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Vaccine rally cools as markets look to economic data

By Hussein Sayed, Chief Market Strategist at FXTM Equity markets have had a remarkable rally in November with three promising coronavirus vaccines due to see the light. US equities reached new highs

26th November 2020

Markets/World

Risk assets march higher despite worsening pandemic

By Hussein Sayed, Chief Market Strategist at FXTM With eight days to go until the end of the month, November has already added about a quarter of all US Covid-19 cases since

23rd November 2020

Markets/World

Market rally pauses, as hope clashes with fear

By Hussein Sayed, Chief Market Strategist at FXTM Stock markets are forward-looking by nature. Investors evaluate a company’s price today based on reasonable expectations about its future earnings and cashflows. That’s where

19th November 2020

Markets/World

Where will the markets go from here?

Βy Hussein Sayed, Chief Market Strategist at FXTM Last week was a game-changer in world markets. Monday’s announcement from Pfizer and BioNTech of robust results from their late-stage trial for the Covid-19

16th November 2020

Markets/World

Stimulus hopes keep stocks afloat

By Hussein Sayed, Chief Market Strategist at FXTM Equity markets in Asia kicked off the week on a positive note along with US futures, as investors digested China’s GDP data and some

19th October 2020

Markets/World

Investors return to risk aversion as stimulus hopes fade, pandemic surges

By Hussein Sayed, Chief Market Strategist at FXTM With less than three weeks remaining until the US presidential elections, investors are finding little reason to add risk assets to their portfolios. Stocks

15th October 2020

Markets/World

Dollar bulls stage a comeback, Pound tumbles across the board

By Lukman Otunuga, Research Analyst at FXTM After being badly mistreated by G10, Asian and emerging market currencies over the past few months, the Dollar has had enough. The former king of the

9th September 2020

Markets/World

Are stocks heading for a further correction?

By Hussein Sayed, Chief Market Strategist at FXTM Equity markets are showing some signs of stabilisation following two brutal days late last week which dragged the S&P 500 and the tech-heavy Nasdaq

7th September 2020

Markets/World

Tech stocks push equity markets higher… but for how long?

By Lukman Otunuga, Senior Research Analyst at FXTM Who would have expected that nearly six months after COVID-19 immobilised the global economy and hammered financial markets, US stocks would rise to fresh

22nd August 2020

Markets/World

Risk assets mostly higher as Dollar remains under pressure

By Hussein Sayed, Chief Market Strategist at FXTM Chinese stocks led Asian markets higher at the start of the trading week with the Shanghai Composite trying to retest this year’s highs, following

17th August 2020

Markets/World