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- Submitted Aug 21, 2015|From marketpulse.com
It’s relentless and there is no let up in sight anytime soon. Investors are trading divergent trading themes, which is resulting in volatile and confusing markets for all participants to navigate. Asian currencies and the Australian dollar are ...
- Submitted Aug 20, 2015|From marketpulse.com
Investors were hoping for guidance on rate liftoff timing from the Fed yesterday, but that was not to be the case. The Fed did not send an obvious signal in the July minutes about whether a rate increase is on the cards for September. But they did ...
- Submitted Aug 19, 2015|From marketpulse.com|3 comments
The Fed has made it a priority of theirs to convince investors that the pace of tightening matters more than the timing of the first rate liftoff in a decade. But have investors been listening? The minutes from the Federal Open Market Committee ...
- Submitted Aug 17, 2015|From marketpulse.com|1 comment
Now that the initial drama of the yuan devaluation has subsided somewhat, it’s back to deciphering U.S economic indicators for market directional clues. Making this a tad more complicated is the lack of market participation that has been brought on ...
- Submitted Jul 13, 2015|From marketpulse.com
The market calls for a possible Bank of Canada (BoC) rate cut this Wednesday seems to be getting a tad louder. A percentage of the street are raising the possibility that Governor Poloz will cut the BoC’s policy rate by -25bp amid signs that the ...
- Submitted Jul 9, 2015|From marketpulse.com
Capital markets currently have so many moving parts to contend with that it’s no wonder that volatility trades atop a multi-month high. If it’s not Chinese officials trying to prop up the Shanghai Composite index in fear of economic setback and ...
- Submitted Jul 7, 2015|From marketpulse.com|1 comment
Petro currency shorts are all the rage after yesterday’s dramatic oil drop. Crude prices suffered their biggest one day loss in three-months Monday, falling -7% on the back of a delayed reaction to an inventory build up stateside last week and on ...
- Submitted Jul 6, 2015|From marketpulse.com|2 comments
Capital markets were expecting a narrow “yes” victory in Sunday’s Greek referendum, the restart of negotiations with its creditors, and the likely end to Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s government. Instead investors are faced with a resounding “no” ...
- Submitted Jul 3, 2015|From marketpulse.com
It’s only natural that this weekend’s Independence Day celebrations stateside and Sunday’s Greek referendum would discourage any aggressive market participation. Expect many investors to continue to adopt the “wait and see'” approach, especially ...
- Submitted Jun 25, 2015|From marketpulse.com|1 comment
So close, but now so far, so it seems. The forex market appears totally jaded with what’s going down, or not, with Greece and its creditors. For now, currency price moves are relatively contained, notwithstanding the odd fluctuation from a jibe or ...
- Submitted Jun 24, 2015|From marketpulse.com
Despite the Grexit event risk on display, U.S markets have begun this week largely looking past Greece and refocusing on U.S data and rate expectations. Already the USD has rebounded as interest rates back up. For many, the single units move lower ...
- Submitted Jun 22, 2015|From marketpulse.com
The single unit has now returned to trading in neutral territory, the mid-point from last Friday’s and the overnight range (€1.1340-50), and this after having filled in the gap from the Asian session (€1.1404 high overnight). For the majority of ...
- Submitted Jun 19, 2015|From marketpulse.com
This mix of overt and subtle withdrawal of market support is a key macro driver of recent increased volatility. Aside from Euro-Greek fiasco this week, there has been a handful of Central Bank rate announcements, growth projections, press ...
- Submitted Jun 18, 2015|From marketpulse.com|2 comments
The EUR trades above €1.14 heading stateside, edging ever higher ahead of today’s important Eurogroup meeting. The lull in Greek headline rhetoric is pressuring some of the weaker short EUR positions. Sterling has managed to print a seven-month high ...
- Submitted Jun 15, 2015|From marketpulse.com|2 comments
No matter what transpires this week in capital markets, investors are required to trade with some caution as price movements across the various asset classes – forex, fixed income or equities – are expected to be rather volatile. Already, failure ...
- Submitted Jun 9, 2015|From marketpulse.com|1 comment
As long as the Greek populace wants the euro there will be an eventual compromise, but until then, Grexit threats, rumors, and innuendo will provide enough fodder for capital markets to deliver heightened volatility across all asset classes. Already ...
- Submitted Jun 5, 2015|From marketpulse.com
The loonies rise after North American jobs data was brief. The weak short USD/CAD positions did see the loonie rally to below the psychological C$1.2500 handle ($1.2480) where a plethora of “big” dollar buyers immediately appeared. The CAD has since ...
- Submitted Jun 3, 2015|From marketpulse.com
The last of the U.K’s PMI readings arrived this morning to show how robust PM Cameron’s consumer led recovery really is, and it massively disappointed the markets. So much so that sterling lost a near full cent (£1.5270) within minutes of the ...
- Submitted Jun 2, 2015|From marketpulse.com
The EUR (€1.1025) has managed to gather some upward traction after a meeting of international leaders in Berlin overnight has given hope to investors that an agreement between Greece and its creditors may be struck before Friday’s first IMF payment ...
- Submitted Jun 1, 2015|From marketpulse.com
In Capital markets, this week will not be for the faint hearted. Market movement within the various asset classes will be dictated by a plethora of economic releases and a number of Central Bank rate announcements. Nonetheless, investors should be ...