Market Overview

The equity bulls are back on the march and it’s a global theme. Clearly, clients are active in US indices with the Dow and S&P 500 pushing to new highs and the NASDAQ 100 gaining 1.6% and...

Europe’s current account data for April will likely signal ongoing economic growth Will the UK 10-year yield continue to hold above the 1% mark? A bearish pall weighs on the outlook for WTI...

Chinese officials earlier this month broadcast they were ready to buy US Treasury bonds again. After selling an unknown quantity (there are different figures, none of which exactly agree) over the...

As with all other highly manipulated data, the financial media has a blind bias toward the “bullish” story attached to the housing market. Understandable, as the National Association of...

The entire global economy now depends on this stripped-of-information "market" for its stability.Ho-hum, another day, another record high in the S&P 500 (SPX). What is this market telling us? If...

On Friday, we reported separately on the latest residential building permits and housing starts in the government's monthly report, courtesy of the Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and...

Dudley Do-Right for the dollar bullsIn the absence of any meaningful economic data overnight, the market’s focus was on Fed member Dudley who bolstered the case for Fed policy normalisation....

Shrinking the Balance Sheet? The big news last week came from the Fed, which announced two things. One, it hiked the Fed Funds rate another 25 basis points. The target is now 1.00 to 1.25%, and there...

Brexit Talks BeginA year after Britain voted to leave the European Union, the negotiations have finally got underway. The pound is holding above a seven-month low. The extent to which the Brexit talks...

Before everyone gets too animated about the decline in core inflation, with calls for central banks to put the brakes on rate normalization, let’s realize that the main drivers of lower...

The Weekly VC Price Momentum IndicatorETFs, Stocks & Futures Swings ReportTrading Instructions June 16, 201 7Signals are automatically generated by integrating electronicweekly statistics with...

Opinion: The indexes closed mixed Friday on heavy volume due to options expiration. NYSE internals were mixed as the A/D was positive but up/down volumes were negative. NASDAQ internals were negative....

After a batch or economic reports and market events, the recovery of the US economic growth rate may appear soon. The optimism was spurred by the rate decision of the US central bank and the latest...

In connection with the FOMC meeting last week, it was stated that the Fed expects to decrease reinvestments of the principal payments received from securities held in SOMA by gradually increasing caps...