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Market Spotlight: USD Demand Ramps Higher on Bullard Comments

Bullard Ups The Stakes The US Dollar has received further support into the end of the week following hawkish comments from Fed’s Bullard. Following on from Brainard who, earlier in the week, voiced...

Market Spotlight: US Yields Soar On Hawkish Powell Comments

Powell Ignites YieldsFed chairman Jerome Powell lit a fire under US yields yesterday with comments made at the National Associations of Business Economics. Powell warned that the Fed is willing to do...

Market Spotlight: Trading The March FOMC Meeting

All Eyes On The FedThe US Dollar is trading a little softer ahead of the March FOMC decision later today. However, with the Dollar index sitting just off highs, traders are braced for a USD breakout...

Market Spotlight: Dollar Soars As Fed Signals March Hike

Fed Turns Up The HawkUSD bulls were not left disappointed by last night’s FOMC meeting. The Fed satisfied hawkish expectations, noting that “it will soon be appropriate to raise the target range for...

Market Spotlight: Trading Today's FOMC Meeting

Market Looking For March Rate Hike SignalLooking ahead to today’s FOMC meeting, the market is firmly expecting a hawkish delivery from the Fed. While no policy adjustment is expected at this point,...

USD Lower Despite Hawkish Powell Comments

USD Still LifelessThe US Dollar remains largely subdued today despite a broadly hawkish set of comments from Fed chairman Powell yesterday. Powell was testifying at the senate confirmation hearing for...

FOMC Minutes Show Fed In Firmly Hawkish Territory

Fed In Full SwingThe release of the December FOMC minutes last night confirmed that the Fed is well and truly back into hawkish territory now. With the Fed announcing a doubling of monthly tapering at...

Is The Market Too Hawkish Ahead Of The FOMC?

FOMC In FocusHeading into the December, the FOMC meeting later today, expectations are firmly geared towards a hawkish outcome. With US inflation soaring again last month, unemployment hitting fresh...

The Fed may Hike Interest Rates two Times Next Year to Tame Inflation

The US economy continues to expand at a solid pace and it is increasingly difficult for the Fed to dismiss the accompanying price pressures, which in less than a year reached their highest level since...