Market Overview

Today's release of the publicly available data from ECRI (Economic Cycle Research Institute) puts its Weekly Leading Index (WLI) at 144.4, up 1.3 from the previous week. Year-over-year the four-week...

This morning's employment report for April showed a 211K increase in total nonfarm payrolls, surprising forecasts. Over the past 3 months, job gains have averaged 174,000. The unemployment rate ticked...

The U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, also known as the FT-900, is published monthly by the Bureau of Economic Analysis with data going back to 1992. The monthly reports include...

Gold has suffered a sharp pullback over the past couple weeks, stoking much bearish sentiment. While a variety of factors fed this selloff, the precipitating catalyst was a gold-futures shorting...

Sancho Panza, Don Quixote’s peasant squire in the classic novel by Cervantes, declared that a wise man should not “venture all his eggs in one basket.” But Warren Buffett famously...

We discuss the day and last week in financial markets covering everything from Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) and bonds to oil and gold in this general market commentary video. Watch for Equities (S&P 500)...

The pace of job creation picked up sharply in April, the Labor Department reports. The solid increase suggests that the weak gain in March, which was revised down, was an anomaly. That’s an...

A butterfly flaps its wings... a hurricane strikes miles away.According to Chaos Theory, a seemingly irrelevant action can precipitate, and contribute to, a major event. The right set of factors comes...

Recent news from the World Economic Forum has outlined recent core global economic functions and relationships. We found this interesting in both factual data and interpreted data and we wanted to...

U.S. stocks managed a mid-afternoon advance to finish the trading session higher as domestic markets grappled with a jobs report that showed growth rebounded but wages were mixed. Treasury yields were...

DOW+ 55 = 21,006SPX + 9 = 2399NAS + 25 = 6100RUT + 8 = 139610-Year – .005 = 2.35%Oil + .89 = 46.41Last week was Jobs Report Friday. The economy added 211,000 net new jobs in April. The...

It was feast or famine in the adjustment of speculative positions in the currency futures market during the CFTC reporting period ending May 2. Speculators either made large adjustments or very small...

It is difficult to talk about a weak US dollar when in recent days it has made new six-week highs against the yen, 14-month highs against the Canadian dollar, four-month highs against the Australian...

During the past trading week, investors clearly displayed a flight out of safe haven assets. Interestingly, that happened even as crude oil fell more than 5 percent on Thursday, an event that should...