Market Overview

On Friday, US indices followed a mixed course, mostly in the green area, with slight moves because of the increased geopolitical tension by North Korea. Due to analysts, markets gained resistance to...

As early polling results on Sunday show that, although Chancellor Angela Merkel has been elected for a fourth term, her party has lost ground to the far right, and a coalition government will need to...

Lucian Bebchuk, a professor at Harvard Law, has been at the heart of scholarly arguments over corporate governance for a long time, perhaps since 1990, the year he edited a textbook on Corporate Law...

(from my colleague Dr. Win Thin)EM FX was mostly firmer on Friday, but capped off a week of broad-based losses. US rates gave back some of post-FOMC rise, and that weighed on the dollar. Not much in...

Janet Yellen has quipped that the Fed’s balance-sheet reduction program, which will start at $10B/month in October-2017 and steadily ramp up to $50B/month over the ensuing 12 months, will be as...

This video looks at the reasons for bull markets to often end in parabolic blow-offs, and reveals how the sentiment data can be used to identify these conditions in advance.Below you find the video

by Pinchas CohenThe Week That WasFed: Predictable, Unpredictable The most highly anticipated event of the month, the Fed policy meeting this past Wednesday, played out as expected. However, it ushers...

The Dow Jones made seven new BEV Zeros (new all-time highs) in the past two weeks; it can’t make a decent correction if it continues doing that. And that’s one thing this market needs to...

Weekly Technical Analysis September 25th to 29th, 2017EUR/USD: The FOMC hold benchmark interest rate at 1.00-1.25% last Wednesday, as expected. The FED forecast still signals another 2017 hike and...

More than 4,400 ETFs are currently available globally, and more than one million indices are calculated daily—“a dizzying range of asset classes, strategies and exposures.” In Beyond...

Adventures in depravity are nearly always confronted with the unpleasant reality that stopping the degeneracy is much more difficult than starting it. This realization, and the unsettling feeling that...

The down trend in global trade since the financial crisis reached a bottom in mid-2016, but a recovery in 2017 is now firmly underway. Global trade growth averaged 1.4% in 2016 then rose to 4.1% year...

Stocks (SPX):Cycle Status/Outlook: S&P 500 is in a Wave 5 topping pattern out of the 2009 low (note that the 2016 low was a Wave 4 low and we are now in Wave 5). I am looking for a Intermediate...

from my colleague Dr. Win Thin ·S&P cut China's credit rating by a notch to A+ with stable outlook ·In a follow-up move, S&P also cut Hong Kong’s rating by a notch to AA+...