By Hussein Sayed, Chief Market Strategist at FXTM After a brief celebration of a new intraday record high on the S&P 500 and a two trillion Dollar market cap for Apple on
By Han Tan, Market Analyst at FXTM Investors have been reluctant so far to send benchmark stock indices to new record highs since the Covid-19 pandemic, despite coming tantalisingly close. Asian stocks
By Han Tan, Market Analyst at FXTM Investors will have a lot to digest on Friday, with several key themes set to play out ahead of the weekend. Risk assets are taking
By Stefan Nolte The price of gold surged almost every month this year, based on EUR prices, by 4.83% in July, 1.78% in June, 1.10% in May and 7.75% in April, while
By Lukman Otunuga, Research Analyst The week kicked off with a bang as Gold charged through the 2011 record high of $1921 on Monday amid Dollar weakness, negative real yields and US-China tensions. Interestingly, global equities
By Hussein Sayed, Chief Market Strategist at FXTM Unlike the typical start of a trading week, Monday has kicked off with big market moves. Following six days of steep gains, Gold has
By Han Tan, Market Analyst at FXTM Asian markets and US stock futures are taking a hit, following China’s tit-for-tat decision to order the US consulate in Chengdu to close. This follows
By Hussein Sayed, Chief Market Strategist at FXTM Tensions between the world’s two largest economies are on the rise. After ordering the shutdown of China’s consulate in Houston and claiming two Chinese
By Lukman Otunuga, Senior Research Analyst at FXTM The sentiment pendulum is positioned to swing deeper into ‘risk-on’ territory as markets take heart from vaccine hopes and expectations of further stimulus for
By Han Tan, Market Analyst at FXTM Risk appetite is stepping hesitantly into the second half of the year, with most Asian stocks edging higher, while US futures slipped into the red
