• In the US, the Non-Farm Payrolls Friday will take center stage. Focus will be on whether the actual Non-Farm Payrolls will increase, however the unemployment rate as well as the average earnings...
• The ECB as expected decided to remain on hold and keep interest rates at 0.0%.In the accompanying statement the board kept the phrasing for both the size and the length of the quantitative...
• The ECB is to announce it’s interest rate decision today and is expected to remain on hold at 0.0%. Currently the market has priced in the probability at 97%, according to Overnight Indexed...
• The sixth round of the NAFTA negotiations resumed yesterday in Montreal. There were some good signs upon the restart as US president Trump said that talks were doing “pretty well”, however he...
• The US senate was able to reach a bridging funding bill on Monday as Democrats accepted Republican promises about a wide immigration debate in the near future. The agreement was made possible by...
• The US senate was unable to reach a bridging funding bill on Friday and a government shutdown was imposed. The shutdown was followed by the usual blame game where Republicans and the White House...
• The deadline for the US Congress to pass a bridging bill to fund the government until the 16th of February ends tonight. In the House of Representatives, in a display of strength, the...
• The Bank of Canada decided to raise interest rates to 1.25% from 1.00% yesterday, as the market was expecting. The statement accompanying the decision urged caution and was perceived from...
• The Berlin fraction of SPD voted against the deal for a new grand coalition (GroKo) partnership between the SPD, CDU and CSU to form a new German government, ahead of the Party’s conference on...
• The Brexit rhetoric continued in the UK yesterday, ahead of UK’s Parliament voting. Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon increased the pressure on the UK government to stay in EU single market as she...