Market Commentary: Friday 5th April
NFPs is the main event today with payroll job growth expected to slow, albeit with a solid 200k jobs added in March. One of the main themes going forward will...
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Market Commentary: Thursday 4th April
2024 is looking like it could be the Year of the 'Cs'. Cocoa and Crypto markets have been out performers and now Coffee is joining this collection. Arabica...
Market Commentary: Wednesday 3rd April
Did anyone notice Oil yesterday? It broke above a key resistance at $85 a barrel in the front month. We are over a quarter into a 2024 and we were promised...
Market Commentary: Thursday 28th March
Global stock markets continue their strong performance into quarter end and the Easter break - S&P +10%, Nasdaq +9.25%, DAX +10.3%. Data wise today we saw...
Market Commentary: Wednesday 27th March
The Japanese Yen has weakened beyond previous intervention levels and USDJPY currently trading at 151.69, which triggered an advance in Japanese stocks. The...
Market Commentary: Tuesday 26th March
As we move to quarter end there are no strong themes with individual stories capturing the headlines; Russia linked the ISIS-K terror attack on Moscow to...
Market Commentary: Monday 25th March
This week trading activity is compressed into 4 days. Easter Celebrations shorten the week, looking at the equity markets with the S%P +2.7%, the DAX up 3.11%...
Market Commentary: Friday 22nd March
A quick recap of yesterday's Central Bank activity, the BoE was unchanged at 5.25%, the SNB cut 0.25% to 1.5%, the Norges Bank was unchanged at 4.50% and the...
Market Commentary: Thursday 21st March
The FOMC decided to keep the target range for the federal funds rate unchanged at 5.25-5.50% as widely predicted. It is still anticipated that there will be...
Market Commentary: Wednesday 20th March
An exciting day but first the activity overnight saw China leave its 5-year Loan Prime Rate at 3.95% and the 1-year rate at 3.45%, as expected. We have just...
Market Commentary Tuesday 19th March
The negative rates era is officially over. The Bank of Japan last night voted 7-2 to end the world's final negative interest rate regime and move the policy...
