podcast OANDA Senior Market Analyst Craig Erlam previews the week’s business and market news with Jazz FM Business Breakfast presenter Jonny Hart. Brexit developments, the EU elections, BoE inflation report hearing, the US/China trade war, Iran ...

Risk appetite hits oil prices Oil prices are not having much fun in the current risk environment which shouldn’t come as much of a surprise considering global growth fears and their impact on risk are intrinsically linked to future oil demand. It’s ...

Oil higher again but rally in doubt We’re seeing a second day of gains in the oil market but I’m not getting too excited just yet. The market was feeling toppy prior to Friday’s sell-off, which was further highlighted by WTI making significant ...

Oil prices continue lower after Trump comments Oil prices are trading a little higher on Monday, paring Friday’s losses which came after Donald Trump claimed to have spoken with OPEC an demanded they bring prices down. It’s worth noting that this is ...

Gold is trading a little lower at the start of the week, perhaps a sign of early profit taking after the yellow metal popped higher on the back of the US first quarter GDP data. It may have been surprising to see gold rallying in the aftermath of ...

Oil prices are on the rise again on Thursday, with the inventory data from API and then EIA over the last 48 hours merely causing a pause in the rally despite reporting large increases. It would appear traders are far more interested in oil waivers ...

Can gold break $1,280 again? Earlier this week, gold broke below long-term support around $1,280 and, importantly, held below in what was viewed as a very bearish development in the yellow metal. Since then though, it hasn’t exactly triggered a wave ...

Oil finding resistance after inventory data Oil is trading marginally lower so far today, with a stronger dollar potentially being a drag on WTI crude. Yesterday’s inventory report from EIA may also have taken some of edge off the rally, with the ...

How bearish is the recent breakout? An interesting move in gold on Tuesday as it broke below $1,280 in what could be a very bearish development for the yellow metal. This has long been a key level of support for gold and some weakness in the dollar ...

WTI crude is trading half a percentage point higher on Wednesday, continuing recent gains following a brief spell of consolidation. The Chinese data may not have been the catalyst for the recent gains in oil prices – taking Brent to fresh five month ...

We’re seeing some profit taking in gold early in the day on Thursday, with the yellow metal coming on the back of four winning days in the last five. That’s an impressive run of form considering only a week ago we were seeing $1,280 – which is ...

A second large inventory build in two weeks, reported by EIA on Wednesday, has seen the oil rally stutter just as it was getting going. A break through an important resistance zone last week looked to have been the catalyst for another pop higher in ...

Oil prices appear to have found a little bullish momentum again in the last few days, with the rallies we’ve seen in equity markets clearly a major factor. Another reported inventory build from API on Tuesday may have taken some of the gloss off the ...

A softer dollar over the last 24 hours has given some reprieve to gold, which slipped below $1,300 last Thursday as the greenback benefited from weakness across a variety of other currencies. The euro was quite slow to respond to the PMI data but it ...

It was like the good old days in the crypto market on Tuesday, as traders in Europe and the US woke up to a more than 20% rally in bitcoin. Safe to say, it had become the forgotten instrument for a while as the very volatility it was known for ...

60 day extension a bullish catalyst Optimism around Sino-US trade talks is continuing to provide a boost for equity markets on Thursday, with a meeting between President Xi and top US officials on Friday being closely monitored. Trump’s claim that ...

US futures are a little lower ahead of the open as we head into the quieter period of the week, following Donald Trump’s State of the Union Address a day earlier. Trump’s speech on Tuesday wasn’t much of a market mover, more a reminder of the ...

Traders not sure what to make of jobs data It’s shaping up to be a pretty slow start to the week, with Europe getting little direction from Asia trade overnight where various countries join China in celebrating new year in the coming days. There ...

Senior Market Analyst Craig Erlam gives an update on how Brexit is proggressing, live from the City of London. Craig gives his view on how things will progress and why he thinks there’s still a long way to go yet. He then gives his analysis on the ...

Markets back in the red Well that didn’t last long. Day two of the post US/China truce and markets are back in the red and the US yield curve has inverted slightly, potentially taking some of the shine off the weekend’s events. The weekend dinner ...