Market Overview

The tones in the financial markets remain unchanged for the week. US equities attempted for a rally overnight. DJIA surged initially on strong US ADP employment and reached as high as 20887.50. But...

FTSE -60 points at 7271DAX -62 points at 12155 CAC -26 points at 5065 Euro Stoxx -17 points at 3455 The Federal Reserve (Fed) minutes revealed the FOMC members’ will to start shrinking the $4.47...

Market Movers today The ECB minutes from the March meeting will be scrutinised for any hints and discussions within the Governing Council of the ECB contemplating hiking rates before a termination of...

Another grand centre-left-right coalition between CDU/CSU and SPD currently still seems to be the most likely outcome after the election, although centrist coalitions of Greens, FDP and either SPD or...

In terms of the economic development there was not much new in the FOMC minutes, as the FOMC members have already been quite outspoken since the meeting.However, as Yellen said at the press conference...

The word of the day is transitory. That’s my take on the release of the March 14-15 FOMC Minutes.The information reviewed for the March 14-15 meeting suggested that the labor market strengthened...

by Chaim Siegel of Elazar Advisors, LLCThis Friday we'll get the all-important Nonfarm Payrolls report (NFP). ADP came out yesterday with a barn-burner upside surprise of 263K versus consensus of...

March factory orders in Germany on track to revive after February’s sharp setback Will the Eurozone Retail PMI confirm the hard-data rebound in consumer spending? US jobless claims set to dip...

The Institute of Supply Management (ISM) has now released the March Non-Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI), also known as the ISM Services PMI. The headline Composite Index is at 55.2...

In the past two issues of Seasonal Insights I have shown that many individual stocks display unique seasonal patterns.There is a variety of reasons for this phenomenon. Often internal procedures are...

Japan's Ministry of Finance reports portfolio flows on a weekly basis with a week lag. The data just reported covers the last week in March, as the Japanese fiscal year was drawing to a close.Japanese...

The FOMC minutes were clear that officials are contemplating beginning to address the balance sheet, which is another sign of confidence in the normalization process. However, beyond that, very little...

SPX Monitoring purposes; Long SPX on 3/24/17 at 2343.98. Monitoring purposes Gold: Sold GDX at 24.33 on 2/22/07 = gain 20.15%; Long GDX on 12/28/16 at 20.25. Long-term Trend monitor purposes:...

This time is different. Stocks will always go up. And pigs can fly. Given that pigs are highly intelligent, don’t bet against them. That said, investors might want to take at least the first two...