Even though the oil market has experienced high volatility, this hasn’t translated to sharp movement in precious metals prices. The U.S. GDP report came slightly short and Yellen’s testimony didn’t offer any big headlines, which left the bullion market to…
The financial markets shifted focus from Yellen to Yemen, which kept the high volatility mainly over the rising tensions in the Middle East. This week, the main report will to be released is the NF payroll. Other U.S. reports include:…
This week we have the pleasure to interview David Stein of Money for the Rest of Us, a fellow podcast host. We talk about investments, the smoke and mirrors around QE and lots more. You are welcome to listen, subscribe and provide…
The bullion market got some positive news from the FOMC: The expected cash rate by the end of 2015 and 2016 – based on the dot plot – was revised down. This provided backwind for interest rates to come down,…
The FOMC’s latest meeting provided additional volatility to the financial markets as the tone was slightly more dovish than expected. The aftermath of this meeting is likely to further linger in the financial markets in the coming days. On this…
The Fed said its word and stirred markets. But what exactly was in there? We dissect the carefully crafted words from the world’s most important central banks, the underlying state of the US economy, market reactions now and looking forward regarding currencies, commodities,…
The U.S. dollar continued to rally mostly against the Euro as the ECB commenced its QE program and the previous NFP report raised the market expectations for a rate hike this year by the FOMC. This week, the FOMC meeting…
This episode of Market movers is dedicated to Quantitative Easing (QE). This happens as the “QE baton” is passed from the Federeal Reserve to the ECB. These banks are not alone. We define and explain it, review the main uses, the…
The recent NFP payroll report showed, yet again, another strong gain in jobs with 295K jobs added last month and rate of unemployment fell to 5.5%. This news fueled gains in the U.S. dollar and dragged down gold and silver…
The Non-Farm Payrolls report is critical for the US dollar – we explain why and what to expected. In addition, our packed show features a debate on false breaks, the Australian and Canadian rate decisions, a potential easing in Japan,…