Market Overview

Note: In response to a standing request, here is updated comparison of four major secular bear markets. The numbers are through the Friday, October 21 close.This chart series features an overlay of...

The Philly Fed's Aruoba-Diebold-Scotti Business Conditions Index (hereafter the ADS index) is a fascinating but relatively little known real-time indicator of business conditions for the U.S. economy,...

European banks may not be the main driver of the investment climate, but their challenges are not resolved. Investors have focused on two country's banks recently. Germany's Deutsche Bank (DE:DBKGn)...

The Consumer Price Index increased 0.3 percent last month. What does it imply for the gold market?U.S. consumer prices climbed 0.3 percent in September. It was the largest rise since April, as one can...

US equity markets are expected to open a little lower on Friday, building on small losses on Thursday with indices still looking vulnerable to sharp declines even as earnings continue to surpass...

The euro declined as the European Central Bank (ECB) refrained from commenting on the future of the Quantitative Easing (QE) programme, due to end on March 2017, leading investors to think that the...

Thursday afternoon I had the privilege of being on Bloomberg TV, with anchors Scarlet Fu and Matt Miller. I was joined by an old market friend Bob Sinche.We had a lively discussion (what did you...

Following up on some points in last weeks note, gold has led pivots in equities for approximately four weeks, which points to a sharp decline in stocks headed into November. To show the relative...

GBP/CHFToday’s support: - 1.2127, 1.2099, 1.2073 and 1.2060(main), where correction is possible. Break would give 1.2049, where correction also may be. Then follows 1.2021. Break of the latter...

With less than three weeks to go before Election Day on 8 November, the third and last TV debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump was held in the early hours of Thursday. The debate was...

Today, we have a thin calendar in terms of global data releases.In the euro area today, the ECB is set to publish the Survey of Professional Forecasts, containing longer-term inflation...

Riksbank and the Debt Office possibly at the crossroads. To read the entire report Please click on the pdf File Below

Home resales rebounded in September according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR) from an admittedly lackluster summer. Outside of that narrow view of just the past three months, resales,...

Global economic growth is boringly slow, but it is still growth. Pessimists point out that the last few years have been the slowest economic recovery in seven decades, and that the average household...