Opinion

By Vishnu Varathan, Head, Economics & Strategy, Asia & Oceania Treasury Department, Mizuho Bank, Ltd., Between Transitions & Tantrums (Fairly) Quiet markets have been correlated to FOMC deference; which is...

By Jeffrey Halley, Senior Market Analyst, Asia Pacific, OANDA, With a mid-week FOMC and holidays in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Australia and Macau, Asia appears content to gently mimic the...

By Vishnu Varathan, Head, Economics & Strategy, Asia & Oceania Treasury Department, Mizuho Bank, Ltd., Week-in-brief: Of Headlights & Headlines As headlines go, the FOMC will be center-stage; with very few contenders...

By Jeffrey Halley, Senior Market Analyst, Asia Pacific, OANDA, Last night's US Consumer Price Inflation data continued highlighting that inflation is alive and well. Looking at the MoM data, my...

By Vishnu Varathan, Head, Economics & Strategy, Asia & Oceania Treasury Department, Mizuho Bank, Ltd., De-Coupling US inflation and the ECB meeting might have played on different stages, but the overriding...

By Jeffrey Halley, Senior Market Analyst, Asia Pacific, OANDA, There's a sense of every man for himself ahead of the US inflation data this evening, a data point that has...

By Jeffrey Halley, Senior Market Analyst, Asia Pacific, OANDA, Hurry up and wait best sums up the overnight session as the street treads water while remaining laser-focused on tomorrow night's...

By Vishnu Varathan, Head, Economics & Strategy, Asia & Oceania Treasury Department, Mizuho Bank, Ltd., US-China Distortions For markets nervously watching for surges in inflation/wage, and wary of the ECB's innate (Northern) proclivity...

By Jeffrey Halley, Senior Market Analyst, Asia Pacific, OANDA, With the use of the remaining 2020 carry-over leave week off complete, it appears that in my absence, the more things...

By Vishnu Varathan, Head, Economics & Strategy, Asia & Oceania Treasury Department, Mizuho Bank, Ltd., Uninspired ... Lackluster markets mostly as Nasdaq's gains were offset by losses on S&P500 and...