Daily Look

We enter the penultimate month of 2014 and the dollar strength that had been expected to play out this year and predicted by many a year ago as being the …

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The initial dollar strength following the FOMC on Wednesday was partially unwound as it looked like the bull run was struggling to shift up a gear. If there was ever …

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The FOMC decision last night gave us the expected historic end to QE III which really should have come as no surprise however the dollar reacted as if it was. …

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The dollar strength seen in August and September has come up against some stiff resistance in October and even yesterday’s much better than expected US consumer confidence numbers were not …

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The dollar has failed to re-establish itself as the dominant currency following a retracement so far in October and yesterday’s economic data didn’t do too much to help it as …

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The ECB’s stress tests have passed and it looks like third time lucky for the European banking sector although the focus is on Italy which has seen as many as …

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The U.S. Department of Labor reported that Weekly Initial Jobless Claims had increased by 17,000 claims in the week ending on October 18th. Weekly jobless claims rose to 283K, compared …

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There’s no doubt that a calmer tone has emerged in markets this year. Stocks have recovered for most of the week and the spike higher in forward volatility measures seen …

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There has been a common theme in the past few weeks in relation to central banks becoming more concerned with the global growth outlook and the Eurozone in particular. This …

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The CADJPY market has been falling under pressure every since the prior uptrend over extended, and was exhausted. The CADJPY has fallen into a strong weekly level where the market …

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