For the last several weeks, we have been opening our weekly reviews of the markets with one of the two announcement: they had a brilliant week beating everyone’s expectations, or their performance was disastrous....

On Monday, December 7 oil prices were heading towards their seven-year lows, as traders were pricing in OPEC’s decisions from the intense seven-hour meeting last Friday. Brent crude, which is traditionally treated as a...

Last week, situation in the Eurozone has noticeably changed. It’s all right, the Quantitative easing stays in its place and the ECB rates keep on falling. At the same time, the era when everyone...

Quarterly GDP in the US was revised up to 2.1%, overshooting market expectations of precise 2% for the third quarter of 2015. This is the sixth time in a row when the recovery of...

Tuesday morning, NATO forces in Turkey pranged a Russian plane, Su-24, which was performing its operation in Syria bombing strategic points of ISIS. Despite Moscow and Ankara having different views on whether the plane...

After the largest plunge this autumn two weeks ago, US equities surprised investors with what was the best week-on-week performance this year. All major indicators were well in the green zone: S&P gained 3.3%...

During the last month, the bearish trend in EURUSD regained its momentum – the main pair has lost 8% for the last four weeks. In particular, the first week of November, when the confidence...

Last week was dismal for global equities, as US and EU stocks took a strong hit from a grim OPEC oil price outlook, resulting in the worst week on Wall Street since the August...

This week has been anything but peaceful for financial professionals across the globe. After months of sending blurred messages about the direction of the Fed’s monetary policy, Janet Yellen has finally given the markets...

The last week in the equity markets was truly eventful, as news kept on coming from all parts of the world. US stocks suspended their six-week upswing as investors’ expectations went up to 70...