The Week Ahead – Focusing on the Bond Market for Direction by Joe Rios
Natural Gas 4.1% and Wheat 2.1% were last week's outperformers while Crude Oil -2.2% closed the week as the underperformer. It was an exciting week in the currency market…
RiosQuant Research & Analysis – The bullish risk on sentiment that stoked more Wall Street records on Friday carried through into the new week…
Natural Gas 4.1% and Wheat 2.1% were last week's outperformers while Crude Oil -2.2% closed the week as the underperformer. It was an exciting week in the currency market…
The out performers during last week's trading sessions included Natural Gas, Soybeans And Corn. The under performers were led by Silver, Gold, Wheat, and the commodity currencies such as…
Currencies were in the spotlight this past week with the USD/JPY exchange rate piercing through the key psychological 100 level. Surprisingly the Japanese yen -2.27% was not the…
Last week was very busy with economic data including FOMC meeting, ECB meeting, and the usually powerful payrolls report from the US. The risk assets outperformed with…
The out performers this week in the commodity markets was led by natural gas rising 4.9%, gold 1.9% and silver 1.9%. US thirty year bonds led the risk-off category gaining…
On the last day of trade this week, Corn plunged sparking a slump in Soybeans and Wheat, after the U.S. government said domestic inventories were bigger than analysts forecast and…
The tiny island of Cyprus dominated the headlines this past week. As the markets opened for first day of trade, risk assets gapped sharply only to retrace its losses towards…
Price action in the financial markets this past week left many active traders with bruised egos as the markets were mostly range bound and choppy. The RQ-DMS, our dynamic market…
What's going on? What are the markets telling us? What's next? Friday's February non-farm payroll report surprised the markets to the upside. The unemployment rate dropped to 7.7% from 7.9% in…
Efforts to avoid US government spending cuts were aborted on Thursday, as both bills put forward by opposing parties failed to pass the Senate. The US equity markets sold-off on Monday…