Futures Trading Education
The boost to equities and to the US Dollar continued yesterday driven by comments from US Fed Chair Yellen and supported by strong US economic data. Chair Yellen indicated that a December rate hike was a base case, noting “such an increase could well become...
Futures Trading Education
Yesterday was a trading session of digestion and reflection for the market, one week on now from the Presidential election. US Bond Yields remain supported, though that’s been somewhat more tilted to the short end of the curve where expectations of a Fed rate hike at...
Futures Trading Education
The past 24 hours has seen the US Bond market stage a mediocre rally – not quite a party – for most of the session, tilted to the belly of the curve and the long end. It looks to have been some profit taking after the surge in Bond Yields since the US election....
Futures Trading Education
The US Treasury led bonds sell off has continued yesterday after the market re-opened following the Veterans Day Holiday on Friday, buoyed by investors’ expectations of higher US growth and higher inflation under a Donald Trump US presidency. For now expectations of...
Futures Trading Education
Following the severe earthquake yesterday morning in South Island NZ, the Wellington CBD is out of action including the BNZ Harbour Quays building. BNZ Markets will be operating from Auckland / Christchurch and DR sites. The NZD fell by about half a cent at the open,...
Futures Trading Education
Prospects of greater US fiscal spending (infrastructure and tax cuts) under a Trump Presidency continue to buoy equity markets, while US Bond markets are sold on the prospects that such policies are inflationary. Markets are paying very close attention to what Trump...
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