Market Overview

Through March and April, we see significant seasonal patterns play out, especially through April where we see a large majority of currencies outperform the US dollar. The Australian dollar, Great...

The British pound fell this morning after the UK parliament rejected Prime Minister May’s revised plan for a negotiated Brexit. Volatility is likely to continue as parliamentary votes over the...

There were many swings in the story yesterday, but ultimately, the simple fact this morning is this: UK Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal has been voted down again.Financials drag on the...

Up, down, turnaround: It’s been a bipolar market of late. Global stocks are moving in unison, and have swung from broad-based losses on Friday, to broad-based gains overnight. US equities are...

Better than forecast German trade data and a surge in US January retail sales saw global investors continue the surge that originated in China yesterday. The optimism flowed into oil and steel...

European equity markets are in positive territory heading into the close.EuropeThere hasn’t much in the way of major macro-economic news, but sentiment is still a little on the optimistic side...

With the US payrolls behind us, we hurtle into the new week with global growth weighing on our minds, with global interest rate markets already positioned for future central bank easing. Rightly, or...

Week in reviewLast week saw the first decent pull back in global equity markets since the impressive V-shaped recovery began just after Christmas. Growing uncertainty over when and if the US and...

Could traders be betting that central bankers, in the event of a marked slow-down, will come valiantly to save markets from any economic malaise?US NFPsThe final bastion of global economic growth is...

All U.S. major indices fell every day last week Recent small cap outperformance suggests rising inflation Treasurys slide signals more pain for equities Dollar and WTI forming bullish patterns After...

Molly’s Game is a movie that has nothing to do with the markets, but every trader should see it, for this one scene alone.The movie centers around a life of brilliant Olympic skier, who after a...

Investment markets and key developments over the past weekUS, Eurozone, Japanese and Chinese shares fell over the last week on worries about global growth, but Australian shares pushed slightly higher...

This week’s release of GDP data by the ABS has generated an unusually large amount of noisy and impatient commentary about the definition of a ‘recession’ and whether or not...

Last night the European Central Bank lowered its growth estimate for 2019 from 1.6% to 1.1% in a statement accompanying its decision to keep European interest rates at 0.25%. Despite announcing an...