The recent NFP report showed 2.2% gain in wages in the past month, which was higher than expected. But is this rise in wages trickle uniformly throughout the U.S. society? Let’s take a closer look at this issue. The chart…
In this week’s episode we have the honor to speak to Dan Blystone of traderslog.com. We discuss a wide variety of topics with Blystone, ranging from current market conditions to technical patterns and lots more. In addition, we provide an update on Greece. Welcome…
U.S. non farm payroll showed another strong result as 257K jobs were added in January, according to recent report of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Market expectations and the ADP report were at 236K and 213K, respectively, for January. According…
The country down under is back on the news after the Reserve Bank of Australia decided to cut its cash rate by 0.25 percentage points. So now the RBA’s cash rate is set at 2.25% — its lowest level in…
Last week continued the high volatility following the recent FOMC policy meeting and US’s GDP fourth quarter release. This week is also entails important financial reports from the US most notably the non-farm payroll, manufacturing PMI, PCE, and factory orders…
The US returns to the limelight with the Fed decision and the first release of US GDP. What are the implications for the dollar? Before diving into this, we analyze the impact of the Greek elections for the euro in the short…
Many have already talked about the recent ECB QE program, which is currently estimated to reach around 1.1 trillion euros or $1.3 trillion (or perhaps $1.2 trillion now that the Euro/USD is around 1.12). So here is another way to…
ECB QE is here and it’s big: we run down the event and the impact before circling back to the big hint we received for this one week before from the SNB, focusing on the impact on brokers. The moves are of course…
Our weekly podcast came just in time after the shocking removal of the EUR/CHF floor. We begin with this and move on the very correlated upcoming event: the upcoming ECB meeting in which QE is on the cards. We then…
United States Natural Gas (UNG) started off the year with a modest gain of 1.5% (up to date). The larger than expected extraction from storage may have provided some back-wind for the recent gain in natural gas. But it’s too…