The resumption of risk appetite at the end of last week has failed to spill over into early morning Asian trade with mixed sentiment caused by softer Chinese retail sales and industrial production figures. Partially offsetting this increase in annual...

Given the global focus on inflation at the moment amid soaring commodity and food prices, which have spurred global reflation trade in recent months and a rise in US Treasury yields, investors paid added focus to the latest inflation reading out of T...

Last week's non-farm payrolls jobs report was poor, missing expectations by miles. In the commodity space, copper is printing new highs almost daily at the moment. Base metals in general remain supported given the thoughts of a recovery in global eco...

Some profit taking on global stock markets as well as the broader need for a market correction to clear out stale short USD positions has been enough to drive a rally in the USD. Markit said that sentiment regarding the year ahead remained upbeat, wi...

The USD surged on Friday and will have caught many short-sellers by surprise. Supply concerns and speculative bids have driven the metal to new highs and the trend remains very much topside focused. Money supply growth decelerated for the second succ...

The Ethiopian government is in the process of privatising part of its telecommunications industry, by selling two licenses and a 40% stake in state-owned monopoly operator Ethio Telecom, which has a client base of c49mn subscribers. However, the proc...