Morning Update – 01/02/16 by Michela Jaccarini

February 1, 2016 Good morning! Today is the start of another week and the first trading day for February. Following a busy week it will be interesting to see how markets continue to develop, based on the interest rate decision by the US, New Zealand and Bank of Japan. This week, particular importance shall be Friday’s economic news… View Article

Morning Update – 29/01/16 – by Arjun Lakhanpal

January 29, 2016 Morning all.. After a choppy session Wall St managed to carve out a close in the positive with the S&P up 0.55% as oil rallied on rumours of talks on production cuts. But overnight the big news was the cut to negative in Japanese rates which was a shock and sent the Nikkei higher to… View Article

Decision week recap – 29/01/16 by Michela Jaccarini

January 29, 2016 Good morning all! This has been a busy week, one which we may call decision week! The FED left the interest rates unchanged as did New Zealand at 0.5% and 2.5% respectively, while the Bank of Japan cut interest rates to -0.1%. In the statement following the US interest rate decision, it was stated that… View Article

Bank of Japan at it! – by- Michael Oyebamiji

January 29, 2016 Bank of Japan surprised the markets overnight by lowering interest rate to negative for the first time in the economic history of japan. This is an unprecedented event which no economist/Analyst saw it coming. Most analysts were expecting an increase in the level of Stimulus. According to Bank of japan, Negative rates are needed in… View Article

Morning Update – 28/01/16 – by Arjun Lakhanpal

January 28, 2016 Morning all.. Wall St shifted lower after a brief rally on the release of the FOMC statement closing down 1% at the end of the session.. Asia had a more stable night as they wait for the result of the BoJ meeting with Nikkei closing down 0.7% and China down 22.5% in a choppy session..Last… View Article