The market response to the terrorist attacks that took place in Paris on Friday evening turned out to have unstable and insignificant effect. The crash of stock indexes was accompanied with strengthening of safe assets. Various inside information regarding the outcome of the ECB's meeting on Decembe...

The market is under the power of "fundamental" elements again. The American employment report has hit the market again, although it looks like new forgery. The Bank of Japan's meeting did not satisfy those who expected the expansion of stimulation programs. China has continued its currency intervent...

Last week was oversaturated with fundamental data, and therefore, active speculators has enough opportunities for making money. In general, the market stays suspended, there are still no clear signals. And again, we will dream about the goals of FRS/ECB, digging in the official reports from the both...

As soon as markets hint at stability or decline, there come the threats of the new process under the name of "quantitative easing". After ECB's discussion of negative interest rate, bankers that consider themselves socially oriented made panicky purchases of shares hoping to enjoy a free lunch. Let'...

Last week, statements made by leaders and financial analysts tried to feel out basic price levels of main assets; however they did not manage to break the general sentiment for dollar strengthening. The interest shifted to the current week - to main fundamental goals: ECB and FRS rates. Last week's ...

The first non-speculative week has been gradually setting goals for the period until the end of the year. In general, the market has come to the conclusion that FRS has added one more problem to its regular two - global risks. Considering distrust to inflation and confirmation of exports decline in ...

The market has waited for the negative regarding US dollar for so long that a weak report on labor market was worked off very actively and shocked investors, who expected rate increase in 2015. At least in October, we shouldn't expect any increase, and December is under great doubts. Such a NFP repo...

Last week was rich in statements and comments. By all appearances, FRS was not happy with the market response to its decision on the rate; therefore, it tried to distract the market again using discussions on rates, which meant "when", "how much", and the main thing - "why". All of that provided sli...

The key moment of fall is over. The market has been hardly surprised that FRS has left rates at the previous level. The Federal Reserve has managed to achieve the impossible - to puzzle investors not with the consequences of rate increase, but rather with some global negative, which, for the first t...

The noise made by ECB has settled down, the election in Greece and talks regarding extension of Euro-QE until 2017 have not been in focus so far. The market is waiting for the event of the year - the decision regarding the American rates. The week was noted with a united opposition of interested par...