Last week was a positive affair for the world’s major markets with all indexes making gains. In Europe over the course of the week, the FTSE was up on last week’s close by 0.37% at 7378.4; the DAX...
Written by my colleague Dr. Win Thin EM FX ended the week on a firm note, helped by softer than expected US data. Indeed, EM FX was up across the board for the entire week and was led by BRL, MXN, and...
Gold prices soared after a disappointing round of US economic data cooled Fed rate hike speculation, pushing the US Dollar lower alongside front-end Treasury yields (as expected). Not surprisingly...
Recently the main talk in markets was reflation, but about 2 years ago everyone was talking about deflation: why deflation was structural, all the thematic aspects of deflation, and new normal and n...
Consumers in the UK have been on a credit binge since the Bank of England cut its benchmark interest rate to an all-time low as investors braced for the widely anticipated economic shock of Brexit –...
The dollar hovered near a 10-month low during early Asian trading as investors continued to doubt whether the United States would tighten monetary policy as aggressively as originally expected. Data o...
The shock landslide defeat of PM Shinzo Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in the recent Tokyo metropolitan elections — and the triumph there of Tokyo Governor Koike’s new party (Tomin First...
Gold prices settled at $1228.82 an ounce on Friday, gaining 1.35% on the week, as the dollar fell after weaker-than-expected U.S. inflation data reduced the market’s expectations for a Federal Reser...
Share markets in India are presently trading marginally higher. Sectoral indices are trading on a mixed note with stocks in the IT sector and metal sector witnessing maximum buying interest. FMC...
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