Market Overview

While it may seem stocks have been surging higher since the election a month ago, some areas of the market have stalled out and have retreated. The Fed will meet this week, and with markets at all...

This past week there was a trio of economic reports this past week: International trade, Factory Orders, and Wholesale Trade.I did not think any of them would change model GDP estimates because there...

An accepted myth is that covered call writing and selling cash-secured puts are precisely the same strategy. The reason this statement is generally accepted by many investors, is that they have the...

Many of the pundits around today probably don’t remember when the Fed funds rate was 15%, the Prime Rate was 20% and the 30-Year Treasury would fluctuate from 8% to 15% in one year alone, as it...

Speculators appeared mostly interested in reducing exposure in the run-up to the US jobs data and the Italian referendum. They liquidated gross longs in the currency futures market and covered shorts....

The US dollar is finishing the year on a firm note. It rose to a 10-month high against the yen before the weekend. The euro remains within spitting distance of the bottom of its two-year range near...

Last week we forecasted a correction was underway and that we saw support at S&P 500 2190, where price was at right then. See here. Well, clearly that was indeed the correct assessment for support...

Markets had a bit of an "eye-of-the-storm" feeling Friday as traders continue to digest Thursday's ECB meeting.As we noted Friday, the central bank opted to extend its Quantitative Easing (QE) program...

We expect the Fed to raise the Fed funds target range 25bp to 0.50%-0.75% from the current 0.25%-0.50% at the FOMC meeting next week, in line with both consensus and market pricing.Since everyone...

In order for a society to be sustained social relations have to be reproduced. Yet now neither the middle class nor capital are able to reproduce themselves.This may be the single greatest challenge...

Friday December 9: Five things the markets are talking aboutAn expansive monetary policy buys time for reforms, but too much stimulus creates an unstable financial market. The ECB’s decision to...

It’s been a quiet start to the final trading day of the week, with the absence of any major economic events giving investors the opportunity to mull over the ECB announcement on Thursday and...

The euro has stabilized after extending yesterday's ECB-driven losses. The euro's drop yesterday was the largest since the UK referendum to leave the EU. Ahead of the weekend, there may be some room...

The United States’ trade deficit rose in October due to a decline in exports, a stronger dollar and an increase in domestic demand have limited the amount of exports. Exports slummed almost 2%...