US Dollar Hits 5 Month Low, The Enigma That Is Yellen Continues and more…

US Dollar Hits 5 Month Low: The US Dollar hit its lowest price in 5 months overnight. The Enigma That Is Yellen Continues: Yesterday Janet Yellen, the head of the Federal Reserve gave a speech in which she presented the markets with a riddle; a riddle that could potentially have many answers. GDP Boosts U.S Economic Sentiment: “It’s really U.S. Read More …

Sterling Put Options Boosted Due To Brexit, A Look At The Opportunities Yesterday #TradeSmart and more…

Sterling Put Options Boosted Due To Brexit: three-month volatility has jumped 2.6 percentage points to 14.5%. It appears to be the largest single-day increase in sterling volatility since 2001. A Look At The Opportunities Yesterday #TradeSmart: if you are looking for opportunities off the back of a terror attack you have to dive a little deeper; looking at Read More …

What Can We Expect from the Fed, A Closer Look at Bonds, Will Finland Drop the Euro? and more…

What Can We Expect From The Fed: While a rate hike isn’t expected at this meeting, it is really all about the accompanying policy statement and the famous dot plot. A Closer Look At Bonds: After last weeks increase in monetary stimulus by the ECB, the global bond markets have begun to pick up some steam. Up Next… Bank Read More …

The Risk on Rally Continues, China Cuts Rates…Again, U.S GDP Smashes Estimates. Are We Back In Play…? and more…

China’s Moody Outlook… China’s credit outlook was downgraded by rating agency Moody’s today The Risk On Rally Continues…, Risk on sentiment has been the tone driving the markets Could The Yens Safe Haven Status Push Above Further Stimulus…?  Could U.S ISM Be The Deciding Factor? China Cuts Rates… Again: The 50bps cut has freed up an additional RMB 689 Billion Read More …

Down We Go, Up We Go… Is The Loonie Predicting Oil? Where’s The Bear Market Gone and more…

Down We Go, Up We Go…. Down We Go…? What a ride in stocks. Is The Loonie Predicting A Bottom In Oil…? Canada has had a hard time lately, and no where else has this been more apparent than in the massive depreciation of the Loonie against the Greenback. Where’s The Bear Market Gone…? The bear is still Read More …

Markets Continue Rally, Oil Frozen at Record High Supply, Where’s the FTSE going and more…

Markets Continue Rally As Fed Minutes Reveal A Potential Change In Their Rate Path… Yesterday we continued the surge upwards in the global stock markets, as risk sentiment improves.Oil Frozen At Record High Supply…Where is the bottom and when will it stop? Where’s The FTSE Going…? We’re trading at levels that we were trading at in Read More …

Global Markets Melt, Negative Bonds, Employment figures and more…

Yen Skyrockets While Global Markets Melt, The Japanese Yen skyrocketed yesterday… Negative Yielding Bonds Everywhere; The global bond markets of the developed nations saw a major rally… What’s Going On…?, A Closer Look At Friday’s Employment Figures, Last Friday’s employment data was a very mixed bag. What Way Will NFP Take The Dollar…?  So today’s big figure is Read More …