Francis Dogbe / Profilo

During the course of the past three weeks, USD/JPY has plunged to establish a 15-month low around 111.00 support, re-tested that support level to form a potential double-bottom technical pattern, and then fluctuated in a consolidation above those lows...

Worries about the EU referendum, turmoil on financial markets and a faltering global recovery have hit confidence among the UK’s services businesses and knocked their growth to a three-year low...

Market Overview The trading outlook continues its improving trend as a whole range of markets show that sentiment is far less stressed than it was just two or three weeks ago...

The global capital markets are quiet today, as investors await fresh impetus which could come in the form of tomorrow's US national employment figures. There is also next week's ECB meeting that looms large for investors. The euro is trading quietly...

The question I am asked most often nowadays is this: Are we back to 2008 and another global financial crisis and recession...

Savers may one day be able to open digital money accounts at central banks such as the Bank of England but policymakers have to be careful that they do not hurt the banking industry in the process, a top BoE policymaker said on Wednesday...

Britain will hold a referendum over whether to stay in or leave the EU on 23 June. Current polls point to a very close vote. Brexit is not our base case, but the probability we assign to it – 30% to 40% – makes it a material risk...

The angst that characterized the first several weeks of the year continues to dissipate. Major equity markets are extending their two-week recovery into a third week. Immediate concerns about the US falling into a recession have eased...

The USDJPY tumbled from the "get go" in trading today falling toward the 200 hour MA and 38.2% of the move up from last weeks low. The pair has rebounded toward an early swing high on Friday and in my minds eye are seeing visions of a head and shoulder formation forming...

• EUR/CHF's selling pressures continues. Hourly support can be found at 1.0810 (29/02/2016 low) is on target. Hourly resistance lies at 1.0946 (25/02/2016 high). The technical structure suggests further weakening. • In the longer term, the technical structure remains positive...

Historically, Super Tuesday has brought additional emotion into the market, so from the perspective of a strategist that believes emotions should never play a role in this business, the influence of Super Tuesday is largely negative, but that doesn't imply that it lacks opportunity...

•USD/JPY has dropped hard in the past few minutes: •No relevant news hitting the wires, apart from news of stop losses under 112.60 •EUR/JPY hitting 3 years lows...

When the United Kingdom joined the then-European Economic Community in 1973, it was at the rearguard of European integration. The question raised by the UK’s upcoming referendum on continued European Union membership is whether Britain is now at the forefront of Europe’s disintegration...

Chicken Little would have been in his element today. The sky may not be falling, but plenty else is, be it latest Eurozone inflation prints and bond yields, incoming US economic data or China’s Reserve Requirement Ratio...

The $5.3-trillion currency market is getting harder for traders to make money in as price changes that once took months or weeks now happen more quickly, says Hugh Killen, Westpac Banking Corp.’s head of trading for foreign exchange, fixed income and commodities...

EURUSD ended Friday with a significant break, closing below channel support near 1.0950. This came after the pair failed to recover back above the 1.1060 handle after sliding below it last Monday...

With little, if anything, concrete coming out of an ineffective G20 summit over the weekend, financial markets have started to fall back again this morning...

European desks are up and running and the pound's under attack. Further to my earlier post confirming my bearish view we've seen another wave of selling as traders get to grips with the possibility/reality of the referendum vote being a lot closer than might have been perceived in some quarters...