Blog/Market Talk
Market Talk – July 23, 2015
It has taken a while but today we saw the return of the sellers in the oil market. TWI and Brent both down around 1.7%, taking TWI to 48.25 last trade. Natural gas [...]
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Market Talk – July 22, 2015
Asian equities did not stand much of a chance from the open as Apple had taken it on the chin upon releasing their results! A 7% decline in after hours trading [...]
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Market Talk – July 21, 2015
Most precious metals traders breathed a sigh of relief this morning when they awoke to see that gold was not massacred in Asia (again) and was almost unchanged [...]
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Market Talk – July 20, 2015
No matter whom we spoke to today, the focus of the conversation has been on gold’s spectacular fall. There are many rumors floating around from China off-loading [...]
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Market Talk – July 16, 2015
Yesterday, dealers spent most of the day waiting for the Greek vote and then, later in the day, Janet Yellen’s semi-annual HH (Humphrey Hawkins) testimony in [...]
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Market Talk – July 14, 2015
The markets were relatively well behaved today, with little geopolitical excitement to unnerve trading, but we did see weaker economic data in the States. Retail [...]
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Market Talk – July 13, 2015
Only an hour into this morning’s trading and the news broke of the possible Greek Deal. Bunds were hit hard (down over 170 tics) and BTP’s (Italian Govt. [...]
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On Wednesday, China’s Securities Finance Corporation — known as CSF — announced that it will lend billions to big Chinese brokerage firms so they [...]
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The bond markets were the talk of the city today in London with continued uncertainty putting a bid under the street. Bunds were up over one and half points in [...]
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The people we have been speaking to in Greece are confused and puzzled as to what will happen next and are anxious to see how things play out over the next couple [...]
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