Recap

Market players were all over the place this week as thin trading, bank jitters, and recession concerns dominated price action in the first half of the week. Gold and JPY flexed their safe-haven muscles while “riskier” assets like…

It was a crazy busy week for forex traders as they had to balance a cornacopia of top tier catalysts, including the latest U.S. employment update and THREE major central bank policy statements. AUD and NZD took the top spot as risk…

Resurfacing banking sector woes, U.S. recession fears, and debt ceiling concerns kept risk-off flows in play for the most part of the week, weighing on higher-yielding currencies. Despite their safe-haven appeal, the dollar and the yen…

Traders were in a fickle mood throughout the week, as sentiment was influenced by earnings data, debt ceiling concerns, banking sector jitters, and Fed tightening expectations. Equity indices and commodities managed to pull up around the…

Forex volatility picked up this week thanks to top-tier economic releases, leading traders to re-price their monetary policy expectations. The U.S. dollar was all over the charts as traders simultaneously priced in higher Fed interest…

This week’s inflation and labor data releases put the spotlight back on monetary policy trends and their impact on economic growth. Unfortunately for risk assets, this week’s data releases pointed to a prolonged period of high interest…

Despite a fresh round of top tier catalysts on the calendar and traders coming back from holiday, market volatility was relatively subdued once again. Overall, it looks like traders were broadly leaning risk-on this week as inflation…

Thanks to a few top tier catalysts on the calendar, market players were able to bust out a few moves during a mostly quiet, holiday-shortened week. The main focus seems to have been fresh survey data and  economic updates that supported…

The lack of major data releases and central bank announcements steered the markets’ focus back to easing fears of global banking concerns and rising expectations of a less hawkish Fed. Risk-taking became the name of the game and volatile…

Banking sector woes were still the main theme early in the week before the spotlight shifted to the FOMC decision later on, along with other major central banks’ statements. Efforts to shore up liquidity and restore confidence in the…