In the third week of July 2017, Fed Chair Janet Yellen may very well have single-handedly reversed the momentum for short term interest rate hikes at the U.S. Federal Reserve. Writing at Real Investment Advice, Lance Roberts had perhaps the best summary of what happened when the Fed’s Yellen testified before the U.S. Congress on Tuesday, 11 […]

Last week was a positive affair for the world’s major markets with all indexes making gains. In Europe over the course of the week, the FTSE was up on last week’s close by 0.37% at 7378.4; the DAX ended at 12632, up by 2% on last week’s close; the CAC was up by 1.8% to […]

Gold prices soared after a disappointing round of US economic data cooled Fed rate hike speculation, pushing the US Dollar lower alongside front-end Treasury yields (as expected). Not surprisingly, that increased the appeal of anti-fiat and non-interest-bearing assets including the yellow metal. From here, a lull in top-tier scheduled event risk may put risk appetite trends in control of […]

Consumers in the UK have been on a credit binge since the Bank of England cut its benchmark interest rate to an all-time low as investors braced for the widely anticipated economic shock of Brexit – a shock that, unsurprisingly, has yet to arrive, despite warnings from the academic establishment that a “leave” vote would […]

The shock landslide defeat of PM Shinzo Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in the recent Tokyo metropolitan elections — and the triumph there of Tokyo Governor Koike’s new party (Tomin First) — has lit a faint hope that the radical Japanese monetary expansion policy could be on its way out. The flickering light though is not strong […]