Slow increase. (By Peter Rosenstreich ) • Bitcoin is confirming further recovery after 17/01/2018 collapse. Hourly support is located at 10'775 (22/12/2017 low). In the short-term, the...
Monday promises to be stormy in the Senate. The long and arduous negotiations between Republicans and Democrats on Friday have ended to a zero point with regard to the Government budget validation...
The Bank of Japan will keep its policy unchanged for now. Positive price momentum gives the BoJ coverage to keep policy unchanged, despite speculation of premature normalization. However, the BoJ is clearly running out of time, and the market know this...
This year started with some attention-grabbing exchange rate moves. Markets will now be looking to the central banks for their reaction. CIO will be watching the ECB and BoJ press conferences and policy decisions closely...
The recent US economic releases boosted equity markets to higher ends yesterday while EU markets remained on the sidelines: Dow Jones Industrial Average: +1.25%, Nasdaq: +1.03%, S&P500: +0.94% and Euro Stoxx 50: -0.25...
It has been a quite week so far for the Australian dollar. The Aussie economic calendar was relatively light, while market participants mostly focused their attention on Trump comments and fears about an US government shutdown...
The entire crypto-asset market went through a massive sell-off since the beginning of the week with the total market capitalisation shrinking by $262 billion, down to $450 billion, the lowest level since mid-December last year...
For the second consecutive year, Germany has become the country with the largest current account surplus in the world in 2017 according to the ifo Institute Center for Economic Studies (CES...
Since the recent US government bonds yield hike of last week (2-year government bond rates reaching above 2%, a 10 years high) and the market excitement that followed, coupled with possible Japanese and European central bank policy tightening, we could wonder whether we might be expecting an immi...
After printing a new multi-month high on Monday, the pound sterling has stabilised gains at around $1.3785...
2017 was a breakout year for cryptocurrencies. Despite a solid year for most asset classes and portfolios, investors have watched cryptocurrencies' recent gains with a tangible sense of envy...
The coming week will see central bank meetings in Canada, where expectations of a rate hike have fluctuated recently, and in emerging market countries such as Turkey, South Africa, Indonesia and South Korea...
The start 2018 should bring reassuring news for traditional economists as the strong US economy, with minimal slack will start producing steady inflation. Markets expect a strong rebound of US December core CPI of 0.3% m/m following a weak reading of 0.12% in the previous month...
Switzerland’s central bank is expecting a 2017 profit of a whopping CHF 54 billion! It follows a 2016 profit of CHF 24 billion, and comes after the bank’s 2015 decision to stop supporting the franc at CHF 1.20 per Euro...
German data tell the story: manufacturing sales increased 4.1% annually (expected 1.2%) and industrial production rose 3.4% monthly (expected 1.8%. Demand for European goods and services is and will remain strong...
Oil prices are at a 30-month high, despite boosted US production and inventories and a drop in the US rig count. The harsh winter is playing a short-term role, but some analysts are suggesting that 2018 prices will surge past our forecast of US$ 60-65 per barrel of West Texas Intermediate...
Everyone is going crazy for Bitcoins while few know about Ripple. Last year Ripple made a tremendous gain of 22,000% making it the best cryptocurrency. Ripple (XRP) ended last year as the second cryptocurrencysurpassing Ethereum. In January last year XRP was trading around $0...
UBS believes that cryptocurrencies meet most of the characteristics of a bubble. The one characteristic that is missing so far is that bubbles burst. Cryptocurrencies will no doubt meet that characteristic in time. It is unwise to directly bet against a bubble, however...
Who won yesterday’s election – the Catalexit crowd or the Remain-in-Spain supporters? It’s not clear! Both sides are claiming victory, and the parliament is split. Separatist parties took 70 of the 135 seats, but the pro-Spain Citizens Party won the most seats, 36...
