Submitted Jul 21, 2014|From marketpulse.com

The reality is that geopolitical events are 'front and center,' firmly catching the attention of investors and all asset classes. To date, favorable U.S earnings have been put aside while markets remain focused on real time events in the aftermath ...

Submitted Jul 18, 2014|From marketpulse.com

The news of the shooting down of Malaysian airliner near the Russia-Ukraine border has understandably shaken global markets. Nevertheless, the harsh reality is that during the first half of this year, geopolitical events have had a relatively short ...

Submitted Jul 15, 2014|From marketpulse.com|6 comments

The forex market has seen some movement. Any decent change in currency prices provides investors opportunity, something that has been in short supply over the past month. This week a plethora of economic data releases, coupled with a handful of ...

Submitted Jul 11, 2014|From marketpulse.com

Thankfully it's Friday! A couple of ugly events have gripped investor's imagination this week. One will never go away, and has managed to scar many - Brazil's shellacking by Germany on home soil. The other occurred in Europe, managing temporarily to ...

Submitted Jul 8, 2014|From marketpulse.com|21 comments

Not the ideal start to a week where many expected more enthusiasms being expressed across the various asset classes, especially after last week's stronger US employment headline print. Maybe the market is priming itself for the summer doldrums? The ...

Submitted Jul 7, 2014|From marketpulse.com|2 comments

It's difficult to get excited about a market after a long weekend, especially one where various asset classes have been on a tear of late. It seems that both Asian and Europe are happy to rely on taking market direction suggestions from North ...

Submitted Jul 4, 2014|From marketpulse.com

European Markets ended Friday in a mild risk-off posture. There was no incentive for investors to do otherwise as the US equity and bond markets were closed due to the July 4th holiday. In forex, the overall tone was quiet, but participants did try ...

Submitted Jul 4, 2014|From marketpulse.com

There has been an uptick in intraday volatility since yesterday's US employment situation release. However, the depth and breath of these market moves have been held in check, mostly on the back of the holiday-shortened July 4th weekend stateside. ...

Submitted Jul 3, 2014|From marketpulse.com|5 comments

Investors require "volatility for opportunity" and with today's plethora of economic releases and central bank announcements on either side of the Atlantic the market should be exposed to a significant pre-firework display, heightened by a shortened ...

Submitted Jul 2, 2014|From marketpulse.com

This week should be capable of living up to the hype of being action packed confined to a few trading sessions of real opportunity. Capital markets have not missed much of a beat, starting H2 where they left off the first - following most global ...

Submitted Jun 30, 2014|From marketpulse.com|6 comments

Month-end and quarter end considerations is making for quiet trading conditions. This is not new for the forex class - for H1, investors have been contained to tight trading ranges. To date, G10 Central Banks monetary policy has been able to ...

Submitted Jun 24, 2014|From marketpulse.com

It's difficult to get excited about a forex market whose ranges are either handcuffed by optioned related deals or a market that is generally non-fussed by either volume or volatility interest. Thankfully the World Cup is setting all type of scoring ...

Submitted Jun 23, 2014|From marketpulse.com

It should be no surprise that it's a rather anticlimactic start to a new forex week. It was always going to be hard to follow last week, where the Fed's surprisingly dovish stance had the dollar under pressure rather than in full flight and ...

Submitted Jun 19, 2014|From marketpulse.com|2 comments

For all the market worries about a UK housing bubble and US financial stability, the only market shock yesterday was the MIA Central Bank 'hawk.' Despite expressing "surprise" that the market had not been pricing in higher rates for 2014, the BoE's ...

Submitted Jun 18, 2014|From marketpulse.com|19 comments

Today's market focus is all about the Fed and how aggressive they are likely to be. The fixed income market, in particular, has been pricing in a more forceful showing by US policy makers later this afternoon, most notably on the back of yesterday's ...

Submitted Jun 17, 2014|From marketpulse.com

Euro strengthens boosted by safe haven flows. The European Central Bank decision to turn to negative deposit rates had limited effect. The policy had the intended result and started weakening the currency below 1.36, but geopolitical events changed ...

Submitted Jun 16, 2014|From marketpulse.com|2 comments

The World Cup kicked off late last week and went into overdrive in the weekend. Around the world trading desks large and small will be more concerned with injury reports and score sheets than economic releases. Volume is expected to remain low even ...

Submitted Jun 13, 2014|From marketpulse.com

Rate divergence is the key to unlocking forex's twin problems of lack of volatility and volume. Investor's interest in FX trading has waned ever since Central Banks started pursuing a "lower for longer" interest rate policy. Current G10 monetary ...

Submitted Jun 12, 2014|From marketpulse.com

Finally, something to keep the markets interested – the World Cup kicks off later today. This month long event in Brazil could not come soon enough for many, as it's sure to be a lot more interesting that watching how capital markets have been ...

Submitted Jun 11, 2014|From marketpulse.com

With little new data to chew on the forex investor continues to wander in 'no mans land' of tight contained range trading. Capital markets has been expecting a much more aggressive break out, especially with the EUR after the ECB decided to throw ...