Whether a case of the Monday blues, the Dog Days of summer setting in or a combination of both, markets struggled for direction despite upbeat US economic data while quarterly earnings have failed to inspire investors. And we might chalk it up to a typical summer afternoon NY trading session. Event-wise, apart from the Tump/Putin headline which managed to supplant China-US trade headlines, there has been very little news worth to report as the markets hardly budged on the positive US retail sales print and remained in stasis during the Empire survey. And Sterling barely blinked after UK PM May scraped through a ... (full story)