Market Overview

Recognizing strengths and weaknesses among primary asset classes is the core goal of our Tactical Trend strategy. The strategy seeks to identify relative strength and trend strength in an attempt to...

Eurozone business sentiment on track to reach a six-year high in March Economists say Germany’s consumer price index will edge lower this month Any upside surprise in German CPI would drive...

I for one can’t wait for a quadrillion. Nothing could so far both implicate economists as well as demonstrate the folly of following them like the potential for the Bank of Japan’s balance...

To-morrow every Fault is to be amended; but that To-morrow never comes.” – Benjamin Franklin (ed.), Poor Richard’s Almanack Yes, the market did indeed turn in its first 1% down day...

Yesterday mainly saw the dollar moving higher. I had expected for it to complete that move but it ran right through to this morning. I suspect that by European open we’ll have seen the dollar...

There hasn’t been a major overhaul of the tax code in three decades. More notably, Reagan’s signature achievement required four years of deal making between the executive and legislative...

Less than a year after her country voted to leave the European Union, U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May officially put in motion the separation procedure that should wrap up in the spring of 2019....

Dow snaps eight session losing streak U.S. stock indices closed higher supported by better than expected economic data. The dollar strengthened helped also by Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Stanley...

EUR/USD cannot hold the optimism from Monday and closes the gap falling below the 1.0840 support. We are about to test the neck line and the mid-term up trendline. As long as we stay above those two,...

Unanimity SyndromeIf there is one thing apparently no one believes to be possible, it is a resurgence of consumer price inflation. Actually, we are not expecting it to happen either. If one compares...

Earlier today, I had the opportunity to discuss the outlook for sterling and the US dollar on Bloomberg TV with Rishaad Salamat and Haidi Lun. It is a momentous day with Article 50 of the Lisbon...

Last week the US dollar continued falling. Stock prices also showed negative dynamics. However, no significant economic data were released from Monday to Thursday. The main negative factor for the US...

U.S. traders came in and pressed the ‘risk on’ button, helped by a cracker of a consumer confidence print, with the index reaching levels of confidence last seen in December 2000....

According to the INSEE preliminary estimate, the French fiscal deficit reached 3.4% of GDP in 2016, i.e. 0.1 point higher than the government’s target of 3.3% and 0.2 point lower than the 2015...