously predicted. As a consequence of […]

After falling back last week, whilst displaying a classic Heiken Ashi doji on a weekly chart, indicating investor indecision, many analysts were left wondering where the next momentum would come from, in order to push the main USA equity markets to fresh record highs. After setting so many highs throughout 2017, finally the SPX broke

As news broke from Germany late Sunday evening, revealing that current chancellor Angela Merkel had failed in her attempts to forge a coalition alliance with the FDC party, the euro fell immediately once the FX markets opened. EUR/USD fell by circa 0.9%, reaching S3. As European markets opened the currency pair began to recover, whilst

Last week ended with the main SPX falling for the second week in series and the U.S. dollar also falling for the fourth day in series. Investors appear to be concerned that; despite earnings season proving to be encouraging for U.S. stocks and the Republicans’ tax proposals passing through their first hurdle in The Senate,

The main equity indices in the USA rallied on Thursday, as the proposed tax cuts, which were at the heart of Trump’s election manifesto, passed through the first governmental process, as the Senate House passed the Republican Party’s first version of the bill. The opposition Democrats may put up resistance to the bill and its

With corporate earnings season effectively over, the tax cuts initiative unlikely to be made law (in the form Trump wanted) any time soon and the December FOMC rate setting meeting beginning to focus minds, investors in U.S. equities have been struggling to justify reasons to bid markets up over recent days. Doubts are also beginning

Tuesday proved to be an incredibly busy day for high impact economic calendar news events, with the majority of the Eurozone hard data releases either meeting or beating forecasts, ensuring that the euro rose significantly versus its major peers. EUR/USD rose by circa 1.5% on the day, its largest one day gain since June 27th

The U.K. pound came under pressure on Monday morning, as the two week E.U. deadline ultimatum issued on Friday, immediately effected trader sentiment when Asian markets opened, and the sell off continued until late afternoon. Theresa May’s authority came under pressure as ministers briefed against her over the weekend and more Brexit complication also emerged

Last week ended with several of the ongoing, global, political situations still dominating the political landscape; the U.K. political turmoil in the Tory Party, Brexit, USA tax cuts, and Catalonia, were the key issues of last week and will take centre stage over the next few days and weeks, until some form of resolution is

U.S. equities and the dollar sold off on Thursday as the U.S. Senate indicated that it could take up to 2019 in order for a tax plan to be fully ratified, moreover, the government lawmakers were suggesting that the final policy (when brought into law), would not resemble Trump’s outline plan whatsoever. The tech heavy