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Week Ahead Calendar 16th March – 22nd March

16th March 2020

Markets are still seemingly paying little attention to macro data releases while central banks are cutting rates outside of their scheduled meetings. The Federal Reserve and Reserve Bank of New…

Weekly Recap 9th March – 15th March

16th March 2020

The spread of the coronavirus, which the WHO on 11th March upgraded to a pandemic, continued to overwhelmingly dominate headlines last week. Global equity markets collapsed, with many recording their…

Snapshot – 11th March

11th March 2020

It has been a dramatic day for UK monetary and fiscal policy but Sterling has barely budged. The Bank of England announced at 07.00 that the Monetary Policy Council had…

Snapshot – 10th March

10th March 2020

Volatility in equity markets remains extreme with the VIX still at its highest since late-2008 but some calm has returned to FX markets. EUR/USD has slowly edged below 1.14, GBP/USD…

Week Ahead Calendar 9th March – 15th March

9th March 2020

The macro data calendar is relatively light this week, with the exception of UK GDP figures for January and US CPI-inflation numbers in February, both due out on Wednesday. In…

Weekly Recap 2nd March – 8th March

9th March 2020

Financial markets were in turmoil last week and price action over the weekend was if anything more brutal, with oil prices and Asia-Pacific equities and currencies collapsing and FX volatility…

Snapshot – 5th March

5th March 2020

It has been another jittery session for financial markets, with news that OPEC is planning to slash production in the face of collapsing crude oil prices not doing much for…

Snapshot – 4th March

4th March 2020

A degree of calm has returned to currency markets following yesterday’s Federal Reserve inter-meeting 50bp rate cut but the performance of US equities in coming days is likely to be…

Week Ahead Calendar 2nd March – 8th March

2nd March 2020

Markets last week largely ignored macro data releases but could be more sensitive to indicators of economic activity for the months of January and in particularly February. In any case…

Weekly Recap 24th February – 1st March

2nd March 2020

Global risk aversion gripped financial markets last week, with the rapid spread of the coronavirus inside and outside of Asia, including Europe, and governments’ responses leading to growing concerns about…

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