The trend of marginal moves while pushing record highs in US indices looks set to continue on Wednesday, with futures pointing to a marginally higher open on Wall Street. This week in particular there has been a keen focus on the Jackson Hole ...

European equity markets are expected to open a little higher on Tuesday following a mixed session in Asia overnight, as traders await data from the euro area this morning  while maintaining a little caution ahead of Janet Yellen’s Jackson Hole ...

It’s been an interesting, albeit quiet, start to trading this week, with commodity and bond markets coming under early pressure, the yen taking a welcome hit and equity markets creeping mostly higher in the background. Commodity markets took quite a ...

US futures are pointing to a flat open on Thursday, as investors look to get their teeth into the FOMC minutes from the meeting in July. The Federal Reserve has very much come back into focus in recent days after John Williams suggested that a ...

An interesting week lies ahead for financial markets as we get the latest jobs report, retail sales and inflation data from the UK, FOMC minutes and inflation data from the US as well as a host of other data and releases from the eurozone, Australia ...

US futures are pointing to a slightly higher open on Thursday, tracking similar gains across most of Europe as traders eye the latest economic data and movements in the oil market. At a time of relatively little news flow, traders are again focused ...

With expectations so high ahead of today’s Reserve Bank of New Zealand monetary policy decision, I take a look at what some of the key levels could be depending on the outcome of the decision. 25 bps cut and no firm commitment – NZDUSD could be ...

It’s been another mixed start to the European session on Wednesday and US futures are also pointing to a similar open on Wall Street, with focus remaining on the oil market in the absence of any other major catalysts. Having flirted with sub-$40 ...

The Bank of England today became one of the only central banks to announce a stimulus package that appears to have, at least for now, exceeded market expectations and satisfy investors in a way that other central banks have failed this year. The ...

The euro has been boosted against the dollar since last Friday following the release of the US Q2 GDP data that delivered a hammer blow to rate hike chances and therefore the greenback. The moves that followed took the pair through the 1.1150 ...

Just as it looked as though we may see a correction in Brent crude as it ran into support around a key zone, it’s taken another dip lower breaking through the lower bound of the support zone and the 200-day simple moving average in the process. It’s ...

Last week, I wrote a piece when Brent crude was testing the July lows and threatening to break below the 89-day simple moving average (Brent Crude – Key Support Coming Under Pressure). Since then the level has broken and we now find ourselves ...

It’s been an interesting start to trading on Wednesday but attention will now shift to the U.S. where we await the latest interest rate decision and statement from the Federal Reserve, as well as more earnings reports from more than 10% of S&P 500 ...

We’ve seen a decent rally in the yen today on the back of reports that the Japanese fiscal spending package will be much smaller than previously thought – ¥6 trillion rather than ¥20 trillion – calling into question both the effectiveness of any ...

It’s been a relatively quiet start to the week in the markets but this should pick up quite considerably with a couple of big central bank decisions to come and more than a third of S&P 500 companies reporting second quarter earnings. The stand out ...

The euro has taken a turn lower against the dollar late in the European session, falling to its lowest level since 24 June, when it tanked on news that the U.K. had voted to leave the E.U. The pair had established a relatively tight trading range ...

It’s been a mixed start to trading on Friday, with PMI data from euro area offering some cause for optimism while the numbers coming from the U.K. provided a much more pessimistic outlook for the manufacturing and services sectors. The pound has ...

Brent crude has been grinding lower since coming off its highs at the start of June and most recently has found itself consolidating between the 55 and 89-day simple moving averages. Over the last couple of days, there has once again been some ...

European equity markets are poised to open a little lower on Tuesday ahead of the release of the latest inflation data from the U.K.. Core U.K. inflation has been running well below the Bank of England’s target of 2% for two years now, something the ...

The U.S. labour market bounced back in June following the disappointment in May, creating 287,000 jobs which was well ahead of market expectations. As always with the jobs report, there is much more to it than the headline numbers would ...