• First Light News: 22 December 2023

    First Light News: 22 December 2023

    • December 22, 2023

    The FP Markets Research Team produces First Light News during the early hours of the European session, a daily Market Briefing that helps ensure traders and investors are up to date in the macro space for the day ahead. Good morning. A very good morning to all our readers as we wrap up the final

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  • First Light News: 21 December 2023

    First Light News: 21 December 2023

    • December 21, 2023

    The FP Markets Research Team produces First Light News during the early hours of the European session, a daily Market Briefing that helps ensure traders and investors are up to date in the macro space for the day ahead. Good morning. Following UK inflation data (released just ahead of the European cash open) easing on

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  • First Light News: 20 December 2023

    First Light News: 20 December 2023

    • December 20, 2023

    The FP Markets Research Team produces First Light News during the early hours of the European session, a daily Market Briefing that helps ensure traders and investors are up to date in the macro space for the day ahead. Good morning. It was an interesting one yesterday. Asia Pac trading witnessed the Bank of Japan

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  • First Light News: 15 December 2023

    First Light News: 15 December 2023

    • December 15, 2023

    The FP Markets Research Team produces First Light News during the early hours of the European session, a daily Market Briefing that helps ensure traders and investors are up to date in the macro space for the day ahead. Good morning. The Swiss National Bank (SNB), the Bank of England (BoE) and the European Central

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  • First Light News: 14 December 2023

    First Light News: 14 December 2023

    • December 14, 2023

    The FP Markets Research Team produces First Light News during the early hours of the European session, a daily Market Briefing that helps ensure traders and investors are up to date in the macro space for the day ahead. Good morning. Yesterday’s highlight event observed the Fed stand pat on rates for a third successive

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  • First Light News: 13 December 2023

    First Light News: 13 December 2023

    • December 13, 2023

    The FP Markets Research Team produces First Light News during the early hours of the European session, a daily Market Briefing that helps ensure traders and investors are up to date in the macro space for the day ahead. Good morning. It was all about US CPI inflation data on Tuesday, which was largely in

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  • First Light News: 8 December 2023

    First Light News: 8 December 2023

    • December 8, 2023

    The FP Markets Research Team produces First Light News during the early hours of the European session, a daily Market Briefing that helps ensure traders and investors are up to date in the macro space for the day ahead. Good morning. Thursday delivered a somewhat subdued calendar, with the only tier-1 data of note being

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  • First Light News: 7 December 2023

    First Light News: 7 December 2023

    • December 7, 2023

    The FP Markets Research Team produces First Light News during the early hours of the European session, a daily Market Briefing that helps ensure traders and investors are up to date in the macro space for the day ahead. Good morning. Yesterday, we witnessed further evidence of a softening labour market in the US; ADP

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  • First Light News: 6 December 2023

    First Light News: 6 December 2023

    • December 6, 2023

    The FP Markets Research Team produces First Light News during the early hours of the European session, a daily Market Briefing that helps ensure traders and investors are up to date in the macro space for the day ahead. Good morning. US ISM services PMI (for November) and the US JOLTs Job Openings (for October)

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  • First Light News: 5 December 2023

    First Light News: 5 December 2023

    • December 5, 2023

    The FP Markets Research Team produces First Light News during the early hours of the European session, a daily Market Briefing that helps ensure traders and investors are up to date in the macro space for the day ahead. Good morning. Overnight observed the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) kept its Cash Rate Target unchanged

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  • First Light News: 1 December 2023

    First Light News: 1 December 2023

    • December 1, 2023

    The FP Markets Research Team produces First Light News during the early hours of the European session, a daily Market Briefing that helps ensure traders and investors are up to date in the macro space for the day ahead. Good morning. US jobless claims and PCE data came in largely as economists forecasted on Thursday.

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  • First Light News: 30 November 2023

    First Light News: 30 November 2023

    • November 30, 2023

    The FP Markets Research Team produces First Light News during the early hours of the European session, a daily Market Briefing that helps ensure traders and investors are up to date in the macro space for the day ahead. Good morning. Economic activity in the US was revised to the upside in the second estimate

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