Opinion – Monday 27 April 2015

Almost without irony, I have to report that Friday’s US Durable Goods Orders Report was sufficiently weak to power US stock indices to new record highs, such was the ‘zero for longer’ interpretation of the data. Not the better than expected +4% headline read-out, but...

Opinion – Friday 24 April 2015

It was a case of softer than expected readings on both sides of the Atlantic overnight, but in the wash up, the market was inclined to give more credence to the softer suite of US economy reports than for Europe’s.  The Bloomberg spot dollar index in net terms is off...

Opinion – Thursday 23 April 2015

Stock markets continued their recent intra-day volatility over the past 24 hours as the divergence between the German DAX and the US Equity markets narrowed again yesterday with the DAX closing down 0.6% on more Greek worries. Meanwhile the S&P which was down...

Opinion – Wednesday 22 April 2015

Markets in general have been in a holding pattern over the past 24 hours with the US Dollar giving up some of its gains that it made on Monday. The German ZEW Survey for April came and went without fanfare, despite the Current Conditions spiking sharply higher as the...

Opinion – Tuesday 21 April 2015

The RBA’s Glen Stephens spoke yesterday, and some of his words clearly resonated in the FX market if less so in interest rate markets. Newswire headlines screaming ‘Question of interest rate cuts has to be on the table’ and ‘Aussie Dollar will very likely fall...

Opinion – Monday 20 April 2015

Following the savaging meted out to Global Stock markets across the board on Friday, markets are stable to higher this morning after yesterday’s news of a 1% cut to China’s Reserve Requirement Ratio, to 18.5% which is effective today. This is double the size of the...