Futures Trading Education
An improvement in risk appetite has helped global equity markets recover most of its losses from last Monday with the Nikkei again a notable exception. FOMC Minutes revealed an April hike was discussed, but a cautious approach appears to be well entrenched. A pick up...
Futures Trading Education
Yesterday morning markets in Asia had finished in a distinctly ‘risk off’ frame of mind, and that sentiment extended throughout the European and US trading sessions. US stocks closed with Indices averaging losses of 1% following on from the 2.5% loss in...
Futures Trading Education
Initially yesterday was a quiet trading session until softness in oil spread into other commodities as it weighed on both the Australian and Canadian Dollars. With China and Honk Kong closed yesterday, Asian equity markets struggled for direction and this theme was...
Futures Trading Education
There was nothing not to like about last Friday’s US data deluge. Payrolls just beat expectations at 215K versus 205K with trivial revisions, the Unemployment Rate ticked up to 5.0% from 4.9% only because the participation rate rose again, while the 0.3% rise in...
Futures Trading Education
Yesterday was a trading session of consolidation as we await the arrival of key data over the next six hours with ‘Super Friday’s deluge’. Overnight China set the scene following the release of its official Manufacturing and Non-Manufacturing...
Futures Trading Education
Equities and non – US Dollar currencies continue to bask in the afterglow of Janet Yellen’s Tuesday Evening’s speech and the associated re-pricing of Fed tightening expectations. The US Money Market has now less than one 25-point increase in the Fed Funds...
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