In the United States, the rise in Treasury yields might slow down this week if violent protest escalates during the Presidential inauguration. In Europe, a political crisis in Italy, Netherlands, and Estonia may force the European Central Bank to tweak the Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme (PEPP) favouring certain sovereigns. In...

Our 'Macro Chartmania' series collects Macrobond data and focuses on a single chart chosen for its relevance.Click here to download this week's full edition of Macro Chartmania. This is certainly the most important chart ahead of Thursday’s ECB meeting. Initially developed by Hollo, Kremer and Lo Duca in 2012 in the...

The US dollar continues to consolidate to the strong side as the Biden presidency approaches, one that was meant to weaken the US dollar further, given the slim Democratic control of Congress, but with the market constantly trying to operate on far future expectations, it may simply have gotten ahead...

Q4 earnings season kicks into gear this week and we take a look at expectations for earnings and highlight the important ones to watch this week.Last week’s earnings releases were the starter before the main course starts this week. Major US banks reporting on Friday were selling off on back...

Positions and changes made by hedge funds across commodities, forex, bonds and stock index futures during the week to January 12Saxo Bank publishes weekly Commitment of Traders reports (COT) covering leveraged fund positions in commodities, bonds and stock index futures. For IMM currency futures and the VIX, we use the...

Price is facing bullish pressure from our ascending trend line where we could see a bounce above our support level .

Price is facing bullish pressure from our ascending trend line where we could see a bounce above our support level.

Today, we look at the weak close on Friday as Q4 earnings season kicked off in earnest and how the market is treating the JP Morgan results in particular and a preview of Netflix. Also a look at the overall status of the US dollar and how the market will...

Price is facing bearish pressure from our descending trend line and we could see a further drop below this level.

Price is facing bearish pressure from our descending trend line and we could see a further drop below this level.