US data disappoints, yen stages comeback

Send us Fan MailTrump extends Hormuz deadline, but prepares to send more troops. Dollar flexes its muscles as oil extends rebound. Yen intervention fears intensify as dollar/yen tests 160.00. Gold slides but finds support, Nasdaq falls more than 2%.Risk Warning: Our services invo ...  Show more

Send us Fan MailUS-Iran negotiations continue, but there is still ground to cover for anagreement. A weekend ceasefire could trigger a sharp correction in oil,supporting equities. Oil edges higher today, while gold surrenders the lasttwo days’ gains. Hawkish Fedspeak and another ...  Show more

After US labour market data drove up stock prices on Friday, today it is China and its government's measures intended to prop up its ailing economy that are driving market sentiment. In commodities, oil prices are trading at levels last seen in November on fears over supply cu ...

Yesterday the US Federal Reserve hiked interest rates by 0.75% in another hawkish pivot in their on-going quest to tame inflation. They also said they intend to raise interest rates a further 1.75% across their remaining four meetings in 2022

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If ETFs were living creatures, they might be cockroaches—they can survive almost anything. And yet Russia's invasion of Ukraine has presented a rare test. The VanEck Russia ETF, or $RSX, has seen its trading halted; the product holds shares of Russian companies, many of them in t ...  Show more

The Nasdaq 100 Index surged into a new bull market Wednesday for the first time in nearly three years.

Technology stocks have outperformed this year as investors speculate that weakening economic data and the risk of a recession, heightened by recent bank stresses, m ...