Daily Look

The Japanese election results were always about the extent of Abe’s victory, rather than whether he would win. The headline results were positive, with two-thirds of seats won in the …

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The overnight session started off with weak industrial output data from China, adding to the confirmation of the country’s economic slowdown. Once increasing by close to 20% back in 2010, …

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The result of the TLTROs was rather disappointing as the uptake came in at the lower end of targets. The main issue with this is that the ECB’s balance sheet …

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Global markets have stabilized a bit Thursday after Wednesday’s furious sell-off sparked by news of fresh policy measures in China and OPEC’s lowest output forecast in twelve years. US equity futures …

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Yesterday saw further profit talking in the dollar with USDJPY dipping back to the mid 118 area, now sitting figure bid at the time of writing and EURUSD is recovering …

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Overnight we’ve seen the Chinese rate of inflation fall to a five year low and once again this is further evidence that deflationary pressures from the substantial declines in the …

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The dollar has retained the firmer tone gained in the wake of the jobs report of Friday, which showed further strong headline growth, together with better earnings data and a …

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A stellar US non-farm payroll report showed that the private sector created 321,000 jobs in November with the unemployment rate remaining steady at 5.8%, representing the largest monthly job gain …

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As usual, the euro was buffeted around by the verbal gymnastics of the ECB President on Thursday. Reading between the lines, the ECB does not yet have the internal agreement …

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There have been some positive moves in stock markets this week, with US indices once again touching highs for the year and stocks in Asia also in positive territory. The …

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