Author: Boris Schlossberg

It’s a big week for the US Fed this week, as it meets to push through its first increase in interest rates since the pandemic, against an increasingly volatile situation in Ukraine. Last week, the markets witnessed parabolic moves for both oil and gold as risk-off...

It was another crazy week on the financial markets, fundamentally driven by the worsening nature of the current Russia-Ukraine conflict. As markets open today, it’s fair to say that sentiment hinges on the ever-evolving headlines of the crisis and traders’ appetite...

As we head into a new month, Boris Schlossberg of BKForex takes over the reins for our Trade Zone Trading Week Ahead for the month of March. Amidst an increasingly volatile background driven by geopolitical tensions, Boris gives his take on the assets that matter this week,...

The Weekly Wrap The rout in risk continued last week with crypto crashing, the Nasdaq nosediving and even gold and oil falling to hold most of their early week gains. It was the most volatile assets that suffered the worst, however. Bitcoin slid to 35,000 while ETH broke the...

The Weekly Wrap It was a tough week for risk assets with Nasdaq, crypto, and high beta currencies all falling, as the double whammy of hotter than expected US inflation data and much weaker than forecast Retail Sales suggested that Omicron is taking a toll on economic activity...

The Weekly Wrap The start of the year saw a slowdown in headline US economic data with both ISM surveys coming in weaker than forecast while the key US Non Farm Payroll number printed at just 199K new jobs versus consensus estimate of 426K. The underlying dynamics remained...