Market Commentary: Thursday 20th June
Overnight Chinese banks maintained their benchmark lending rate for a 10th month straight. The one-year loan prime rate was kept at 3.45%, according to a...
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Market Commentary: Wednesday 19th June
Juneteenth today and a US Holiday, we expect market activity to be subdued. Overnight the same themes have continued with another record-breaking session on...
Market Commentary: Tuesday 18th June
Asian stocks rallied, following the US's lead. Tech shares drove the S&P to another record high, 5488.50 - the 30th all-time high this year. All other major...
Market Commentary: Monday 17th June
Overnight the Chinese Data was weaker than expected, despite stronger retail sales in May, industrial output and fixed-asset investment both posted slower...
Market Commentary: Friday 14th June
The main news overnight was the BOJ keeping rates on hold 0.1%. There was 'No Change' to QT (i.e. they continue to buy bonds at a pace of JPY 6trn a month)...
Market Commentary: Thursday 13th June
The Fed has been the main news story overnight, the FOMC kept rates on hold for a seventh straight meeting. However, in the Press Conference Federal Reserve,...
Market Commentary: Wednesday 12th June
It is not often that the financial markets are compared to buses, but the data has been light this week and suddenly we have the double-whammy of an US...
Market Commentary: Tuesday 11th June
Stock markets are in limbo as we await US inflation data and the Federal Reserve monetary-policy decision. However, in the FX markets USD strength is the...
Market Commentary: Monday 10th June
The euro has dropped 0.5%, falling alongside European equity futures and French bonds after Macron called a snap vote in a bid to halt gains for the far right...
Market Commentary: Friday 7th June
The main event today will be Non Farm Payrolls, to be released this afternoon at 1:30pm. Estimates suggest the economy will add 180k people to the workforce,...
Market Commentary: Thursday 6th June
Today commemorates 80 years since Allied troops landed on the coast of Normandy, D Day. In the financial markets this could be remembered by an ECB Rate Cut,...
Market Commentary: Wednesday 5th June
OPEC announced this week they will gradually bring backup supply (after cutting production for the last 18 months) over the course of the next 12 months from...
