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Hawkish Fed wages war on inflation

By Lukman Otunuga, Senior Research Analyst at FXTM Asian shares were mixed on Thursday following a rally on Wall Street overnight as markets offered an initial positive reaction to the Federal Reserve’s

16th December 2021

Markets/World

Caution prevails as investors eye Omicron and Fed meeting

By Lukman Otunuga, Senior Research Analyst at FXTM An air of caution gripped Asian markets on Tuesday as growing unease over the spread of the Omicron variant drained risk sentiment. The dollar

15th December 2021

Markets/World

What to expect from Fed’s final 2021 meeting?

By Hussein Sayed, Chief Market Strategist at Exinity Group The highest inflation in 39 years, volatile equity markets, a flattening bond yield curve, and a spreading new Covid-19 variant have all hit

14th December 2021

Markets/World

Will Fed’s major policy shift spook markets?

Investors should embrace expected market volatility triggered by the likely decision of the U.S. Federal Reserve to double the pace of its taper to $30 billion a month at its meeting this

13th December 2021

Markets/World

Crypto inclusion in Biden’s infrastructure bill is “misguided”

Cryptocurrency exchanges in the U.S. will be shunned by investors and the Biden administration will force the multi-trillion dollar sector of the future of money away from America, according to the chief

25th November 2021

Markets/World

Equity bulls stumble as Covid fears grip investors

By Lukman Otunuga, Senior Research Analyst at FXTM The mood across European markets darkened on Tuesday as surging Covid-19 cases on the continent dented risk sentiment. Austria reintroduced a national lockdown on

24th November 2021

Markets/World

Five reasons why bull market should remain intact

By Hussein Sayed, Chief Market Strategist at Exinity Nothing appears to stop the bullish run in equity markets that took the major US indices to new record highs last week. The S&P

8th November 2021

Markets/World

Pound crumbles as BoE defies markets

By Lukman Otunuga, Senior Research Analyst at FXTM In a move that confounded market expectations, the Bank of England left interest rates unchanged at a record low of 0.1%, even as it

5th November 2021

Markets/World

Stocks brush aside Fed’s widely-expected tapering decision

By Han Tan, Chief Market Analyst at Exinity Group Asian stocks are mostly in the green, in step with US stocks that rose to new record highs. The dollar index is not

4th November 2021

Markets/World

Stocks pause after ‘buy-the-dip’ makes a comeback

Βy Han Tan, Chief Market Analyst at Exinity Group Asian stocks were mixed Wednesday, while European indices and US equity futures drifted in and out of negative territory. The buy-the-dip charge in

20th October 2021

Markets/World