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- Submitted Jan 26, 2015|From marketpulse.com
The markets initial reaction was to further penalize the EUR, pushing it briefly to a new 11-year low (€1.098) in Asia as the Greeks radical leftist vowed to tear up term’s of the country’s bailout. However, the EUR weakness has been short lived, ...
- Submitted Jan 23, 2015|From marketpulse.com
The European Central Bank (ECB) was always expected to be the main event of the past week. Capital markets had time aplenty to prepare to react to President Mario Draghi’s post-meeting press conference. Would the ECB stand and deliver? Would it ...
- Submitted Jan 22, 2015|From marketpulse.com|8 comments
The EUR bear finds out his or her own fate in a matter of hours. Will Draghi and the ECB stand and deliver what’s rumored and expected of them? It’s always conceivable when dealing with Euro policy makers that they could come up short on their ...
- Submitted Jan 21, 2015|From marketpulse.com
Despite Japan’s Governor Kuroda, Canada’s Governor Poloz and the BoE’s MPC votes taking the lead in in the first-half of this week, Capital Markets are firmly focused on the European Central Bank, and in particular Draghi’s post press conference ...
- Submitted Jan 19, 2015|From marketpulse.com|1 comment
Rate divergence is a major trading theme for 2015. Yet, no one expected the imminent impact of varying rate policies so early in the new calendar year. For so long, the market has been focusing on a Fed or BoE hike (which are being pushed further ...
- Submitted Jan 13, 2015|From marketpulse.com
Currently, there are many moving parts in Capital Markets that has investors bracing themselves for an extended clear out at a moments notice. The knock on effect throughout the various asset classes from plummeting crude prices has global bourses ...
- Submitted Jan 8, 2015|From marketpulse.com
For the EUR the lack of material bounce is intensifying bearish sentiment. Year-to-date, short EUR positions have been a near pain free experience, especially when the market broke the psychological €1.2000 handle on this weeks open. One gets the ...
- Submitted Jan 6, 2015|From marketpulse.com
The market has yet to take a breather early in this New Year, basically carrying on where it left off in the fourth quarter of 2014. Traders and dealers are happy that there is strong price movement from all the asset classes — bonds, equities, and ...
- Submitted Jan 5, 2015|From marketpulse.com
The first full week of 2015 is upon us, and the markets have already heated up from their one-week holiday slumber. The next five-days are laden with crucial economic releases including key inflation data for the Eurozone; merchandise trade data for ...
- Submitted Dec 30, 2014|From marketpulse.com
The collapse of the Greek government is not expected to have the same knock-on contagion effect witnessed during the ‘darkest days’ of the European debt crisis two years ago. Back then and similar to today, the European Central Bank (ECB) pledged to ...
- Submitted Dec 29, 2014|From marketpulse.com|7 comments
It’s a difficult week to get excited about in capital markets. Most of the necessary positional business that had to be done will have been concluded well ahead of the New Year due to massive liquidity limitations. Investors should not be surprised ...
- Submitted Dec 22, 2014|From marketpulse.com
The dearth of currency market volatility in 2014 that sank to historic lows last summer appears to be consigned to history. Put simply, there are too many economic and geopolitical variables that erupted over the latter half of the year that ignited ...
- Submitted Dec 19, 2014|From marketpulse.com
Capital markets are poised to fall silent as the holidays are about to begin in earnest. It’s in hot pursuit of the broad-based risk-on rally that has given U.S. equities their biggest two-day gain of the year. It’s a nice holiday gift to close out ...
- Submitted Dec 18, 2014|From marketpulse.com|2 comments
Over the past 24-hours, Capital Markets have managed to navigate the last of the significant Central Bank scheduled meetings for this calendar year – the FOMC yesterday and this morning’s defensive SNB meeting. Investors must expect the outlier ...
- Submitted Dec 12, 2014|From marketpulse.com
Investors have just completed navigating through a week not for the faint-hearted. A week peppered with new record lows for crude (WTI +$58.80, down -10% on the week and -20% m/m), the Russian rouble ($57.98, down -44% year-to-date) and a massive ...
- Submitted Dec 11, 2014|From marketpulse.com|1 comment
Central banks announcements and loan program results (ECB TLTRO) are again dominating capital market direction. A surprise interest rate cut (Norges), an expected rate hike (CBR), some misinterpreted bullish rhetoric (RBNZ), and the uttering of a ...
- Submitted Dec 10, 2014|From marketpulse.com|1 comment
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water, along comes another wave of negativity that is hurting the less nimble of investor as capital markets prepare to close out an extraordinary year. Disappointing data from the newly crowed ...
- Submitted Dec 5, 2014|From marketpulse.com
Friday delivered a nonfarm payrolls (NFP) report that blew away the critics, conspiracy theorists, and jittery investors in one fell swoop. U.S. employers ramped up hiring in November, continuing a stretch of robust payroll gains, putting the U.S. ...
- Submitted Dec 4, 2014|From marketpulse.com
The threat of global central bank action is managing to keep the various assets classes on their toes. Whether it’s the Central Bank of Russia (the threat of tighter monetary policy next week), the Peoples Bank of China (easing of monetary policy ...
- Submitted Dec 3, 2014|From marketpulse.com
Who cares, just as long as you are not ‘long’ any it seems – except perhaps against the CHF. The Swiss National Bank appears to be the only entity wholly committed to fulfill their requirements to keep the “line in the sand” or EUR/CHF floor ...