Market Overview

A highly active end to summer!Crude oil saw another rough day yesterday further to the release of U.S. petroleum product inventories, which showed a larger-than-expected increase in distillate...

Wednesday was not a good day for the US equity markets as there was a lot of indigestion again due to central bankers and expectations about what they will and won't do.Given the inability of...

Earlier this week, the National Federation of Independent Businesses released their monthly Small Business Survey. While this data is much overlooked by the mainstream media, it really shouldn’t...

In this report, we make a detailed assessment of Swedish covered bonds amid rising concerns about the Swedish housing market. It is important to fully understand what has pushed house prices higher...

The sell-off in oil is weighing on the FTSE stocks. A barrel of WTI broke below $44.00 and the market remains on the sell side of the game, given the looming uncertainties vis-à-vis the...

Looking at the diary, today is the most important day of the week. The Bank of England and the Swiss National Bank meet. The UK reports retail sales. EMU reports CPI figures. The US reports retail...

US jobless claims in the US may rise in September but remain near a 43-year low US retail sales in August should remain flat for the second straight month Industrial output poised to fall in August...

USD/ZAR Today’s support: - 14.3100, 14.2760, 14.2650 and 14.2200 (main), where correction is possible. Break would give 14.1975, where correction also may be.Then follows 14.1760. Break of the...

Bed Bath & Beyond Inc (NASDAQ:BBBY):This stock has been facing sharply downwards since last Thursday, and there is no reason to expect this to change any time soon, since we are dealing with a...

Market BriefIt was a quiet session in the FX market as investors impatiently await the upcoming BoJ and Fed meeting. The single currency was little changed against the dollar and traded range-bound...

Plenty of key economic data is due out from the US today with retail sales, industrial production, Empire Manufacturing PMI and the Philly Manufacturing PMI.The Bank of England meeting - we do not...

In many ways it is surprising the bond selloff hasn’t been bigger. After all, the recovery narrative of the unemployment rate has had almost everything going for it since February, at least in...

Liz McCormick (NYSE:MKC)'s reporting via Bloomberg gives readers an update on the coming rule changes for money markets. We recommend it to interested readers.Two additions may be helpful. First is...

This is what professionals call a WTH market (the "H" stands for heck).Markets undergoing vast changes in their technical outlook on a minute to minute basis are best described as WTH markets. I have...