Markets back in the red The usual Monday morning sell-off has been less severe than we’ve seen in recent weeks, although Europe has been moving deeper into the red in early trade after a relatively unchanged open so that may change quickly. Asia ...

Just Another Manic Monday It’s frightening how normal it feels to wake up on Monday morning and see markets flashing red and down another 5%. That is the world we live in now though, with the number of confirmed cases and deaths spiking around the ...

Central banks fighting back It’s been another incredible week in the markets but one that at least looks likely to end on a positive note, with stock markets making decent gains for a second day. Source –Thomson Reuters Eikon This isn’t enough to ...

Europe Bounces on ECB PEPP Europe is enjoying a decent bounce this morning after the ECB announced a huge new pandemic emergency purchase program in a bid to ease market conditions and support the economy. The monetary easing has been coming thick ...

OANDA Senior Market Analyst Craig Erlam explains why gold has finally burst higher and discusses whether it can build on these gains.

Volatility is going nowhere but the stock market sell-off appears to have stabilized, at least for now, with healthy gains being seen for the second time this week. Once again , it’s central banks to the rescue with the Fed opting for a little shock ...

European stock markets remain comfortably in the green, up more than 1%, but are off their highs as G7 officials underwhelmed with their response following a conference call. Investors were not particularly impressed with the loose commitments ...

The weekend has not been too punishing for global stock markets, it seems, even as coronavirus cases jumped and we got some woeful PMI surveys from China. Whatever the headline expectations were for the Chinese PMIs, traders will have always been ...

Companies Warn on China Profits The stock market rally appears to be losing a little momentum, with Europe paring gains again and the US poised for small losses on the open. Investors have a knack of finding some reason to buy the dips though so ...

A flat start brings an end to yet another eventful week, as traders continue to weigh up just how detrimental COVID-19 will be to the global economy. It’s been interesting to watch investors navigate their way through this crisis as it was evident ...

OANDA Senior Market Analyst Craig Erlam discusses the rally in EURUSD on the back of some very encouraging economic sentiment surveys from ZEW for the eurozone and Germany.

GBPUSD reversed gains at the start of the week as no deal Brexit fears resurfaced following reports that Boris Johnson will make the end of 2020 a hard deadline for trade deal talks. OANDA Senior Market Analyst Craig Erlam discusses what this means ...

Sterling soars as Conservatives head for a majority The pound is soaring after the exit polls showed the Conservatives winning a strong majority in the 2019 general election. This has been a bitterly fought election that has once again divided the ...

Stocks Back in the Green Stock markets are back in the green on Wednesday, following a woeful start to the week which came as Donald Trump cast doubts on a pre-election trade deal with China. It still baffles me that investors hang on every Trump ...

Not a Week For the History Books It’s been quite the forgettable week and I don’t think today is going to be any more memorable. Thanksgiving week is, more often than not, rather slow anyway but this week has been particularly so. It naturally ...

OANDA Senior Market Analyst Craig Erlam discusses the AUDUSD pair and whether the pair is about to breakout to the upside or whether, like so many times before, this is just another false dawn. video

OANDA Senior Market Analysts Craig Erlam explains why the pound fell on Thursday despite the fact that the Bank of England left interest rates unchanged.

OANDA Senior Market Analyst Craig Erlam provides an update on Brexit and previews the week ahead including interest rate decisions from the Fed, BoC and BoJ, and the US jobs report. He then gives his analysis on EURUSD, GBPUSD, EURGBP, AUDUSD, ...

OANDA Senior Market Analyst Craig Erlam discusses the latest moves in USDCAD in light of Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party’s election victory.

OANDA Senior Market Analysts Craig Erlam and Ed Moya discuss the latest Brexit development days before the European Council summit. They also give their analysis on GBPUSD, EURGBP, GBPCAD, GBPJPY and UK100 (FTSE 100) charts.