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Today's Highlights

• Lay Down The FOMC
• May in Brussels
• Crypto Stability

Traditional Markets

The US session entered euphoria yesterday as American investors seemed to forget all the friction around the world and buy up stocks like they were going out of style.

However, the rampant enthusiasm has not been shared by Asian or European investors this morning. The rally has now been called into question.

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Traders will be looking towards the Fed for guidance today as they release the minutes from their last meeting at 14:00 New York time.

More Brexit

While we await an update from Brussels regarding the Italian budget proposal, on the agenda for today will be Prime Minister Theresa May, who comes to express her proposals for a new exit deal

This evening's dinner will be attended by Emmanuel Macron, Angela Merkel, and Donald Tusk, among others. However, although her speech is the highlight of the evening, apparently May will not be staying for dinner.

We should watch for updates starting from 19:00 Brussels. What people really want to see is some sort of new solution for the Irish border. This does seem to be the only sticking point left but like a Chinese finger trap, the harder politicians pull the further we get from a solution.

Tracking the strength of the Pound Sterling against the US Dollar has been pretty pointless. Due to the global nature of the Buck, the GBPUSD pair usually reflects Dollar strength more than anything. We can, however, get a good picture of the Pound by watching the EURGBP.

As we can see the pair has been in a pretty solid range over the last year and is now near the lows.

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Crypto Stability

Fortunately, Tether has come a long way towards recovering its one-to-one status with the USD and is now trading on major exchanges at a small discount of about 4 or 5 cents on the Dollar.

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