By Craig Erlam The first US jobs report of the year was an early reminder to investors that things don’t always go their way, despite the experience of the last couple of
By Craig Erlam The Federal Reserve could not have hoped for a better NFP jobs report on Friday, but it will need to be one of a number of positive economic reports
By Craig Erlam If you’re a Federal Reserve official, you’ll find it hard not to be very pleased with the way this week’s gone from a labour market data perspective. The JOLTS
By Lukman Otunuga, Senior Market Analyst at FXTM Most Asian shares flashed red on Wednesday, with Chinese markets under renewed selling pressure after disappointing PMI data fuelled concerns over its weak economic
By Craig Erlam It’s been another fascinating week in financial markets and it’s not over yet, with the US jobs report still to come amid some interest rate uncertainty. The Fed meeting
By Craig Erlam Investors appeared relatively pleased with Friday’s U.S. jobs report, despite some initial choppy trade following the release. The headline non-farm payrolls figure was a little larger than expected at
By Jeffrey Halley Things are looking messy, especially in Forex Land where the Euro is within a hair’s breadth of trading at parity with the US Dollar Tuesday morning. Overnight, the single
By Edward Moya The US economy is clearly not slowing as fast as many were thinking as the labour market remains robust. America added 372,000 NFP jobs in June, much better than
By Jeffrey Halley Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is in “grave condition” after being shot while campaigning for parliamentary elections in the city of Nara. Current PM Fumio Kishida said Abe
By Jeffrey Halley Recession fears buffeted markets overnight, with the price action across various asset classes looking like a self-sustaining negative feedback loop, triggering more stop losses as prices slumped and dragging
