Opinion – Monday 3 March 2014

Markets ended the week on a slightly better tone after a wild last hour of trading for the US Stock markets. The Dow and S&P both closed up 0.3%, Gold lower, Oil prices higher with both the Dollar and Vix ending the week on the soft side. The Euro was supported...

Opinion – Friday 28 February 2014

Janet Yellen’s prepared testimony to the Senate Banking Committee was identical to the one given to the House two weeks ago, however it was a comment made during her Q&A that looks to have been responsible for a sell-off in the US Dollar and also boosted...

Opinion – Thursday 27 February 2014

Although markets globally are trading with more noise than signal in recent days there is something of a schizophrenic edge to markets at this time. Yesterday in the early New York session US Equities were trading above previous recent closes aided by unexpectedly...

Opinion – Wednesday 26 February 2014

It is getting very hard to  have something new to say about the US data at present as everything has only one explanation – the weather! Whether that is true or not we will have to wait a month or so in order to get a less fogged over picture. Markets took...

Opinion – Tuesday 25 February 2014

Equity markets made solid gains on both sides of the Atlantic with the Dow and S&P both closing up 0.6%. The S&P had made a new record high earlier in the trading session before giving back some of these gains in the last hour of trading. Helping to support...

Opinion – Monday 24 February 2014

Despite a fair amount of choppiness across markets on Friday we ended the week with US equities down less than 0.2%, US Bond Yields closed slightly higher whilst most currencies closed more or less unchanged from where they were trading last Thursday. European Equity...