Daily Look

A calmer tone has emerged in the past few sessions that suggests the second half of the month could prove to be calmer than the first. We can see this …

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Stock markets have managed to reverse at least some of the losses seen over the past 3 weeks, despite the headlines regarding a possible return to recession in the Eurozone …

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The focus is firmly on the health of the Eurozone economy this morning. We’ve already seen numbers from both Germany and France, with data for the Eurozone has a whole …

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The focus switches back to sterling today as the Bank of England presents its August Inflation Report, with labour market data preceding an hour before at 08:30 GMT. Back in …

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We’ve seen some creeping dollar strength overnight, the main exception being the Aussie which has held above the 0.9250 level for the most part, aided by stronger domestic data showing …

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Geopolitical wildfires continue to rage throughout the global landscape, though a dampening of some of the immediate risks has financial markets off to a jubilant start to the week, with …

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One of the main fears last month was that markets were too complacent on the prevailing risks. Volatility measures were at multi-year lows, stock markets continued ever higher with no …

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Mario Draghi did little to surprise the markets yesterday by maintaining quite a consistent message and not announcing anything new or radical.  There was certainly a tinge more of a …

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Investors seem to have brushed aside concerns over the escalation of tensions between Russia and Ukraine as risk assets bounced from their lows yesterday, including the euro which saw EURUSD …

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We mentioned in yesterday’s note to watch out for New Zealand unemployment overnight and it came in lower than expected hitting a five year low of, 5.6% as opposed to …

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