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French poll puts National Rally well short of absolute majorityA Fed official highlighted 'some warning signs the real economy is weakening'...

None of the data from Japan today is likely to impact major FX rates (yen specifically) upon release. Traders will be biding their time, wai...

What's expected:Consensus estimate +190K (Goldman Sachs at the low at +140K, FAO Economics at the high at +250K)May +272K vs +185K expectedP...

I spoke with Andy Bell at BNNBloomberg yesterday in a wide-ranging interview about the state of global markets and what's coming in a cyclic...

I have a hard time imagining the UK election will be much of a market mover, given that the results have been a foregone conclusion since th...

It's a US holiday so I'm taking all the market moves today with a grain of salt but the general theme is US dollar selling, perhaps in a del...

Closing changes:Stoxx 600 +0.6%German DAX +0.4%UK FTSE 100 +0.8%French CAC +0.8%Italy MIB +0.8%Spain IBEX +0.1%I have a longstanding belief...

There is an increasingly-clear picture of a French parliament with a hard split between the left and right, leaving the centrists as the kin...

The main line of thinking on bitcoin is that the recent round of selling pressure is related to the distribution of the 141,000 bitcoin from...

If you're American, the bad news is that US markets are closed today. The good news is that your local furniture retailer is having their 'b...

It's election day in the UK but there is no mystery about what is going to happen. The Conservatives are going down in flames with YouGov’s...

Some members felt that the data available since the last meeting had not increased their confidence that inflation would converge to the 2%...

Headlines:The UK heads to the polls todayWhat has changed after yesterday's US data?Bitcoin drops again, faces mounting technical pressureEC...

It's not much but the dollar is looking a little sluggish, keeping with the drop from yesterday. EUR/USD is trading closer to 1.0800 still,...

FundamentalOverviewThe USD yesterday weakenedacross the board following soft US Jobless Claims and ISM Services PMI reports. Overall, the...

After what looked to be a hold of the $60,000 mark has quickly turned ugly for Bitcoin. The cryptocurrency dipped in trading yesterday and i...

FundamentalOverviewThe USD yesterday weakenedacross the board following soft US Jobless Claims and ISM Services PMI reports. Overall, the...

FundamentalOverviewThe USD yesterday weakenedacross the board following soft USJobless Claims and ISMServices PMI reports. Overall, the...

FundamentalOverviewYesterday, gold broke out of the recent range and extended the rally followingsome weak US data. In fact, the Continuin...

Prior 54.7 This article was written by Justin Low at www.forexlive.com.

After a bit of a stutter following the opening gap higher on Monday, the pair is making up for that now in a push towards 1.0800. The high y...

The early results will only start to trickle in late in the day (or should I say night), so just be wary of that. The pound will stay in foc...

Prior 38.5 This article was written by Justin Low at www.forexlive.com.

Prior +1.4%Core CPI +1.1% y/yPrior +1.2%If the SNB needs a reason to pause on rate cuts, they certainly can point to this. At the same time,...

Prior -0.2%; revised to -0.6%That's not a pretty number with a softer revision in April to boot. If you strip out large orders, incoming ord...