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High risk warning: Foreign exchange trading carries a high level of risk that may not be suitable for all investors. Leverage creates additional risk and loss exposure. Before you decide to trade foreign exchange, carefully consider your investment objectives,...

There was some (slim?) hope last week that the US and China would negotiate a way to avoid tariffs when there were reports about a phone call between the two. That call was evidently called off, though there is still hope the call will occur.The US additional tariff...

High risk warning: Foreign exchange trading carries a high level of risk that may not be suitable for all investors. Leverage creates additional risk and loss exposure. Before you decide to trade foreign exchange, carefully consider your investment objectives,...

High risk warning: Foreign exchange trading carries a high level of risk that may not be suitable for all investors. Leverage creates additional risk and loss exposure. Before you decide to trade foreign exchange, carefully consider your investment objectives,...

I find it odd that CAD is under-performing in the early going. USD/CAD is up 70 pips or 0.5% to 1.4360. The loonie is the weakest currency among all the majors. The trigger was Trump talking about reciprocal tariffs along with steel/aluminum tariffs. The...

On Air Force One, the US President told reporters that more tariffs are coming.He said he will announce 25% tariffs on all imports of steel and aluminum on Monday. That's a legitimate threat and something he has the power to do under current investigations/statues...

Reciprocal tariffs will go into effect almost immediatelyTrump says he will announce 25% steel and aluminum tariffs on MondaySteel and aluminum tariffs to apply to all countriesNippon Steel can't have a majority stake in US SteelThere is usually a process for this so...

German Chancellor Scholz -- who isn't long for government -- was asked if the EU is prepared for possible US tariffs and said "yes, we can act in an hour."In reality, they will have a summit or two and make a mess of it.He was asked about tariffs because Trump said...

High risk warning: Foreign exchange trading carries a high level of risk that may not be suitable for all investors. Leverage creates additional risk and loss exposure. Before you decide to trade foreign exchange, carefully consider your investment objectives,...

AI imageDoes Trump want tariffs to raise revenue or does he want foreign countries to lower barriers? His comments and actions indicate he wants it both ways.On Friday, the market was concerned about the latest comments from Trump.“I’ll be announcing that next week —...

China January CPI 0.5% y/y, highest level in five monthsexpected 0.4%, prior 0.1%core was 0.6% y/y, from 0.4% in December the m/m was 0.7% (expected 0.8%, prior 0.0%)PPI -2.3% y/y, deflation continuedexpected -2.1%, prior -2.3%***China's consumer inflation accelerated...

Two weeks ago, I made the case for Chinese equities in the fallout from DeepSeek.Since then, we've seen Goldman Sachs write that breakthroughs in AI development and application "could materially alter" the Chinese stock market trajectory. This week, Deutsche Bank also...

UPCOMING EVENTS:Monday: NYFed Inflation Expectations.Tuesday: US NFIB Small Business Optimism Index, Fed Chair Powell Testimony.Wednesday: US CPI, Fed Chair Powell Testimony, BoC Meeting Minutes.Thursday: Japan PPI, UK GDP, Switzerland CPI, US PPI, US Jobless Claims,...

It was Jobs Friday in North America with both the US and Canada releasing there January employment reports. For the US, the January non farm jobs for the month came in weaker than expected, with non-farm payrolls increasing by 143K compared to the 170K expected....