Weak U.S. Job Growth Continued But Unemployment Rate Unexpectedly Slipped Back to 4.4% January 9, 2026 In a week full of data releases, the most eagerly awaited report from the get-go had been today’s U.S. December employment situation report from the Labor Department, which presented mixed results relative to market expectations but an overall soft…
Investors Being Cautious Amid Elevated Economic and Geopolitical Uncertainty January 8, 2026 Yesterday’s declines in equity prices have been extended. U.S. stock futures are around 0.5% lower prior to the release of U.S. statistics today of jobless insurance claims, the trade balance, consumer price expectations and labor productivity, as well as tomorrow’s most eagerly awaited…
Watching the Situation in Venezuela and Awaiting Some Key Data Due Soon January 7, 2026 The Trump Administration continues to unfold sweeping changes in policies toward other countries in the Western Hemisphere. Precise details remain sketchy, but the roll-out of assertions has been very bold, with implications stretching well beyond Latin America and Canada to…
Tuesday Attention on Economic Matters, Not Geopolitics January 6, 2026 Investors seem to be paying greater attention to economic news such as inflation data, AI news, and comments from central bankers than to the U.S.-powered upheaval in geopolitical norms that has greeted the new year. Yesterday’s U.S. stock market rally carried into Asian trading where…
A Third Israeli Interest Rate Cut January 5, 2026 At the Bank of Israel’s first scheduled review of interest rate policy this year. In light of a 25-basis point cut at the prior review in late November, analysts were not anticipating an interest rate change, but it was instead cut by a further 25 basis…
Financial Markets React to Madura’s Capture January 5, 2026 (158) President Trump’s efforts to replace Madura was pitched originally as a solution to the U.S. Fentanyl problem, but the deeper motive of this still unfolding narrative is a gambit to drive up Venezuelan oil production, cheapen the price of fossil fuel energy and drive faster…
Listen to the audio episode: The Mindset Shift That Finally Makes Traders Consistent In episode 541 of the Desire To Trade Podcast, you will be listening to an interview with psychologist, Dr. David Bonanno, to unpack what’s really happening in a trader’s brain when emotions take over—and why trying harder is often the worst move. This…
Most traders fail for one simple reason. They never develop a trading edge. Without a trading edge, every trade becomes a guess. With a trading edge, decisions follow logic and probability. This difference matters even more in forex and metals, where volatility punishes mistakes quickly. A trading edge does not mean perfection. It means having…
Yearend Seasonality of EUR/USD January 1, 2026 The most widely followed bilateral relationship in the first quarter century of the era of flexible dollar exchange rates was that against Germany’s Deutsche mark. After 1998 the euro assumed the role of dollar performance bellwether when eleven European countries adopted the euro. The number of economies using…
December 2025 and Full 2025 in Figures January 1, 2026 Gold and silver prices soared in 2025, as the dollar experienced its weakest performance in almost a decade. Despite central bank interest rate cuts in Europe and North America, long-term interest rates advanced somewhat. Bitcoin swung all over the place but fell only around 6%…