Opinion

By Jeffrey Halley, Senior Market Analyst, Asia Pacific, OANDA, The noise level has risen to eardrum-bursting levels across the financial market space, with currencies, energy and precious metals having volatile...

By Vishnu Varathan, Head, Economics & Strategy, Asia & Oceania Treasury Department, Mizuho Bank, Ltd., Inflation & Infection It is a surreal world in which US markets are fretting inflation...

By Jeffrey Halley, Senior Market Analyst, Asia Pacific, OANDA, Friday's gigantic Non-Farm Payrolls miss, payrolls rose by only 266,000 jobs, is quickly being dismissed as an anomaly. The signs were...

By Vishnu Varathan, Head, Economics & Strategy, Asia & Oceania Treasury Department, Mizuho Bank, Ltd., The US appears to have a job for Goldilocks, so to speak, as disappointing NFP...

By Jeffrey Halley, Senior Market Analyst, Asia Pacific, OANDA, Friday is finally here, and with it the week's data highlight, the US Non-Farm Payrolls. It has been a choppy week...

By Jeffrey Halley, Senior Market Analyst, Asia Pacific, OANDA, US ISM Services and ADP Employment data came in slightly softer than expected overnight, taking the froth of equity markets which...

By Jeffrey Halley, Senior Market Analyst, Asia Pacific, OANDA, Treasury Secretary (and former Federal Reserve Chairperson) Janet Yellen perhaps wished she had used less Extreme words last night. Ms Yellen...

By Jeffrey Halley, Senior Market Analyst, Asia Pacific, OANDA, Although the world loves it when a plan comes together, an opposite reaction occurs when it doesn't. Such was the case...

By Jeffrey Halley, Senior Market Analyst, Asia Pacific, OANDA, The data prints have been coming thick and fast since US GDP last night for Asia, with several notable releases across...

By Jeffrey Halley, Senior Market Analyst, Asia Pacific, OANDA, Investors moved back into the global recovery trade overnight as the Federal Reserve stayed "on message" and was suitably dovish at...