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Germany’s IFO business climate will shed some light on the mood in Europe’s biggest economy on Monday, followed by consumer confidence in the US on Tuesday and the University of Michigan Sentiment Index on Friday...

Markets have completely priced in a 25bp rate hike by the Bank of Canada by the end of 2017 leaving room for economic disappointment. We believe it’s too early for the BoC to be thinking about higher rates. With front-end yields at the near term high, we doubt that CAD will have much more upside...

More than a week after the FOMC lifted borrowing costs in the US, financial markets - particularly the equity market - have been treading water as investors struggle to find a new driver. Both the Euro STOXX 50 and S&P 500 are about to close the week flat...

We continue to suspect that markets are underpricing the probability of a BoE policy adjustment. We suspect that as with the Fed, the threshold of removal of emergency measures is significantly lower than standard interest rate hikes...

After the usual March-April contraction, Switzerland’s trade surplus bounced back in May amid a sharp recovery in exports. The trade surplus rose to CHF 3.4 billion in May from CHF 1.96 a month earlier. Exports - in real terms - increased 2.9% m/m while imports eased to 2% m/m...

No one should think that Amazon’s (AMZN) innovative play for Whole Foods is a done deal. News of Amazon’s acquisition of the grocer (WFM) for $13.4bn shocked up the grocery industry and sent big box retailers' stocks tumbling...

Yesterday's collapse of oil to a seven-month low clearly punctuates the demise of OPEC in our view. The thin veil of control that markets provided to this dysfunctional committee is no longer...

A week after the SNB kept rates unchanged, the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs in Bern has issued economic forecasts for Switzerland. The GDP growth in 2018 is expected to reach 1.9% y/y (currently at 0.9%). In the same time, the SECO is forecasting exports to reach 3...

The Brazilian real was unable to recover completely from the panic sell-off that took place after the alleged corruption of President Michel Temer. After spiking USD/BRL to 3.40, the real stabilised at between 3.25-3.30, far above the 3.10 level prior to the revelations...

Banxico is clearly following the Fed rate. The Mexican central bank even changed its agenda in 2015 to carefully follow the Fed meetings and to maintain a rate differential to avoid any capital outflow. Tonight the institution will raise to 7...

Roughly one year after the British referendum, the Brexit negotiations officially start today in Brussels. This will be a long and winding road for the UK government, particularly since the Conservative party lost its majority in the House of Commons...

Heading to support at 43.76 • Crude oil is finally continuing its decline since the recent collapse from $52. Support is given at a distance 43.76 (05/05/2017 low). Expected to show further decline...

Selling pressures continues. • Silver declines. Closest support is given at 16.44 (18/05/2017 low). Strong support is given at 16.06 (09/05/2017 low). Key resistance is given at a distance at 19.00 (09/11/2017 high). The...

Monitoring uptrend channel. • Gold is now monitoring the lower bound of the uptrend channel. Hourly support is located at 1249 (intraday low). Stronger support is given at 1214 (09/05/2017 low). Expected to show...

Failing to hold above 1.0900. • EUR/CHF's bearish pressures are back. Yet, we believe that the medium-term pattern suggests us to see continued bearish pressures towards hourly support that can be found at 1.0792...

Bearish pressures increase. • EUR/GBP is back below former support given at 0.8787 (13/03/2017 high). Other support can be found at 0.8652 (08/06/2017 low). Expected to further decline...

Monitoring symmetrical triangle • EUR/JPY has bounced back after breaking hourly support given at 122.56 (18/05/2017 low) has been broken. Hourly resistance can be found at 125.82 (16/05/2017 high). Major support is...

Profit-taking. • AUD/USD is pushing higher since the pair has failed to reach hourly support given at 0.7329 (09/05/2017 low). The technical structure is clearly positive and the pair should head towards...

Trading sideways. • USD/CAD has strongly declined and is now consolidating. Hourly support lies at 1.3165 (14/06/2017 high). Expected to show continued weakness towards support given at 1.3010...

Bearish pressures arise. • USD/CHF is pushing lower. Hourly resistance given at 0.9727 (09/06/2017 high) has been broken. Strong resistance is given at 1.0107 (10/04/2017 high). Expected to show continued...