The ‘inevitable’ Fed interest rate rise, the Dutch election and the UK’s Article 50 Brexit timeline, all look set to dominate the economic calendar events this week This week we potentially have an example of how political events can impact our FX markets far more than the scheduled economic calendar events we tend to set […]
Euro rises after Mario Draghi’s bullish press conference, U.S. equities remain flat, whilst unemployment claims rise Focus shifted away from the USA on Thursday to the ECB’s various interest rate decisions being published, whilst president Mario Draghi held court both before and after the rate decisions. As excepted the series of interest rates remained unchanged,
Positive USA jobs data fails to raise equity markets, as a rout in oil causes investor jitters Wednesday morning began with (yet another) curious set of data releases from an economic superpower, this time it was China’s turn to raise analysts’ eyebrows. Exports slumped to a negative reading for February; coming in at -1.3%, missing
U.S. equities continue to sell off, as the U.S. trade deficit widens to a five year high. Sterling continues to sell off Have we been here before? Excuse us if we sound like a broken record, but once again we experienced diverse and dislocated economic calendar, fundamental news, pertaining to the USA economy on Tuesday.
Sterling slides to a seven week low as Brexit fears spook investors, USA equities retrace, whilst the dollar rises, pending the ‘inevitable’ Fed interest rate rise Analysts and investors appear certain that the Fed will engage in two interest rate rises in 2017 (the first announced at next week’s Fed meeting), based on the loose
The UK’s Spring Budget, the ECB’s and RBA’s interest rate decisions and NFP day form the basis of the key fundamental economic releases for the week Early Monday morning sees the release of the latest Australian retail figures; forecast to have risen to 0.4% in February, from the surprise fall of -0.1% in January. From
GBP/USD falls to six week low, U.S. equities retreat after record busting run, U.S. dollar rises, as bets on an interest rate hike in March rise to ninety percent USA equity markets found reverse gear during Thursday’s New York trading session. Technically the SPX suffered its worst day since December 28th, however, context must be
DJIA smashes up through 21,000, U.S. dollar rises, whilst USA manufacturing grows at its highest rate since August 2014 Three months back, shortly before the USA November 9th election, the DJIA was at circa 18,000. This time last year (early March) the index was at 16,800. The index has now risen circa 26% year on
DJIA snaps it’s record winning streak, SPX also closes lower, U.S. dollar rises, whilst markets were primed for Trump’s address to Congress. From awaiting Trump’s tweets to move the markets, investors and traders now also have to focus on his regular addresses to lawmakers, or assembled decision makers, in order to gauge market sentiment and
DJIA index continues its record run, U.S. dollar rises, whilst odds on a Fed March interest rate rises to fifty percent. President Trump held court on Monday and decided to preempt his appearance before Congress on Tuesday and issue a form of forward guidance in relation to promising a: massive fiscal stimulus, tax cuts and
