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In the wake of the 2008-2009 financial crisis that led to the demise of Lehman brother and the onset of the “great recession”, the Dodd-Frank act was put into place to ensure that banking institutions would have the proper regulation to avoid the risk of ruin.  Fast forward 7-years and

The triggering of Article 50 in the not-too-distant future will signal a new era for the UK economy. Whether that new era will be one of incredible boom, or one of shocking bust, is hotly debated. Certainly, many of the gloomier predictions made regarding the UK’s economy, employment rate and

Investors should start looking for signs of tension between Japan and the U.S. over the near-term due to renewed concerns over currency manipulation after the Bank of Japan made a surprise move in the Japanese Government Bond market on February 3. For years, the two countries have sparred over the

The gold price finished slightly lower on Friday marking its first weekly loss since the start of the year, and failing to benefit on weaker than expected data from the US. Gross domestic product figures hit the market from America on Friday at 1.9 percent, below analysts’ expectations for a

Since the announcement of the UK determination to make a referendum concerning exiting the EU, the British Pound and European stocks starts to have disoriented effect and irrational movements. Trading GBP or any other correlated derivative became like playing 1000 pieces puzzle. You cannot combine every piece of article or

On January 23, in his first full day in office, President Donald Trump fulfilled one of his campaign promises with an executive action to pull the United States out of the Trans-Pacific-Partnership (TPP). “Great thing for the American worker, what we just did,” Trump said to reporters in the Oval

Three weeks into the new year and 21 days since OPEC/Non-OPEC countries began cutting output, we have the first meeting of representative of the cartel and several other major oil producers outside the cartel, in Vienna, to discuss compliance with the oil production cut agreement. The purpose of the meeting

The year 2017 is shaping up to be one of the most volatile and exciting times for the financial markets in recent years and we believe that two events in particular will play the most important part on how the year unfolds. As the whole world already knows, Donald Trump

I spent some time this week going over the transcripts of President-elect Donald Trump’s victory speech in November and his press conference on January 11. I was trying to match Trump’s words with intraday chart patterns of various markets. Specifically, I was looking for the number of times Trump said

US Presidential Inauguration The inauguration of the 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump will begin on January 19 and will continue for three days. This is reported in the media with reference to Trump’ the graph. The elected president said that on the first day in office as

Donald Trump believe in the American economy and markets quickly concluded that if Trump would implement his policy, the result will be a trade-in of ‘buy stocks and sell bonds’. The instinct outcome of planning infrastructure projects propels stocks market and might lead to inflation, hence, rate hike probability increases. Indeed, we

The Bitcoin fairies were at it again this week, first tempting the innocents with the big round $1000 number then smacking them to the tune of a 23% decline when they got too greedy. The price action in this market reminds me of the pork belly market in Chicago in

There’s been plenty of noise over Trump and how the relationship will evolve with China, Trump’s campaign trail leaving few with hopes of the Republican building stronger ties with China and the Orient. We don’t have to cast our memories too far back into 2016 to recall Trump’s intentions to

Although the Fed’s December monetary policy statement made no mention of the effect of Trump’s policies on the country’s economic prospects, many experts have said that Trump’s plans for massive tax cuts and huge infrastructure investment could spur the economic recovery. When asked whether the president-elect’s proposal influenced the projections

Who will we remember from this year, adding the much loved volatility to the markets, providing the investor an opportunity to flourish or in some cases…? Donald Trump would have to be ranked up there as number 1, with Janet Yellen as number two, though Trump may be a little

A number of disruptive events have made 2016 the black swan year. Brexit, geopolitical events and mostly Donald Trump convinced us that the black swan is no longer black.

Are we going to see a Santa Claus rally in the stock market this year, or did Christmas come early? Given the trend of starting the Christmas season earlier each year with Christmas in July sales, people putting up Christmas lights shortly after Halloween and the celebration of Black Friday

This week is shaping up to be an important time for the currency markets with the release of the Latest interest rate decision form the US Federal Reserve due out on Wednesday followed by an all-important monetary statement. The question is not whether they will raise interest rates from 0.50

It was bound to happen. The Donald Trump Effect has jumped the Pacific Ocean and landed in Australia. After enjoying several years of record low interest rates, Australian home buyers are quietly facing rising rates for investor loans. Fixed term rates have also been rising recently so it will just

A major clash between investors who believe the U.S. economy will heat up enough in 2017 to warrant several rate hikes by the Fed and those who believe the Fed will only raise rates one or two times next year is coming. This should affect all the Forex markets because