Market Overview

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management. There are 2 monetary policy announcements this week with the Bank of Canada batting first on Wednesday. After rising to a high...

Global growth has been slowing rapidly according to OECD indicator A lot of charts to get through, so let's keep it global, let's keep it simple and in basic point form. If one was to focus on the...

BoJ Happy: Welcome back to your desks for the start of another important week in the trading world which features central bank action from Australia, Canada and the Eurozone.But first of all, we turn...

Starting to hurtIf anyone has been bemoaning the lack of volatility in GBP or USD pairs, then yesterday will have shut them up. Sterling and the US dollar were boosted and laid low respectively as...

Asian markets were loving the bad US economic data today. The lower US dollar was taken as a boon for the region as it increased the relative value of commodity exports and lowered repayments on...

Anyone focusing on our opening call for the S&P/ASX 200 would think that the last ten hours or so have been a fairly drab affair, but that is not the case looking at G10 FX, commodities and fixed...

Disappointing Chinese data drove another selloff in Asia today as Chinese CPI came below expectations.Today’s Chinese CPI essentially guaranteed further cuts to the interest rate and the reserve...

As crude oil and other commodity prices have rallied over the past few weeks, some analysts have pointed to a new, resurgent age in commodity demand out of China. However, the recent rally hides the...

Is this rally for real? This is the question of the moment and the week ahead should hopefully hold a number of answers for traders.Assessing price action, behavioural analysis and fund flow data will...

Monday is a slow day for economic news, although India’s update on industrial production will provide new insight on how the growth leader in emerging markets is faring amid wobbly macro data...

This week, it was the IMFs turn to downgrade their global growth projections, which they did on October 6:The IMF’s latest World Economic Outlook (WEO) foresees lower global growth compared to...

The Aussie dollar formed a double bottom on the continuous chart with the lows on September 4th (6905) and September 29th (6908). Today the pattern was activated as it closed above the peak ( the...

Australian GDP growth was relatively flat throughout the 2nd quarter of 2015 as global commodity prices remained severely depressed. The GDP result was well below expectations, indicating growth of...

The US dollar fell against most of the major and emerging market currencies for the second consecutive week. The combination of market positioning, weak confidence that the Fed will hike rates this...