Neil Looker

A raft of weaker US data hit the wires yesterday afternoon but despite an initial knee jerk reaction the USD is opening in Europe this [...]

Asian equities are trading in positive territory following a good session for the S&P, giving a risk on feel to a subdued FX market. The [...]

It’s been the usual pre-NFP session in Asia, not helped with Japan still celebrating golden week. The euro still languishes pretty close – the lows [...]

Asia and Europe return from the May day holidays with the market likely to range trade ahead of the all important ECB decision today. Personally [...]

The Australian CPI data came in weaker than expected with the RBA’s preferred inflation gauge the ‘trimmed mean CPI’ was reported Q/Q to rise 0.3% [...]

The risk off theme has dominated FX markets overnight following weaker data from China. The HSBC China April PMI came in softer at 50.5 versus [...]

JPY continued to weaken after the rally earlier this week against the US dollar. USD/JPY found support and buying interest around 97.45 but caught a [...]

The AUD traded a fresh 10-week high of 1.0519 following the release of the Chinese trade balance. The growth nation posted a trade deficit of [...]