Futures Trading Education
China’s decision to reduce the Required Reserve Ratio on major banks by 50bps set the tone in yesterday’s Asian trading session and it helped the market look through a set of soft PMI throughout the region. Against this backdrop, European equities opened...
Futures Trading Education
Chicken little would have been in his element yesterday. The sky may not be falling, but plenty else is, be it the latest Euro-Zone inflation prints and Bond Yields, incoming US economic data, or China’s Reserve Requirement Ratio. The latter was cut by 50bps to...
Futures Trading Education
Plenty of official hand-wringing regarding downside risks to global growth and which was reflected in the Communique issued on Saturday after the 2-day G20 Meeting of Finance Ministers and Central Bankers in Shanghai. This included – presumably at the urging of the UK...
Futures Trading Education
It has been an interesting past 24 hours as far as markets were concerned with higher US equities despite the 6% fall in Chinese equity markets yesterday morning, but some softness in the US Dollar and lower Treasury Yields. US data prints were generally positive with...
Futures Trading Education
Yesterday was a trading session of two halves with a risk off during the European session spilling into the first part of the New York session, oil lower after a war of words with Iran’s Oil Minister complaining about high Saudi production, the US Dollar in the...
Futures Trading Education
After the S&P 500 had, as of Tuesday, recovered all of the losses suffered during the first half of February – a rally of some 7.5% – risk markets have turned turtle in the past 24 hours despite some reassuring words on Monetary Policy from both the Fed and...
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