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Economists are forecasting that a healthy 205,000 jobs were created in March, but the numbers may not add up as expected. Key in Friday's March employment report will be average hourly wages, expected to rise 0.3 percent and the labor participation rate, which has been edging up since October...

Britain’s current account deficit is the worst ever recorded in peace-time since the Bank of England started collecting records in 1772 under the reign of George III...

With most advanced economies experiencing anemic recoveries from the 2008 financial crisis, their central banks have been forced to move from conventional monetary policy – reducing policy rates via open-market purchases of short-term government bonds – to a range of unconventional policies...

The Big Short has been making a big splash this year, racking up five Academy Award nominations and taking home the Oscar for best adapted screenplay...

AUD/NZD rallied hard aft the Chinese data that propped up the Aussie, although AUD/USD found the 0.77 a tough nut to crack and halted the bulls. AUD/NZD however managed to score over 40 pips and ran to 1.1122 highs...

I sat down this morning thinking that I’d write some sort of April fools joke type piece saying that the Fed had raised rates in an ad-hoc meeting in a New York City bunker overnight, but I quickly decided against it to avoid being sued… April Fools Day or not, today is also NFP Friday...

Two of the world’s largest money managers are divided about where the dollar goes from here after the greenback’s worst quarter in more than five years. The BlackRock Investment Institute says there’s room for the U.S...

In 2003, Turney Duff's total compensation amounted to $1.9 million. At the time, he was the head trader at Argus Partners, a multi-billion dollar fund focused on health care stocks. Today, his life looks very different...

The Canadian economy expanded in January by 0.6 percent doubling economists expectations. This is the strongest monthly GDP figure since the price of oil was above $100 in July 2013...

If you do not understand what is happening to the eurozone economy, you are not alone...

Tomorrow is the first Friday of a new month and that means only one thing – it’s non-farm payroll (NFP). All eyes will be front and center when March’s U.S monthly jobs report is released at 08:30 EDT...

The EUR/USD is trading higher for the fourth consecutive day as traders continue to dump the US dollar after the Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen pulled a dove out of the Fed's hat earlier this week...

•A look at AUDNZD trends shows how stop losses are useful in FX trading •A bullish rally followed the prolonged 2011 to 2015 bear market for the AUDNZD •A classic AUDNZD symmetrical triangle pattern was finally completed on March 2 •The long term upside potential of AUDNZD is considerable Having...

Thursday’s a busy day for economic news, including a new estimate of Eurozone GDP growth via the Euro-Coin Indicator. Later, we’ll see the flash data for consumer inflation in Europe for March and the weekly numbers for US jobless claims...

We argue that the EUR is underpricing the potential economic disruption related to Brexit and shorting EUR/USD is a cheaper way than shorting GBP/USD to hedge for such a possibility...

Wall Street was off to the races on Wednesday, marking a potential second day of gains after dovish comments from Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen. And with that, some bullish stock talk emerged from a well-known technical pro...