Opinion

By Jeffrey Halley, Senior Market Analyst, Asia Pacific, OANDA, If financial markets were a ballet, it would surely be regarded as one of history's most complex. No Sleeping Beauty's or...

By Vishnu Varathan, Head, Economics & Strategy, Asia & Oceania Treasury Department, Mizuho Bank, Ltd., Why Gold is Not an Unqualified Inflation Hedge "It is a capital mistake to theorize...

By Jeffrey Halley, Senior Market Analyst, Asia Pacific, OANDA, Financial markets finished Friday on a civilised note, after what was a very choppy week. US data saw equity markets move...

By Vishnu Varathan, Head, Economics & Strategy, Asia & Oceania Treasury Department, Mizuho Bank, Ltd., Uneven Worries of Inflation & Infections US FOMC Minutes gave reasons to fret cost-push pressures...

By Jeffrey Halley, Senior Market Analyst, Asia Pacific, OANDA, Inflationary fears continued to abate overnight, with the Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Index retreating from near fifty-year highs to 31.5, much lower...

By Jeffrey Halley, Senior Market Analyst, Asia Pacific, OANDA, Overnight news was dominated by the capitulation liquidation in the cryptocurrency space. Depending on which crypto you were talking about, losses...

By Vishnu Varathan, Head, Economics & Strategy, Asia & Oceania Treasury Department, Mizuho Bank, Ltd., FOMC Minutes: Minority Jolt John Stuart Mill, in his book "On Liberty", presciently alluded to...

By Vishnu Varathan, Head, Economics & Strategy, Asia & Oceania Treasury Department, Mizuho Bank, Ltd., Inflation Mood Swing? Wall St extended and deepened losses with 0.6-0.9% drop in headlines-light brooding...

By Jeffrey Halley, Senior Market Analyst, Asia Pacific, OANDA, The buy everything exuberance that rounded out the week in New York had not translated into Asian markets today. Instead, it...

By Vishnu Varathan, Head, Economics & Strategy, Asia & Oceania Treasury Department, Mizuho Bank, Ltd., US retail sales miss a week after the jobs disappointment helped to buy policy insurance (and buy...