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(Source - Pexels/Min An ) Currency market volatility has been a consistent problem in emerging markets. Year after year, currencies are devalued in an attempt to boost economic growth but only serve to worsen external debt problems. Last year was particularly bad as we saw major dec...

By Jeffrey Halley Oil futures leapt this morning by over 15% in a knee-jerk reaction to the attack on the Saudi Arabia Abqaiq oil facility over the weekend that notionally, took 5% of the world's supply offline. Brent futures spiked by 20% and WTI futures by 15% despite U.S. President Trum...

Overview: The momentum from the end of last week carried into yesterday's activity, but the momentum began fading. Today, equities were mixed in Asia Pacific and weaker in Europe. The Dow Jones Stoxx 600 reversed lower yesterday and slipped further today. The S&P 500 may gap lower at the...

The White House is unlikely to comment on it, even if it is aware that the Chinese yuan was the third strongest currency in the world last week. The British pound was the strongest, rising a little less than 1% against the dollar and snapping a 14-week plummet against the euro. None of the o...

The dollar was mostly weaker against the major currencies last week. The Swiss franc and Japanese yen were joined by the seemingly unlikely candidate, the Swedish krona, to have gained about 1% against the US dollar last week to the lead the majors. The yen and franc's gains extended moves a...

Overview: The challenges for investors have not gone away, but a combination of factors has helped stabilize the capital markets. The PBOC set the dollar's reference rate above CNY7.0, but not as high as anticipated, and this has seen the yuan strengthen modestly today. Meanwhile, the strong...

Overview: While investors keep a watchful eye on the dollar fix in China (a little firmer than projected) and tensions with the US, two other developments compete for attention. The Reserve Bank of New Zealand and the central banks of India and Thailand surprised the market with lower rates....

Back in May, I made the argument that a weaker Swedish krona could significantly boost exports going forward, which would lead to significant outperformance by certain sectors on the Swedish stock market. I wish to delve deeper into this point in this article. Recently, the Riksbank (Swede...

By Erik Norland For the past eight years, the U.S. dollar ((USD)) has been on an upward trend, rising substantially against most of its peers. Support came from three sources: An improving U.S. fiscal situation from 2010 to 2016. Substantially tighter monetary policy since 2016. ...

Are currency markets sounding the all clear this morning? It's early to truly make a call, but interesting signals are developing: Trade conflicts between China and the US may be unresolved, but FX markets are beginning to signal that it may be safe to dive back into the risk pool. Though wa...