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Commodity dollars in focus but overall only handful of market-moving data with China being out the whole week in observance of the spring festival.

Friday’s jobs and wages numbers may turn out to be not so significant in terms of their potential market impact as investors will still be assessing the Fed’s apparent U-turn in its monetary policy stance – unless the data turn out to be significantly strong or significantly weak.

With seemingly every member of the Federal Reserve emphasizing that the central bank would be “patient” following its December interest rate hike, it came as no surprise that the Fed left interest rates unchanged today. And, despite the speculation that Chairman Powell and Company could revisit their balance sheet rundown strategy, the central bank ...

The FX markets have been rather quiet so far this week. However there have been a couple of exceptions.

Given that the Fed has already indicated that interest rates won’t be going up again soon, investors will be keen to find out first and foremost how long is the central bank likely to remain on hold. Another focal area for investors will be comments from Mr Powell on the pace of the Fed’s balance sheet reduction.

There are several potentially high-impact macro events and data to look forward to next week. Most of the macro pointers are from the Eurozone and the US, but there are also some from other regions, too.

The minutes from each Federal Reserve meeting are released three weeks after the meeting itself, meaning that they’re generally stale under the best of circumstances...

We are in the first full week of the New Year, and if volatility in the third quarter of 2018 is anything to go by, then the start of 2019 should be super exciting indeed.

Heading into arguably the last major market event of 2018, traders felt they had a decent grasp on what the Federal Reserve would do.

The safe-haven asset has been supported by (1) continued weakness in the dollar and (2) raised volatility in the stock markets, ahead of the Federal Reserve’s much-anticipated rate decision later on

With the US stock markets on course to record their worst performance for a December since 1931 during the Great Depression, some investors are undoubtedly feeling cautiously optimistic that the Federal Reserve will prevent that by delivering a dovish rate rise or ideally no hike at all today and that this will trigger a rally in equities.

As he is wont to do on many topics, President Trump has waded into monetary policy discussion ahead of tomorrow’s Fed meeting. Just yesterday, he tweeted, “I hope the people over at the Fed will read today’s Wall Street Journal Editorial before they make yet another mistake. Also, don’t let the market become any more illiquid than it already is. Sto...