Morning Roll Call

After Trump’s weekend threats versus China; to raise tariffs on $200b of imports from 10% to 25% beginning this Friday, the U.S. and Eurozone markets adjustment during Monday’s sessions was relatively contained, after Chinese markets sold off by the largest single day amount in over three years. However, after escalated threats emerged on Tuesday morning […]

The main Chinese equity markets sold off by circa 5% during the Asian session on Monday morning, as the Shanghai Composite and CSI equity indices fell by their largest amount in over three years. After recent reports of supposed, gradual concessions, being agreed by both China and the USA, in their trade war and tariff

The week begins with a relatively quiet day on Monday for calendar events, as the U.K. banking system is closed (on Monday only) for the May bank holiday. Therefore, trading in forex, particularly in GBP related pairs, could experience less volume during the day. In the Sydney Asian session the latest New Zealand dairy auction

The U.S. dollar recorded gains versus the majority of its peers during the trading sessions on Thursday as FX analysts and traders balanced their positions, based on the FOMC rate hold announcement, disclosed on Wednesday evening. The Fed chair Jerome Powell’s subsequent forward guidance, contained in the press conference he subsequently held, also concentrated minds.

On Friday May 3rd, at 13:30pm U.K. time, the latest NFP jobs data will be published. In the same week as the NFP data is published, the latest ADP payrolls data is usually released on the preceding Wednesday. On Wednesday May 1st, the ADP data came in at 275k for April, ahead of the Reuters

During the Easter holiday and the two week recess for U.K. parliament, the volume of sterling trading dropped significantly. As MPs trudged back to Westminster last week, currency pairs such as GBP/USD continued to trade in narrow ranges, as the lack of progress with regards to Brexit, gave no reason for large traders to alter

The U.S. dollar index, DXY, gave up position from its recent two year high, during Monday’s trading sessions. At 20:15pm U.K. time, the index of a basket of USD peers traded at 97.85, down -0.16%, having threatened to breach the 99.00 handle, during the previous week’s trading sessions. At 20:50pm USD/JPY traded close to flat,

The week’s significant economic calendar events begins on Monday April 29th, with a speech delivered by the Bank of England Governor Mark Carney, at 9:10am U.K. time in London. He’ll most likely cover the fact that U.K. GDP is holding up well, combined with the majority of key economic metrics printing positive figures, despite the

Markets for equities in the USA experienced unusual price action, during Thursday’s New York session, as price action for the: DJIA, SPX and NASDAQ whipsawed in wide ranges, oscillating between bullish and bearish sentiment, as earnings for various corporations and data, missed forecasts. The major market surprise concerned the earnings of Tesla, whose share price

The Aussie dollar immediately slumped versus the U.S. dollar, during Wednesday’s Sydney-Asian trading session. The CPI reading (year on year) up to March came in at 1.3%, falling from 1.8%, dampening any expectation that the RBA central bank would be raising the interest rates, during  the short to medium term, in 2019. AUD/USD slumped during