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Latest News Headlines
Bloomberg: Stocks Resume Declines; Treasuries Pare Losses: Markets Wrap
Asian stocks reversed earlier gains to trade lower as investors continued to mull the implications of the recent run-up in bond yields. The dollar slipped after President Donald Trump delivered his first State of the Union speech in Washington. [more...]
Bloomberg: How This Market Downdraft Is Playing Out Across the World
One of the best starts to a year in recent history for global stock markets is ending with a bump as volatility spikes and a bond selloff deepens, with investors assessing whether prices ran too hard in too short a space of time. [more...]
Bloomberg: Warnings on Correction in Asia, Hong Kong Stocks Grow Louder
Morgan Stanley is eyeing a “meaningful” dip in the Hang Seng Index within weeks, while Goldman Sachs Group Inc. says the MSCI AC Asia Pacific excluding Japan Index could drop more than 10 percent. Both gauges are enjoying one of their longest bull runs on record, entering its 717th day. [more...]
Bloomberg: VIX Securities Get Traded Like Crazy After Volatility Picks Up
As investors reassess the record bullishness in risky assets, the Cboe Volatility Index is rising for a second straight day, touching the highest level in more than five months. That result: ETPs that tie their fortunes to the VIX -- either by tracking or shorting futures on the gauge -- have begun to furiously change hands. [more...]
Bloomberg: On Closer Inspection Your Blockchain ETF May Be a Tech Fund
Sizzling new blockchain exchange-traded funds have raked in cash at an unprecedented pace, raising almost $260 million in less than two weeks. [more...]
Bloomberg: SEC Freezes Crypto Assets of $600 Million Initial Coin Offering
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission obtained a court order freezing the assets of a Texas-based initial coin offering that claimed to have raised more than $600 million. [more...]
Reuters: Fed expected to keep interest rates steady as Yellen era ends
The Federal Reserve is expected to leave interest rates unchanged on Wednesday while signaling a gradual tightening of monetary policy later this year as the U.S. economy continues to expand and job gains remain solid. [more...]
Reuters: Asia stocks slip as high bond yields weigh, dollar steadies
Asia stocks pulled further back from record highs on Wednesday as the recent rise in global bond yields weighed on equities, while the dollar steadied ahead of the Federal Reserve’s policy decision. [more...]
CNBC: UK's May wants free trade with China. Beijing has its own goals
British Prime Minister Theresa May landed on Wednesday in China, where she will be seeking a free trade agreement ahead of the U.K. exiting the European Union trade bloc. [more...]
Currency Strength Indicators
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​​​​​​​The currency strength meter gives you a quick visual guide to which currencies are currently strong, and which ones are weak. The meter measures the strength of all forex cross pairs and applies calculations on them to determine the overall strength for each individual currency. For example, if EUR is strong and USD is weak, it could mean that the currency pair EURUSD could be going up. If both currencies are strong or weak it is better to avoid since it will probably means there is no clear direction for the specific pair. To get the latest Currency Strength Indicator please click here

Todays Markets

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Trading Sentiment
Below is the latest sentiment as compiled by etoro, the world's largest (social) trading network. It provides a view of what individual investors think about the specific instruments and gives a view of the current sentiment.
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Latest News Headlines
Bloomberg: Asian Stocks Fall With U.S. Futures as Bonds Drop: Markets Wrap
Equities fell across Asia and U.S. stock-index futures retreated as a selloff in government bonds deepened and investors took profits after one of the best starts to a year in recent history. The dollar edged higher after Monday’s decline and oil dropped for a second session. [more...]
Bloomberg: Goldman Gauge of Market Health Flashing Green for Economy Growth
Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s index of financial conditions broke through its internet bubble trough to reach a record low Monday, signaling that the economy may be poised to pick up steam. [more...] 
Bloomberg: Market Euphoria May Turn to Despair If 10-Year Yield Jumps to 3%
It’s getting harder and harder to quarantine the selloff in Treasuries from equities and corporate bonds. The benchmark 10-year U.S. yield cracked 2.7 percent on Monday, rising to a point many forecasters weren’t expecting until the final months of 2018. [more...]
Bloomberg: Macro Hedge Fund That Made 47% Says Dollar Isn't Done Falling
Former Credit Suisse Group AG trader Charlie Chan, whose macro hedge fund surged 47 percent last year to beat rivals, is holding on to bearish bets on the dollar. For now. [more...]
Bloomberg: Record Crypto Heist Raises the Appeal of a New Type of Exchange
A more than $500 million record heist from a Japanese cryptocurrency exchange, the latest in a long line of high-profile hacks, is directing attention to a new kind of venue that makes it harder for would-be thieves. They’re not, however, impervious to attack. [more...]
Bloomberg: London Home Prices Rise at Slowest Pace Since 2011 in Buyer’s Market
London is turning into a buyer’s market for houses and apartments as values rise at the slowest pace in six years and vendors are forced to cut asking prices to achieve sales. [more...]
Bloomberg: Risk Assets in Danger Zone as Bull Feeding Time Is a Frenzy
Record bullish positions are building up across currency, equity and commodity markets as hedge funds and real-money investors dump the dollar and U.S. Treasuries to crowd into risk assets around the world. [more...]
Bloomberg: Pound's Slide May Extend Below $1.40 as Focus Turns to Politics
The pound could surrender some of its recent gains to fall back below $1.40 as U.K. political drama collides with a market that’s positioned for further sterling strength, according to Mizuho Bank Ltd.’s Neil Jones. [more...]
Reuters: Asia stocks off record highs as Wall St. flags, dollar firms on higher yields
Asian stocks retreated from record highs on Tuesday after a selloff in Apple shares and spike in bond yields knocked Wall Street lower, while the dollar found support as U.S. bond yields climbed to near four-year highs. [more...]
CNBC: Why Apple sells just 2.5% of India's smartphones
Ten years after Apple began selling iPhones in India, perhaps the last great growth market for the iconic handset, the company is inching toward opening stores in the nation. [more...]
CNBC: Italy's election could put the country on a collision course with the rest of Europe
In about six weeks' time, two of Europe's largest economies are likely to have no-one in charge. With German coalition talks hitting a stumbling block of their own and unlikely to reach a conclusion before Easter, the other hurdle is Italian elections on March 4. [more...]
Currency Strength Indicators
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​​​​​​​The currency strength meter gives you a quick visual guide to which currencies are currently strong, and which ones are weak. The meter measures the strength of all forex cross pairs and applies calculations on them to determine the overall strength for each individual currency. For example, if EUR is strong and USD is weak, it could mean that the currency pair EURUSD could be going up. If both currencies are strong or weak it is better to avoid since it will probably means there is no clear direction for the specific pair. To get the latest Currency Strength Indicator please click here

Todays Markets

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Trading Sentiment
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Latest News Headlines
Bloomberg: Five Things You Need to Know to Start Your Day
Fallout from Friday’s $400 million cryptocurrency hack, a big week ahead for tech stocks, and the frenzy for Chinese offshore equities builds. Here are some of the things people in markets are talking about. [more...]
Bloomberg: Asian Stocks Pare Gains; Treasury Yields Climb: Markets Wrap
Asian equities pared earlier gains, with a rise in shares in Australia and South Korea offset by declines in Hong Kong and China. The dollar steadied as Treasury yields climbed to the highest since May 2014. [more...]
Bloomberg: Massive Cryptocurrency Heist Spurs Call for More Regulation
At 2:57 a.m. on Friday morning in Tokyo, someone hacked into the digital wallet of Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck Inc. and pulled off one of the biggest heists in history. [more...]
Bloomberg: Japan’s Central Bank Sees No Need to Mint a Digital Currency
Cash is still king in Japan, and that means that the central bank doesn’t see a need to mint a digital currency for now, according to the head of the FinTech Center at the Bank of Japan. [more...]
Bloomberg: Cryptocurrency Markets Are Juicy Targets for Hackers: Timeline
The $500 million heist of digital tokens from Japanese exchange Coincheck Inc. on Friday is remarkable for its sheer size, but thefts in the lightly regulated world of cryptocurrencies are woefully frequent. [more...]
Bloomberg: Australian Dollar's Surge Is Bringing Out the Bears
The Australian dollar’s longest rally in 18 months is bringing out the bears. The Aussie is poised to go into reverse as the Federal Reserve keeps raising interest rates, while the Reserve Bank of Australia leaves borrowing costs at a record low. [more...]
Bloomberg: A Global Convergence of Economic Conditions Is Driving the Market Melt-Up
There’s a simple way to make sense of the tumbling dollar, the Treasury selloff and the emerging-market boom, all springing in lockstep. Investors are intensifying their bets on synchronized global growth, a dynamic that’s crimping demand for safe assets and fueling convergence trades. [more...]
Reuters: U.S. farmers have much to lose if NAFTA deal collapses
A collapse of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to scrap, could create the most profound disruption for U.S. farmers who produce grains, meats and dairy products sold to Canada and Mexico. [more...]
Reuters: Why Canada is the next frontier for shale oil
The revolution in U.S. shale oil has battered Canada’s energy industry in recent years, ending two decades of rapid expansion and job creation in the nation’s vast oil sands. [more...]
CNBC: The dollar's terrible week is a warning of what could come if Trump's team missteps on trade
U.S. officials created a small firestorm with their dollar comments in the chilly air of Davos this week, but a much more important factor for the future of the currency will be what they say and do about trade when they leave Switzerland. [more...]
CNBC: Chinese flight routes set off military alarms in Taiwan
Following Beijing's increased military drills near the East Asian island, which China considers as part of its own, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen said in a televised broadcast last week that she did not exclude the possibility of a full-blown attack. [more...]
Currency Strength Indicators
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​​​​​​​The currency strength meter gives you a quick visual guide to which currencies are currently strong, and which ones are weak. The meter measures the strength of all forex cross pairs and applies calculations on them to determine the overall strength for each individual currency. For example, if EUR is strong and USD is weak, it could mean that the currency pair EURUSD could be going up. If both currencies are strong or weak it is better to avoid since it will probably means there is no clear direction for the specific pair. To get the latest Currency Strength Indicator please click here

Todays Markets

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Trading Sentiment
Below is the latest sentiment as compiled by etoro, the world's largest (social) trading network. It provides a view of what individual investors think about the specific instruments and gives a view of the current sentiment.
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Latest News Headlines
Bloomberg: Trump Rallies Dollar as Stocks Wobble, Crude Falls: Markets Wrap
President Donald Trump waded into the unusual public debate over currency valuations, roiling markets after he said that he favored a strong greenback just a day after his Treasury secretary endorsed a weak dollar. [more...]
Bloomberg: Gold Is Heading Towards a Four-Year High
Gold could hit levels last seen in 2013 if the dollar extends its slide and equity markets reverse. [more...]
Bloomberg: Ripple Wants XRP to Be Bitcoin for Banks. If Only the Banks Wanted It
Every day, companies and consumers around the world send more than $76 billion in payments through a vast network of banks. [more...]
Bloomberg: Today at Davos: Five Things You Need to Know
After talks with U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May and Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu, the U.S. president is scheduled to meet with the various executives in attendance at Davos. [more...]
Bloomberg: Oil Companies to Reopen Their Checkbooks as Brent Surpasses $70
After more than three years of belt-tightening, a resurgence in crude prices has fueled oil-company optimism, and a readiness to reopen the checkbook. [more...]
Bloomberg: Some ECB Officials Prefer June for Next Policy Shift
As the European Central Bank considers when to start signaling the end of its crisis-era stimulus, some officials prefer delaying any significant change in language until June, according to people familiar with the matter. [more...]
Bloomberg: Biggest Stock Sell Signal Since 2013 Sparked By Record Inflows
Investors added the most money on record to equity funds last week as the earnings season began on a positive note and global stocks continued to post record highs. That’s contributing to the strongest sell signal since 2013, by one gauge. [more...]
Bloomberg: A Doomsayer's Guide to the Dollar and Why It Could Keep Plunging
Regardless of whether the Trump administration wants a strong U.S. currency or not, this week’s plunge is breaching technical barriers that had stood as proverbial last lines of defense against a significant gap lower. [more...]
Reuters: Consumers, businesses seen buoying U.S. economic growth in fourth-quarter
The U.S. economy likely maintained a brisk pace of growth in the fourth quarter, driven by an acceleration in consumer and business spending, which could set it on course to attain the Trump administration’s 3 percent annual growth target this year. [more...]
Reuters: Asia stocks rise for 11th straight session, Trump helps dollar bounce
Asian stocks extended their winning run to the 11th day on Friday, while the battered dollar won back some ground after President Donald Trump said he wanted a strong U.S. currency. [more...]
CNBC: Trump says dollar will get 'stronger and stronger,' Mnuchin was misinterpreted
President Donald Trump told CNBC on Thursday the dollar will strengthen over time under his leadership and that recent remarks made by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin about the greenback were misinterpreted. [more...]
CNBC: Cryptocurrencies not yet in 'dotcom bubble territory,' experts say
Cryptocurrencies are not in "dotcom bubble territory" in terms of market capitalization, a venture capitalist said at the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Thursday. [more...]
Currency Strength Indicators
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​​​​​​​The currency strength meter gives you a quick visual guide to which currencies are currently strong, and which ones are weak. The meter measures the strength of all forex cross pairs and applies calculations on them to determine the overall strength for each individual currency. For example, if EUR is strong and USD is weak, it could mean that the currency pair EURUSD could be going up. If both currencies are strong or weak it is better to avoid since it will probably means there is no clear direction for the specific pair. To get the latest Currency Strength Indicator please click here

Todays Market

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Trading Sentiment
Below is the latest sentiment as compiled by etoro, the world's largest (social) trading network. It provides a view of what individual investors think about the specific instruments and gives a view of the current sentiment.
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Latest News Headlines
Bloomberg: Asia Stocks Pare Losses; U.S. Dollar Extends Slide: Markets Wrap
Asian stocks pared earlier losses despite continuing reverberations in the foreign exchange market after rhetoric from Trump administration officials on trade and the dollar. The U.S. currency extended its decline to a three-year low. [more...]
Bloomberg: History Suggests Mnuchin’s Dollar Rhetoric Could Backfire
When it comes to the dollar, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin may soon come to realize that talk isn’t always cheap. [more...]
Bloomberg: Markets Are About to Get Ugly According to These Charts
Optimism has peaked, according to two widely followed measures of U.S. economic sentiment. If history is any guide, bouts of equity volatility and plunging Treasury yields will soon follow. [more...]
Bloomberg: Trump Team at Davos Backs Weaker Dollar, Sharpens Trade War Talk
President Donald Trump’s top economic advisers set the stage for the rollout of his "America First" manifesto on the world stage. [more...]
Bloomberg: Cheap U.K. Retail Stocks May Be Too Good to Be True
Investors seeking to snap up bargains among slumping U.K. retail stocks had better beware that some discounts may be too good to be true. [more...]
Reuters: Asia shares hit record peak but trade protectionist fears cast shadow
Asian stocks hit a record high on Thursday though concerns about the Trump administration’s protectionist stance tempered enthusiasm in financial markets, while the dollar struggled after U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin welcomed a weaker currency. [more...]
Reuters: U.S. official backs weak dollar amid fears of trade war
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin welcomed a weaker dollar on Wednesday, sending the greenback reeling and underlining concerns that U.S. President Donald Trump is stepping up his attack on China and other big trading partners as part of his America First agenda. [more...]
CNBC: Don't expect a more hawkish ECB just yet, analysts say
The European Central Bank (ECB) is not expected to make any major policy announcements Thursday, despite signaling a growing appetite for revising its policy message in "early" 2018. [more...]
CNBC: Barclays CEO says new US tax policy is a 'very big deal' for his company
The U.S. is setting an example for the world in terms of tax friendliness, Barclays CEO Jes Stanley told CNBC Thursday. [more...]
Currency Strength Indicators
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​​​​​​​The currency strength meter gives you a quick visual guide to which currencies are currently strong, and which ones are weak. The meter measures the strength of all forex cross pairs and applies calculations on them to determine the overall strength for each individual currency. For example, if EUR is strong and USD is weak, it could mean that the currency pair EURUSD could be going up. If both currencies are strong or weak it is better to avoid since it will probably means there is no clear direction for the specific pair. To get the latest Currency Strength Indicator please click here