Market Overview

The FTSE 100 opened upbeat on softer pound and higher demand in energy stocks (+0.47%) in the continuation of a positive session for oil companies in Asia.The WTI deals with solid offers pre-$55. A...

Waiting on the Leader of the Free WorldIt is my opinion that the only things more overrated than the economic plans of the Trump administrations are pancakes but today we get to deal with both. The...

FTSE +14 points at 7267DAX +8 points at 11830 CAC +10 points at 4855 Euro Stoxx 50 +8 points at 3317 Today is finally the day Donald Trump will speak before the Congress for the first time. Markets,...

The talk of a March rate hike by Fed is heating up this week. It's reported that based on Bloomberg's world interest rate probability tool, the markets are pricing over 50% chance for a March hike....

Donald Trump's speech to Congress today will be monitored closely, as a few weeks ago he promised that he would announce 'something phenomenal in terms of tax'. His speech has potential ramifications...

Though we may think of modern economies as being modern and perhaps disassociated with some of the more primitive aspects of the past, there remain to this day seasonal fractures in economy and...

Uncertainty is rising ahead of the French electionGerman yields trade lower and DKK strengthens Higher yields is an H2 17 theme EUR/USD to trade lower near term but still higher longer term To read...

For more than 100 years global debt levels have been rising, and now we are potentially facing the greatest debt crisis in all of human history. Never before have we seen such a level of debt...

There is a misplaced psychology among active investors and many advisors that they must always be doing something with their portfolio. It’s the notion that activity leads to profitability or...

Monday was another day of confused trading as the dollar was hit by soft data and a slowdown on Trump's tax plan but rallied late anyway. The euro was the top performer while the yen lagged. Japanese...

It appears the Federal Reserve took notice of the overheated stock market and realized they really must be behind the inflation curve. You don`t reach year end targets in the stock market already at...

The mercantilist inclination by the Trump Administration makes it seem as if exports are good and create jobs and imports are bad and cost jobs. This is simply not true. This assessment is not based...

In response to the 2007-2009 financial crisis, policy-makers in the U.S. who had absolutely no idea what caused the crisis enacted legislation that would supposedly prevent such a crisis from...

The Canadian dollar was bolstered Friday by inflation data that outstripped economists’ expectations as the introduction of a carbon tax in Alberta and Ontario drove gasoline and natural gas...