Negative Rates Series

Worrisome Signs Series

Un-shortable market will end in another big short

Sep 23, 2016 07:05 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks

This year, U.S. benchmark stock index is up around 5.67 percent and this is the eight year running; so it wont be anexaggeration to call it an un-shortable market. However, the biggest concern is not the consecutive rise...

FxWirePro: RBNZ defers OCR cut but expectations still linger - Arrest NZD/JPY bearish rout via vega backspreads on breach of 73.808

Sep 23, 2016 06:02 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views Central Banks

Dear readers, we had explicitly specified in our previous post toexpect more dips up to the next support only at 73.272 levels and upon breach this level, bears may even drag up to 72.239 levels again, and it seems like...

Vital Signs Series

Lowe makes the case for 'good' government debt

Sep 22, 2016 22:46 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy Central Banks

Vital Signs is a weekly economic wrap from UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden (@profholden). Vital Signs aims to contextualise weekly economic events and cut through the noise of the data impacting...

Dollar likely to grind lower as Fed cuts rate forecasts again

Sep 22, 2016 12:34 pm UTC| Commentary Central Banks

The United States dollar is likely to keep sliding lowerlike we mentioned before that one hike even if it had come yesterday, wouldnt have been enough to keep fuelling the rise of the dollar. Since late 2014, The Federal...

Central Bank of Turkey cuts key rate by 25bps, to maintain cautious monetary policy stance

Sep 22, 2016 12:32 pm UTC| Commentary Central Banks

The Central Bank of Turkey lowered its overnight lending rate by 25 basis points during its meeting today in an attempt to stimulate the ailing economy. The Monetary Policy Committee decided to lower the overnight lending...

FxWirePro: Yellow metal plays safe haven cards as FOMC tiptoes hiking expectations to Christmas

Sep 22, 2016 12:27 pm UTC| Central Banks Technicals

As expected by the majority of analysts the Fed did not raise interest rates last night. As a result, it, therefore, seems to make sense that investors seeking after safe avenues of investments in Gold, evidently this...

Janet Yellen responses firmly to Trump’s criticism of Fed

Sep 22, 2016 11:59 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks

Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump, for some time now, has been accusing the U.S. Federal Reserve of creating a false economy with lower interest rates. Trump has said that Chair Yellen should be ashamed of what...