PMI and EUR/USD - German and Eurozone Manufacturing, Services and Composite PMIs for Aug, will be released at 08:30 and 09:00 GMT+1 on Tue 23rd Aug.Although the German...
Today's important market news - Despite the US labour market showing robust growth for two months, the appallingly low Q2 GDP and retail sales figures imply that economic growth...
Daily Markets Brief - UK economic data for July will be released this week. The first set of such data, post referendum and the Brexit Impact. The CPI figures (YoY and MoM) and...
BoE and NFP - Sterling hit a one-month low today, as the Bank of England policymaker Ian McCafferty commented that more QE might be required if the UK’s economic outlook...
RBA cut rates to all-time low of 1.5% - The Reserve Bank of Australia announced a new interest rate this morning of 1.5%. Market consensus as well as many analysts expected that...
Daily Markets Brief - As we enter a new month, the backdrop to markets is one of a US economy that is slowing, whilst on the broader picture, we see a struggle for sustained...
Bank of Japan - Today the Bank of Japan surprisingly announced a modest monetary stimulus in an 8-1 vote, keeping rates steady at minus 0.1% and the purchase amount of Japanese...
Today's important market news - The creeping dollar strength I talked about yesterday had continued, closing above the 24th June high on the dollar index. Over the past two...
Daily Markets Brief - It’s not at a pace you can necessarily see, but the dollar is slowly gaining ground, not so much on reasons to be bullish about the dollar, more that...