Francis Dogbe / Blog
Europe's economic malaise has a lot to do with its crippled banking system. Making that system more fragile seems like the wrong way to address the issue...
The yen's surge may be easing. It made a new marginal high in Asia, but has not been able to sustain it Technically, a hammer candlestick pattern may be traced out by the greenback's recovery today. Supporting the greenback is the movement in interest rate differentials...
Many analysts had anticipated that a dramatic drop in oil prices such as we’ve seen since the summer of 2014 could provide a big stimulus to the economy of a net oil importer like the United States. That doesn’t seem to be what we’ve observed in the data...
Divergences are one of my favorite trading concepts because they offer very reliable high-quality trading signals...
JP Morgan Chase, a major stakeholder in the London Stock Exchange (LSE)-traded UK forex broker Plus500 (LON:PLUS) announced it has reduced its share in it by almost two thirds – from 8.99% to 3.05% by selling 6 829 806 of its shares...
Hedge funds betting that oil’s rally was over missed an 11 percent gain after U.S. crude inventories unexpectedly fell. Short positions in West Texas Intermediate crude jumped 35 percent in the week ended April 5, according to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission...
Mark Carney could face a challenge in just over two months, regardless of whether Britons choose to stay in or quit the European Union...
Last week saw a bit of a change in market dynamics and I have also noticed it in the way how setups presented themselves in my own trading. A look at CNN’s fear and greed index confirms that – the last few weeks have been dominated by extreme greed and markets were in complete risk-on mode...
•Some economists have revised down their GDP forecasts for the US for Q1 •Japanese policymakers may intervene to curb the strengthening yen •Oil rose by more than 4% on EIA data that showed US crude output was down •There is support for gold and ETF holdings, even in this ‘risk on’ environment •B...