Currency Analysis & Opinion

As the USA and China continue to implement punitive duties, trade surplus records are occurring.China’s June surplus is estimated at USD 41.61 billion, its highest rate since the beginning of...

King dollar made a remarkable return on Friday after the US and China have signalled their intention to sit at the negotiation table. The New Zealand dollar performed the worst among the G10 complex...

The pound is trading lower against all its major peers after comments from US president Trump late last night that claimed the Brexit blueprint published yesterday has probably killed hopes of a UK-US...

For the second day in a row the markets ignored Donald Trump’s aggressive posturing to rebound, climbing back towards the levels abandoned at the start of the week. Not that there wasn’t...

The timing of US President Trump landing on British soil couldn’t have been worse for Prime Minister Theresa May. The same day that she publishes her white paper outlining the post Brexit UK-EU...

After a rocky Wednesday, financial markets stabilised on Thursday as trade war fears eased. Asian moved back up with the Nikkei rising 1.17%, while Chinese equities rebounded strongly with the...

Trade war concerns resurfaced overnight when news broke out that the US will announce tariffs on further $200 billion of imports from China with levies of 10% on the products. China said it was...

Market OverviewAfter the “first shot” in the trade war was fired by the US last Friday (the $34bn worth of tariffs were quickly reciprocated by a similar move by China), Donald Trump has...

May’s cabinet is changing its course. After the departure of David Davis, former Brexit Minister, it was the turn of Boris Johnson, Foreign Secretary to step down later in the afternoon. As both...

Bulls made their great return on Monday on the back of disappointing wage growth on Friday that should ensure the Fed would act less aggressively than anticipated.The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose...

A broadly fine morning for UK data prevented the pound from gathering any momentum as Tuesday went on.The first in a new release schedule, the GDP reading for the 3 months to the end of May averaged...

After a three-month rally for the US dollar, the month of July started on the back foot last week as the likes of the euro, pound and Aussie all found some much-needed support. But the yen was lagging...

Politics is once again driving the direction of the pound. The immediate FX reaction to the news that the Foreign Secretary had resigned was a sharp drop in sterling as the market digested the second...

The BTC/USD pair is changing hands around $6,600 on Tuesday after another failed attempt to challenge the $6,800 key immediate resistance on the way to the $7,000 threshold. The optimism has been...