Market Overview

In this video I go over some of the big gaining sectors of 2016 and how they moved into Stage 2 bull markets during the year. Important lessons can be learned by studying past winning situations to...

Market is pondering for direction. Nifty has moved beyond 8200 but the momentum appears to be missing. Though financials initially reacted negatively to the lower interest rates announced for the...

The mood, certainly on social media and to an extent on trading floors, suggests bearish sentiment in on the rise, even though US equity markets have really only fallen modestly and there really...

European stocks were mostly lower on Monday, tracking a pullback in the price of oil and weak open on Wall Street. The FTSE 100 was the exception to the rule thanks to a sharp drop in the British...

1. Will we finally get inflation?For eight years now global central banks have been working to create inflation via quantitative easing – with little success in the US and outright deflation in...

U.S. key rate hikes increasingly likelyStatistics Canada had a major surprise for us on Friday, confirming that the economy picked up 53,700 jobs in December after a loss of 2,500 positions had been...

THE ADDICTIONThose who’ve had any brush with addiction know an addict will go to any length to support the habit, including stealing, lies and deception. The addict is aided and abetted by...

Monday January 9: Five things the markets are talking aboutLast Friday’s U.S. December employment increased less than expected (+156k vs. +176k), but the markets interpretation in a rebound in...

by Eli WrightAfter two holiday-shortened weeks, marked by new highs for such key indices as the Dow, S&P 500 and NASDAQ we've arrived at the first full trading week of 2017. Volatility may drop as...

Sterling has stolen the US dollar's spotlight. The issue facing market participants was if the rise in hourly earnings reported as part of the pre-weekend release of US December jobs data was...

The FTSE refreshed its record high at the London open, helped along by a cheaper sterling. The FTSE 100 stocks advanced to 7239p, as energy (+0.40%) and mining stocks (+0.77%) led gains at the...

US Core Retail Sales is a high impact tradable release and the only one for the week. With market returning back to normal, I would only take a trade if we get our tradable deviation or at least see...

EUR/CHFToday’s support: - 1.0698 and 1.0676 (main), where correction is possible. Break would give 1.0648, where correction also may be. Then follows 1.0623. Break of the latter would result...

Not the end of Trump rallyMarkets are still very much in wait-and-see mode this morning; waiting on a press conference from Donald Trump this Wednesday, waiting to see if inflation and the...