Futures Trading Education
The Pound soared 2.2% following the UK PM’s call for early elections. Polls currently put the Tories in front at 42% of the vote, up from the 37% result in the 2015 election, and there is a good chance that the government could increase its majority in Parliament and...
Futures Trading Education
Plenty of news, both economic and geopolitical, since we broke for Easter, the net market impact of which has frankly been quite modest. The risk-negative tone that pervaded markets last week and which centred on escalating geopolitical tension surrounding North...
Futures Trading Education
Geopolitics took a backseat last night with Trump’s Wall Street Journal interview dominating market moves. Trump stated the US Dollar is too strong and that he likes a low-Interest Rate policy. That saw the US Dollar immediately gap lower along with US Bond Yields....
Futures Trading Education
The global macro picture has been muddied by a rise in geopolitical tensions while economic data releases have been largely ignored and safe haven assets have outperformed. North Korea has warned of nuclear strikes if provoked and Trump’s fingers have also played a...
Futures Trading Education
I saw a UFO was the 2006 hit song by Australian Electro-pop outfit Sneaky Sound. Will geopolitics prove to be the UFO for markets in 2017? Not if you believe moves yesterday with only small changes in yields, equities and currencies, while the VIX remains at a low...
Futures Trading Education
Who would have guessed that on a day when Geo-polical stress was once more to rear its head via the bombing of a Syrian air-base by the United States, and US Non-Farm Payrolls rose by less than 100,000 (98K and with 38K worth of downward revision), that the US Dollar...
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