Market Overview

We've updated this series to include Friday's release of the Consumer Price Index as the deflator and the April monthly employment update. The latest hypothetical real (inflation-adjusted) annual...

Yesterday 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 Urban...

Summary: A tailwind for the rally since February 2016 has been the bearish positioning of investors, with fund managers persistently shunning equities in exchange for holding cash.Fund managers have...

The US dollar has started to break down. As suggested by this article by our research team back in April, gold and dollar are close to bullish or bearish trends, when the dollar and the gold price...

While the markets aggressive risk-off reverberation may well be exaggerated, the fact is dealers never actually believed the Trump impeachment chatter until yesterday when the Comey notes came to...

The pace of global economic growth is picking up after several years of weak performance. First-quarter results indicated a widespread advance at a modest pace and leading indicators for the first...

SPX Monitoring purposes; Sold SPX 5/5/17 at 2399.29 = gain 1.06%; Long SPX on 4/24/17 & 2374.15. Monitoring purposes Gold: Neutral Long-term Trend monitor purposes: Neutral. This week is option...

It’s been an uneventful week for the CAC, which has inched lower in the Wednesday session. Currently, the CAC is trading at 5370.80, down 0.65 percent. On the release front, the spotlight...

The U.S. dollar saw another day of losses yesterday, giving up 27 points (0.2%) against the Canadian dollar and 108 points (0.98%) against the euro as markets are concerned with the lack of discretion...

Globally, production should become less energy and carbon intensive in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and eradicate energy poverty worldwide. According to the EU Reference Scenario, the...

CurrenciesEUR/USD – The pair was trading above $1.1120 in early morning trading, breaking into a new six-month high after investors have fled from bullish dollar trades. This comes after...

The search for a silver bullet in business-cycle analysis is hardy perennial. But it’s a search that’s almost certainly destined for failure.No single indicator is infallible in the quest...

by Pinchas CohenIn what can only be considered a supreme irony, the escalating and increasingly chaotic White House drama that's taking on Shakespearean proportions continues to be the focus of global...

A feeling of unease gripped the financial markets on Wednesday with investors shrinking away from riskier assets after political turmoil enveloped Donald Trump’s administration. Asian shares...