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Originally published by Savings.com.auFrom January 2018 to 2019, 1.59 million Australians used ‘buy-now-pay-later’ digital payment methods such as Afterpay and Zip, according to Roy Morgan...

The FOMC met this morning, and lo-and-behold, the dovish Fed has proven more dovish than previously thought. Market action proves it again: this market hinges on the Fed: The US Fed has proven itself...

Index trading can be a useful tool for traders looking to take a view on the fortunes of a specific country, sector or genre of asset. There’s no shortage of different indices produced, but the...

The focus of proceedings falls on the number of hikes implied this year through the ‘dots plot’ projections. Although, the Fed will try and downplay these changes and the market is more...

Last week, streaming music service Spotify (NYSE:SPOT) filed an antitrust complaint in the EU alleging Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is stifling innovation by giving its proprietary music offering, Apple Music,...

Boeing (NYSE:BA), the world’s largest plane-maker, is reeling from one of the worst crises of its history, triggered by two fatal crashes involving its most promising plane, 737 Max. This...

Saudi Arabia gives the impression that the alliance of 25 oil producers it leads with Russia will be ruthless in carrying out deep production cuts over the next three months, and the market bought the...

Investment markets and key developments over the past week Global share markets rose over the last week helped by benign economic data. Australian shares slipped though with consumer and financial...

An easier stance from the US Federal Reserve spurred markets overnight. The US dollar fell and bonds rallied as investors contemplated lower interest rates for longer. Shares rallied initially, but...

Originally published by guppytraders.com The Hang Seng is not a substitute for the performance of the Shanghai Index. The behaviour of the Hang Seng is very different and must be traded accordingly....

Sentiment has taken a hit overnight courtesy of some unfavourable trade-war headlines. Another trade-war headline downs sentiment: There’s some news floating through the wires that sentiment has...

I suggested yesterday that the markets were not seeing the March FOMC meeting as a volatility event. With the benefit of hindsight, this was somewhat misplaced, especially if you were to look at the...

Expectations around the potential resolution of the trade dispute between China and the US were reset over the weekend. This means market attention turns to central bank activity. The US Federal...

The latest CFTC report showed that speculators remain long US dollar across the board. Euro net positioning jumped from 81k short to 83k short following a dovish ECB and another series of...

Major equity benchmarks like the FTSE 100, DAX and CAC 40 have reached five month highs as traders are in risk-on mode. Europe There hasn’t been any major macroeconomic or geopolitical news,...

Agricultural China’s worst fears have come true—no, it’s not a collapse in trade talks with the U.S. or new Trump tariffs on farm products, but rather that the world’s biggest...