Opinion – Tuesday 12 June 2018

The markets shrugged off the acrimonious ending to the G7 Meeting as instead, its onwards and upwards for markets, with Kim Jon Un and Donald Trump both now holed up in Singapore ahead of their historic meeting scheduled to begin at 9am Singapore time (2 am London...

Opinion – Monday 11 June 2018

The world economy’s most important week of the year? Each day this week we have a market moving event. Each carries the potential to propel financial markets and shape the outlook for global growth after signs it slowed in the first quarter. So here’s what to watch...

Opinion – Friday 8 June 2018

Just when it looked safe to be thinking about the Aussie dollar pushing up though some pretty significant resistance levels and potentially advancing back up into the 0.78s, along come the latest Emerging Market ructions to push it firmly back down in the range....

Opinion – Thursday 7 June 2018

The prospects of an end to ECB easy money sparked a sell-off in EU bonds spreading across the Atlantic and into the US. The Euro also got a boost lifting other European currencies along the way, meanwhile equities moved higher shrugging off the spike higher in yields....

Opinion – Wednesday 6 June 2018

Markets have traded in a cautious mood over the past 24 hours, despite solid data releases on either side of the Atlantic. Solid services PMI helped Sterling outperform, but a strong non-Manufacturing ISM was not much help for the USD. Core bond yields have edged a...

Opinion – Tuesday 5 June 2018

An all-round strong US Payrolls Report backed up by a better than expected manufacturing ISM drove Friday’s market moves, with some of the payrolls impact coming an hour before the release, courtesy of a 7:21am Trump tweet that he was ‘’Looking forward to seeing the...