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European and US Equity Indices ended the week on a positive note, boosted by a rebound in bank stocks and a jump in oil prices. Deutsche Bank led the bank rally in Europe closing up 11.8% on the day after confirming a bond buyback programme reported earlier in the...
Futures Trading Education
Fed Char Janet Yellen did her return testimony yesterday afternoon, this time to the Senate. What has caught the market’s attention is the inevitable interest from Congress in her views on, and conceivable policy responses to, current financial market turmoil....
Futures Trading Education
If I had to try and summarise the best part of three hours of testimony before Congress by Fed Chair Janet Yellen in one sentence, it would be something like ‘Janet fails to go full dove’. Certainly looking at the performance of US Interest Rates markets,...
Futures Trading Education
When the IEA released its monthly report in January, it caused quite a flurry warning ‘the oil market could drown in over-supply’. Yesterday we had more of the same with estimates of continuing stockpile builds, higher OPEC output in both January and...
Futures Trading Education
Carnage is not a word that I use very often but this best describes yesterday’s brutal price action with risk assets hammered while safe haven assets were bid. Just as a I posted yesterday morning the Euro-Zone released its latest Sentix Investor Confidence and...
Futures Trading Education
Just when many market participants including myself had started to write the US Dollar’s epitaph, it roared back to life against all major Currencies in the wake of last Friday’s Non-Farm Payrolls Report. However the Equity markets did not like the Report...
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