FOMC Minutes Preview -by-Michael Oyebamiji

April 6, 2016 The last FOMC minutes made it clear that the Federal reserve is cautious at hiking rates due to global financial market volatility and downside risk from Emerging market most especially China. The FOMC minutes further highlighted that the committee remains data dependent. To add to the dovishness, last week the Federal Reserve chairman further reinstated… View Article

Morning Update – 04/04/2016 by Michela Jaccarini

April 4, 2016 Good morning! On Friday we saw the Non-farm payrolls figure being released with a figure of 215k, slightly higher than the 205k expected while the unemployment rate was in the negative zone of 5% as compared to the expected 4.9%. The monthly changes in payrolls can be volatile as it is highly correlated with economic… View Article