Author : Marc Chandler

On the very first trading day of the year, the Nikkei, DAX, and S&P 500 gapped lower, setting the tone to a particularly challenging month for investors.  The last...

The latest CFTC Commitment of Traders report covers the five sessions through January 26, the day before the FOMC concluded its two-day meeting and three days before the BOJ's...

The US dollar turned in a mixed performance last week.  Firmer oil and commodity prices more generally helped lift the Australian and Canadian dollars, and many emerging market currencies. ...

1) Korea’s Financial Services Commission will introduce a so-called “omnibus account” for foreigners investing in local stocks, 2) Malaysian Attorney General Apandi Ali closed the investigation into transfers of...

The Bank of Japan surprised the market.  It did not expand its asset purchase plan, which was the focus of many market participants, including ourselves.  Instead, following a rash...

We had been tracking the budding scandal that implicated the office of Japan's Economic Minister Amari.  We had expressed our concern earlier this week that the scandal could sap...

There is a mixed tone in the global capital markets today.  Asian shares were mixed with declines in the Nikkei (-.07%) and Shanghai (-2.9%) being offset by modest gains...

The Federal Reserve tweaked its economic assessment, but generally kept the underlying message the same.  It sees slack in the labor market continuing to be absorbed and believes the...

For at least a couple of years before the Great Financial Crisis, policymakers often cautioned that investors were mispricing risk.  Through the crisis, investors became painfully aware of many...

This Great Graphic, composed on Bloomberg shows a potential head and shoulders bottom pattern in the Australian dollar.  The left shoulder was set in the first part of the...