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The second trading week of the year will see mostly second tier data from across the major economies after a rather busy start the week before. Still, despite the lack of any key economic events, the focus will be on the speeches from the…
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The global markets experienced a tight trading range throughout yesterday’s trading, as everyone was waiting for the FOMC Meeting Minutes to give us some clues about the future of the Fed’s policy. However, the Federal Reserve gave us mixed…
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The year 2016 is likely to go down in history as the most eventful year for gold traders and investors. After starting the year with a bang, gold prices surged to a two-year high led by uncertain monetary policies and weak pace of growth in…
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After last week’s notable impact due to the ECB decision, another week comes in with key events, which set to have a notable impact on the markets. This week is probably the biggest week of the year ahead of the holidays season. There are…
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Another day with lack of fundamentals across the board, yet the market volatility is expected to gradually rise through the day, as the Fed Fund Futures for December meeting hit the 100% mark, which means that traders are fully sure that…
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Global equities were rising before the start of the election, hoping for a victory for the Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. These hopes were built on public polls, which have been presenting wrong signals since the beginning of this…
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Since the beginning of the year, most political and economic events have been far from expectations. We can consider this year a year of surprises. With the US election a few hours away, should we be expecting another surprise? The short…
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Global equities suffered on two major factors this week. First, US economic releases came in with better than expected results, raising expectations for a rate hike by the Federal Reserve in December's meeting. Second, uncertainty toward US…
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The currency markets will be looking to a slow start next week with Japan, US and Canada closed for business on Monday. However, the action kicked off early with the second US Presidential debate late Sunday (Eastern Standard Time). On the…
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