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Last week, the British currency weakened against both the dollar and euro, as Bank of England head Mark Carney said eventual interest-rate hikes will be gradual, while data signaled the pace of economic growth in the nation slowed in the third quarter...

Kit Juckes, a currency strategist at Societe Generale, thinks there will be something serious at next Thursday's ECB meeting...

The possibility of a Fed interest-rate hike next month is at 74%, based on futures prices, shows CME Group’s FedWatch. That consensus has been buoyed by the recent hawkish Fed talk, with the U.S. dollar a big beneficiary...

IG market analyst Angus Nicholson said recently that until commodities begin to recover — in particular, copper — global stock markets will struggle for much upside...

Convinced by the minutes, Deutsche Bank decided to join the consensus awaiting a December rates increase in the U.S...

Holger Zschaepitz from Die Welt revealed this chart to show that the NYSE Arca Defense Index has outperformed the S&P 500 since 2000 by an impressive 1,200 percentage points...

Although Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen has taken a hawkish stance in her recent speeches, Craig Nicol from Deutsche Bank believes the odds of a rate increase in the U.S. are actually falling...

Analysts at Brown Brothers Harriman predict December to become “a month to remember,” with market players awaiting the Federal Reserve and European Central Bank to diverge. Meanwhile, analysts at BNP Paribas predict euro-dollar parity citing the cross-currents of Fed and ECB December expectations...

Travel stocks are bearing the burden of Monday’s selloff, reflecting fears that European tourism will be hit by worries over terrorism...

Ben Carlson from "A Wealth of Common Sense" blog has fulfilled some calculations to get really striking statistics. He notes that the worst 30-year total return on the S&P 500 was close to 850...

Looking at bond yields which are on the rise, it seems that the market is weighing a December rate hike as a very likely possibility...

European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi has spoken for 45 minutes at today's Bank of England Open Forum, however, the speech did not include any hints at fresh stimulus measures in the euro area...

Dana Lyons, a partner at J. Lyons Fund Management, has noticed in his blog post that a rally has been shrinking for tech stocks. The Nasdaq-100 is up 6.53% since the trough in September, but the broader Nasdaq market signals more daily losers than winners over the past month...

Today the Bank of England is getting ready to welcome the public to its first ever Open Forum. The event is part of Carney’s drive to end the Age of Irresponsibility in the City, says the Guardian...

The Bank of England should increase borrowing costs as early as next year to help restrain possible price pressures, says the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development...

The Paris-based thinktank has released a warning that global growth is threatened by the impact of China’s slowdown on world trade, but has also raised its forecast for U.S. growth...

“The Fed should not raise rates in December. You shouldn’t have to make a case for the Fed to hike; the case should already be made,” said DoubleLine Capital founder Jeffrey Gundlach at the 2015 Inside Fixed Income conference...

Barclays surveyed 651 of its clients globally to find out what they are afraid of, and also learn their thoughts on commodities, yields, currencies, and other questions about the market outlook...

After October proved the best month for markets in four years, Callum Thomas, an investment strategist at AMP Capital, tweeted this chart to point at non-believers, just to highlight the importance to focus on signals rather than talks...

ECB President Mario Draghi reiterated in his recent speeches the lender was judging the necessity for more monetary stimulus and was prepared for a movement at its December meeting. It would have been better if Mario acted two weeks ago, though, David Shipley of Bloomberg View writes...