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Overnight the Nikkei followed the US equity markets Friday performance and rose 0.8%. US equity markets rose following the better than expected payrolls...
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...
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: 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...
Market Commentary: Monday 18th March
If last week was about inflation then this week is all about Central Banks. The RBA, BOJ, FED and BoE all make announcements and for the first time in a while...
Market Commentary: Friday 15th March
In commodities this morning, front month Iron Ore traded on SGX has really fallen off and is currently trading below 100 for the first time since August 2023;...
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