Sam Johnson is the Managing Director at iSAM Securities. With a successful 14-year career at UBS, Sam has gained valuable experience in the world of electronic trading, leading the UBS London office, becoming the firm’s SME on FX Fixings and running the Electronic Precious Metals Franchise. Sam acknowledges the overlap between sales and trading skillsets in the systematic world, with both roles requiring a deep technical understanding of the offering, commercial awareness and the patience to understand and provision for client requirements. He envisions a future marked by both product innovation and service excellence, supporting the team in deepening existing expertise whilst also progressing to service clients who were historically out of reach.
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U.S. Election 2024: Markets Brace for High-Stakes Vote as Polls Tighten
04 Nov 2024
With over 75M early votes, the tight 2024 U.S. election stirs market volatility. Swing states and potential rate hikes drive uncertainty in global markets.
The big news this morning is UK CPI print - survey 2.1% YoY headline and 3.6% YoY core - actual numbers came in at the time of writing and have been top side...
Whilst the VIX is sitting on the yearly low, other markets are more volatile. Wheat rallied to fresh highs, posting a 2+ standard deviation move to the upside...
Metals, Base and Precious have made the headlines overnight as the price of copper and gold both climbed to record highs. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, a...
The main overnight news on the data front was that China’s retail sales grew at the slowest pace since 2022 while industrial production accelerated,...
Overnight the Japanese Yen has risen against the Dollar, strengthening 0.5% to ¥154.10, this comes as Japanese QoQ GDP came in at -0.5%, on the back of a...
Equities Globally are set for a fresh record after tech-led rallies in US indices. The S&P, the Dow Jones and the Nasdaq were all up at the close of play...
Rangebound markets overnight, Nikkei +0.39%, CSI 300 -0.23% but all eyes are on this 'Yen Story'. GS released a piece about Tourism in Japan and how the weaker...
A volatile opening Monday session, markets initially fell in response to data showing Chinese credit shrank for the first time in April and that US President...
US initial jobless claims numbers yesterday surged by 22000 to 231000 on the week ending 4th May, sharply above market expectations of 210000. This high...
Asian bonds fell overnight, mirroring the selling of Treasuries in the earlier US session. 10y benchmark yields in Australia, New Zealand and Japan all...
Asian stocks fell for the first time in a week, the Nikkei was down -1.48% as Nintendo tumbled on a weak outlook. Shares in Hong Kong (-0.73%) and mainland...
Over the long UK weekend, the equity markets have buoyed optimism that the Federal Reserve will start cutting interest rates this year, both the Fed Bank of...
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