This week isn’t much for economic indicators, but there are a lot of market-moving events. Politics will be at the fore, with the Canadian federal elections…
The second week of the month usually has relatively few indicators. The main feature is the US consumer price index (CPI), as well as the UK…
Rates as of 05:00 GMT Market Recap For all the waiting and wondering about what the European Central Bank (ECB) might do, it doesn’t seem to…
It was 50 years ago today that Nixon met at Camp David with Fed Chair Arthur Burns, incoming Treasury Secretary John Connally, and then Undersecretary for…
Rates as of 05:00 GMT Market Recap The second graph above tells the story nicely: by and large it was a reversal day in the FX…
Rates as of 05:00 GMT Market Recap The eagerly awaited US consumer price index (CPI) yesterday had a mixed result: the headline figure was exactly as…
Rates as of 05:00 GMT Market Recap I did point out in my Weekly Outlook that just because it’s August doesn’t mean volatility goes away. On…
Rates as of 05:00 GMT Market Recap US gained against all the majors as Friday’s better-than-expected US nonfarm payrolls boosted expectations of Fed tightening. The headline…
The seemingly inexorable decline in global bond yields continued over the last week. US yields are retesting the recent lows set back in July. In Germany,…
Rates as of 05:00 GMT Market Recap Not that much action in FX overnight. While the Euro STOXX 600, S&P 500, and NASDAQ all hit record…
