Market Overview

We've updated our monthly workforce analysis to include last week's Employment Report for May. The unemployment rate ticked down from 4.4% to 4.3%, and the number of new nonfarm jobs (a relatively...

Have you ever wondered why stocks just seem to keep going up no matter what happens?| For years, financial markets have been behaving in ways that seem to defy any rational explanation, but once you...

Looking at the Thursday session, it’s hard not to imagine that the UK general elections will dominate the headlines. We also get the ECB Interest Rate decision coming out, and while it is not...

On the whole, the market remains incredibly and annoyingly stuck. One sector which has mercifully been on the move, and which has been my focus most of the year, is energy. The cool thing about crude...

Brazilian InflationFor May, the Estimize community is expecting an inflation rate of 3.76%, which is lower than last month’s actual inflation rate of 4.08%. Estimize has been consistently more...

The unusually smooth bailout of a big Spanish bank and upwardly revised OECD global growth forecasts helped create an aura of stability in markets. The stability was perhaps inevitable on the eve of...

Fed funds futures are pricing in a near certainty of a rate hike at next week’s FOMC meeting, although you wouldn’t know it by looking at the 10-year Treasury yield, which has been sinking...

Three Factors Suggest Risk Remains HighOpinion: All but one of the indexes closed lower yesterday with negative internals on both the NYSE and NASDAQ as volumes rose from the prior session. No support...

The dollar is hovering around seven-month lows. Oil remains volatile and equities are mostly flat.CommoditiesOilCrude oil is stuck at $47.85 after several Arab states cut diplomatic ties with Qatar,...

We have revised our forecast significantly higher and expect Finnish GDP to grow 2.8% in 2017 and slow down to 1.5% in 2018. Finnish GDP is still well below its previous peak and the economy is...

We’re seeing mild gains in the FTSE in what is otherwise a mixed European session this morning. US futures are pointing a little higher ahead of the open, with little direction coming from...

by Pinchas CohenGlobal AffairsTrading has mostly stayed within a holding pattern, ahead of tomorrow’s three potentially market moving, monumental events – former FBI Director James...

A great capitulation is underway in the equity market. And we've seen this type of thing happen only once before.The chart in this article came from a discussion about broader signs of upside...

Brazil is struggling with corruption, particularly among the ranks of the elites, according to the Financial Times.Just a year after Brazil’s Congress impeached former President Dilma Rousseff,...