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The Russia story refuses to go away for President Trump, this time with rumours circulating that the President’s son in law Jared Kushner met with senior board members of a Russian bank under sanctions imposed during Russian incursion into Ukraine. The headlines come only a few days after the President failed in his bid for […]

Oil prices dropped by 10% last week, with the news of the North American production being stronger than expected. This news triggered the oil market’s price volatility. The volatility of the international oil markets fell from September 2016 to January 2017. The expected output cuts from OPEC countries including Russia caused the expectancy of crude […]

Since the FEDs increase in benchmark rate by 25 basis points last week, the gold prices have reached near the highest level of more than two weeks. In other words, the fall of the US dollar has led to further strength in gold prices. The spot gold fell 0.2% to $1.232.41 per ounce at 3pm […]

Last night’s speech by Donald Trump at a joint session of congress was his biggest and most important speech to date, but from a market point of view, it was a damp squib. Much had been made about the potential for huge moves in the US dollar as Trump was finally set to outline his […]

The FED officials have announced that they might need to increase the interest rates ‘’fairly soon’’ if the US economy stays strong. USD and EUR:  Yesterday, the US dollar was seen at its lowest level in seven weeks; with the prices accelerating the downward trend with the FED’s announcement and minutes after, the dollar saw […]

As we already know, the OPEC members have finally agreed to cut production in November; followed with the non-OPEC countries in December 2016. For the moment, the deal is valid for six months but there is more supply in the world than the oil itself, evidently effecting the oil prices. For this reason, the agreement […]

The US dollar has started this week by losing its ground and has created a different interaction on global markets. The dollar index was 0.05% down at 100.84 at 02:45 ET. The EU political risk depreciated the dollar against the Yen by pushing down Treasury yields to one-week lows of 2.4%. Furthermore, GBP was flat […]

It’s been a busy week yet again with big moves on many of the major markets, and yet again a lot of these moves have been generated by the uncertainty created by President Trump and the latest news out of his administration. With the resignation of Michael Flynn to his scathing media attack yesterday it […]

The labour market in the US remains hot and consumer spending is strong. It is vital for Yellen to decide when it is the right time to raise rates in order to cool down the US economy. As early as March or June? The interest rate decision is just a question of time, like she […]

The FX Reserves; which is the money or other assets held by a central bank or other monetary authorities has deteriorated to $117.3 Billion in December 2016 from $118.2 Billion in November 2016 in the United States. In other words, the FX Reserves in the US averaged $534.3 Billion from 1957 until 2016. The all-time […]