Ahead of the upcoming US data and Powell’s speech, investors seemed happy thus far in today’s session to keep the focus on more stimulus after the Fed announced to buy individual corpor...

Copper prices fell in response to the risk-off sentiment overnight and after fresh Chinese data dampened hopes for a speedy recovery and raised fears over demand, and as new Covid-19 cases in Beiji...

The main reason behind today’s sell-off is concerns over a second wave of infections. For investors, it all about the economic damage that a potential second wave could cause, rather than mer...

While the economic calendar is fairly light next week, we do have three major central bank meetings to look forward to. But the focus will be on an uptick in new covid-19 infections after Thursday&...

Please find below my latest comments and analysis on stocks, crude oil and gold following Thursday’s big plunge in equity indices.

After looking rather bleak in the aftermath of US jobs report last Friday, gold has stormed back to life in the subsequent days as investors realised the stronger May employment report had not chan...

Last night, the Fed re-assured investors on its QE programme and indicated interest rates will remain near-zero through to 2022. This should keep the bulls happy for a while yet despite today&rsquo...

The US dollar continued to sell-off, but it could turn more volatile around the time of the FOMC policy decision later this evening at 19:00 BST.
 

Today’s key fundamental event is likely to be the FOMC’s policy decision on stimulus measures. Virtually everyone expects the Fed to keep interest rates on hold. However, if there are a...

For now, and despite today’s weakness, one must assume that the uptrend is still intact until the charts tell us otherwise. Momentum has been bullish, and we could see further follow-through,...