Europe

In a shot across the trade war bow with both Japan and Germany, on Tuesday Trump and members of his administration took aim at both Japan and Germany, in addition to China, to accuse them of devaluing their respective currencies, an unexpected move which sent the dollar sliding to multi-month lows.  Specifically, on Tuesday morning Trump said: "You look at what China’s doing, you look at what Japan has done over the years.

European stocks rise the first day in four, with Asian stocks, S&P futures and the Dollar all gaining following strong Apple earnings ahead of today's Fed decision and the U.K. parliament's first vote on the Article 50 bill.

After a turbulent week for the French Presidential front-runners, the latest polls show far-right and anti-EU candidate Marine Le Pen gaining traction.

Le Pen has the younger vote...

And as Bloomberg points out, markets are starting to take notice.

The last 4 months have seen something 'odd' happen in Europe's periphery. Sovereign 'risk' has conspicuously (and rationally) risen as macro-fundamentals have deteriorated - something that we have not seen since Draghi's 2012 "whatever it takes" moment.

For the first time since June 2015, Italian youth unemployment has risen above 40% and notably, Italian bond yields are rising...

Western media reports on the conflict in Syria are very misleading, according to Belgian priest Father Daniël Maes, who is causing controversy in Europe by claiming that the U.S.