Fundamental Analysis

Trump’s Failure Gives Putin Opportunity to Negotiate North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un arrived in Vladivostok just hours ago. He will be meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin tomorrow, Thursday, for a symbolic first encounter. Moscow has… Read More

The Bank of Canada will be holding its monetary policy meeting later today. The central bank is widely expected to keep interest rates unchanged at today's meeting The BOC’s interest rates currently stand at 1.75%. Investors… Read More

Aussie Soft Ahead of CPI Inflation  The Australian dollar is getting battered in the London session. From a daily high of 0.7133, it has dropped to a rate near 71 cents against the buck. Fear of missing CPI inflation seems to be affecting… Read More

Tonight we get a raft of quarterly CPI data from Australia. Given the data's importance for the RBA, and that we haven't had a look at inflation for a while, we could see some stronger market moves in AUD pairs following the release.… Read More

Brexit Cross-Party Talks To Accelerate Theresa May is going to accelerate cross-party Brexit talks this week as MPs come back from a long Easter holiday break. The UK's prime minister will step-up negotiations with Labour in a bid to… Read More

The new home sales report for the month of March will be released today. The data measures the number of single-family homes that were sold during the period. According to the economists polled, new home sales are forecast to show 647… Read More

Loonie Bid as US Drops Sanction Waivers The most volatile pair for Easter Monday, USDCAD, fell 30 pips from its daily open at $1.3380. This came after a news article from The Washington Post said that the US will announce the end of… Read More

Later today and tomorrow we have the release of two important housing statistics. These give us some insight into consumer demand and the economic health of the US. Previous housing data had been distorted by the US government shutdown. So… Read More

WTI prices spiked a few hours ago following a report that US President Donald Trump wants waivers to countries that import Iranian oil to end. US oil rose to $66.60 a barrel after a Washington Post article hit the wires on Monday. It… Read More