Market Overview

by Chaim Siegel of Elazar Advisors, LLCSince the last Fed meeting in March, US CPI as well as jobs growth have slowed. Surprisingly, CPI went negative on the last reading and March nonfarm payrolls...

Just recently, Wealth Management had an interesting interview with Jeremy Grantham in which Jeremy suggests the “rules have changed” for value investors. To wit: The market was extremely...

As widely expected, the ECB left its key rates and asset purchase plan intact. It reiterated its forward guidance that rates will remain at present levels or lower.Draghi was more confident about the...

Here is the opening statement from the Department of Labor: In the week ending April 22, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 257,000, an increase of 14,000 from the previous...

The Advance Report on Manufacturers’ Shipments, Inventories, and Orders released today gives us a first look at the latest durable goods numbers. Here is the Bureau's summary on new orders: New...

Tensions are rising fast between the US and North Korea and are likely to escalate further if North Korea continues with plans to make a nuclear test. The US is embarking on a course of brinkmanship...

The correction continued yesterday for the Canadian dollar, which is the worst performing G10 currency against the U.S. dollar since the start of April! Difficulties with energy prices, tweets from...

The rebound in oil and metal prices has stalled since the beginning of the year. Yet world growth seems to have accelerated. Reasons to explain the pause in the commodity price recovery have to be...

Russia’s macroeconomic situation has consolidated. After a 2-year recession, the Russian economy swung back into growth in fourth-quarter 2016, inflationary pressures dropped sharply allowing...

The withdrawal of 500 and 1000 rupee notes does not seem to have had much of an impact on economic activity or on Narendra Modi’s popularity. His BJP party won a major victory in legislative...

Economic growth has picked up slightly over the past two quarters, supported by the authorities’ stimulus policy measures. In Q1 2017, the growth acceleration was fuelled by a rebound in...

Since 2014 Colombia has been in the frontline of the strong external shock resulting from the collapse of global commodity prices, notably for oil. Its macro fundamentals deteriorated markedly up to...

For more than a year, Mauricio Macri has been pursuing far-reaching economic reforms: the country has returned to international financial markets, numerous taxes have been eliminated, energy prices...

Power sharing between the centre-left Social Democrats, the big winners of the December 2016 legislative elections, and the president from the centre-right National Liberal Party have gotten off to a...