Asia is the world’s largest continent both in terms of land mass and population. Now, if you add Oceania in there to galvanize the entire Asia-Pacific trading zone, you will get what researchers of the e-commerce industry have termed as the world’s largest online retail market. In 2015, the Asia-Pacific e-commerce market oversaw more than…
Forecast for the EUR/USD currency pair Technical indicators of the currency pair: Prev Opening: 1.05404 Opening: 1.05757 Chg. % Last day: +0.34 Day range: 1.05721 – 1.06029 52-week range: 1.0366 – 1.1616 Yesterday, the ECB kept its monetary policy at the same level. The regulator raised the forecast for the growth of the EU economy…
With practically all but the IPO-allocated insiders still under-water, Snap shareholders will be anxiously awaiting today’s unleashing of options of the money-burning, user-shrinking ‘camera’ company. Not been a fun ride so far… But it’s about to get even more exciting, as Reuters reports, weekly and monthly options contracts on Snap’s shares are expected to start trading on Friday, CBOE said last…
Swelling crude oil inventories certainly contribute to the majority of fears about economic slowing and of course the XOI’s influence on the market big caps. But it’s not that simple. First on Oil; it’s been rising supply rather than slackening demand, that contributes to that aspect. Even the Saudi’s in a clear-cut comment yesterday (that…
WTI Crude Oil The oil markets continue to struggle during the Thursday session, as the short-term rally that opened the day turned around and we broke well below the $50 level. This is a psychological win for the sellers, and thus I believe we are going to continue going lower. Anybody who’s been listening to…
Video length: 00:07:56 The key issue surrounding today’s February US Nonfarm Payrolls report is whether or not the US labor market will give further indication that it is strong enough to justify three rate hikes during the rest of 2017. With Fed funds futures contracts already pricing in a 100% chance of a rate…
Want a reason to get long USD? You know, besides widening rate differentials? Well how about a better average hourly earnings print in Friday’s February jobs report? That would probably help buoy the greenback. Recall that the average hourly earnings number was the most talked about part of the January jobs report. Indeed, many a…
Next week the Janet Yellen and her minions are expected, with 100% certainty, to lift the Fed funds rate by another 0.25% to 1.00%. This certainty has been building as of late given the rise in inflation pressures from higher commodity, particularly oil prices, and still rising health care costs as well as a strong…
European and Asian shares rise along with a jump in S&P futures which are pointing to a solidly green open on US payrolls day. The dollar, trading somewhat weaker against the euro was stronger against the yen, and was on track for its firth week of gains, while the rout in global Treasuries continued following…
The 10-year Treasury yield ticked up to 2.60% on Thursday… again. The benchmark rate reached that level in December (the highest since 2014) following the reflationary wave that followed Donald Trump’s election victory. But yields pulled back in 2017… until yesterday. The 2.60% mark for the 10-year Note has been a talking point for investors…
