Three major events dominate the week ahead, but they all revolve around a single question: how much of the recent oil shock will ultimately feed into inflation and alter the policy outlook? Last week’s stronger-than-expected US employment report reinforced the view that Fed can afford to keep its focus squarely on inflation. With labor market…
Categorised: The Stream | Tags: Bernard Wee, GFXC. chair, MASPosted by Colin Lambert. Last updated: June 8, 2026 The Group Head of Markets and Investment at the Monetary Authority of Singapore has been endorsed as the next chair for the Global Foreign Exchange Committee, taking over from Gerardo García, the general director of central banking…
REST and WebSocket access now available for real-time market data streaming, automated strategy execution, account oversight, and AI-assisted trading workflows. Advanced traders no longer operate from a single screen. They run bots, monitor dashboards, feed signal pipelines, query analytics systems, and increasingly explore AI-assisted tools — all simultaneously, all demanding live data, structured account access,…
WTI Crude Oil went into the weekend with what almost appears is a rather calm price around the $88.280 mark. This value was also seen early this past week when the commodity began its trading. However, by Wednesday of this past week WTI Crude Oil was touching the 94.840 realm in futures markets. The price…
Finance Minister Koo Yun-cheol chairs an emergency meeting on reviewing the volatile foreign exchange market at the Korea Federation of Banks in Seoul, Sunday. Courtesy of Ministry of Finance and Economy Top economic and financial policymakers on Sunday pledged to take stern action against market-disruptive activities and speculative trading amid a weakening Korean won. Finance…
NASDAQ 100 The Nasdaq 100 ended up with a very ugly candlestick for the week, most of this would have been the bloodbath on Friday in reaction to those jobs numbers. It’s all about the fear that the Federal Reserve will have to keep interest rates higher for longer. That is a killer for technology…
What has led to a (soft) rebranding at CFDs broker Capital.com? What led to CEO changes INFINOX, and at Scope Markets? Who is behind the launch of tech-for-brokers-and-prop-firms startup Reltrix? What factors caused a $28 million Q1 loss at Far East focused online broker Tiger Brokers? Beyond the aforementioned CEO changes, what executive moves were…
Friday’s dynamically violent trading on the U.S Nasdaq 100 which saw a fall over 4% of value created a cascade of knock-on effects in the global markets including Forex. The GBP/USD did correlate with the broad Forex market. A rush of investors’ money into U.S bonds helped create weakness in many major currencies, this as…
It looks like the still-expanding retail prop trading phenomenon is not for everyone. Or, for every online broker. ATFX, which in early 2025 joined a number of other CFD brokers by launching its own branded prop firm unit called ATFunded selling trader evaluation challenges to retail traders, is apparently shutting down ATFunded. ATFX originally hired…
Financial Times “Daily active users of BeReal, last year’s social media app sensation, are down nearly 50 per cent from their high point, according to data from Business of Apps.” Bloomberg “That’s still well below the 270 million people using Microsoft Teams every month, or the 20 million people using Slack, according to an estimate…