Market Overview

Risk appetite remained limited in Asia. Nikkei (-0.69%) and Topix (-0.62%) traded lower, although the yen weakened the most against the US dollar out of the G10 currencies.Price volatility is back and...

Every month the New York Fed releases a Survey of Consumer Expectations.One of the components pertains to spending expectations, how much more or less people think they will spend in the future. Since...

Despite limited moves in Asia Market yesterday, one could cut the tension on APAC trading desks with a knife as dealers were busy rethinking strategies within this complex Central calculus.As...

Global stocks descended deeper into the abyss on Tuesday following the sharp selloff in oil prices which weighed heavily on risk sentiment.Asian shares commenced Wednesday on a shaky footing with most...

Dow Jones: Resistance (daily close) : 16931.22, 17111.30, 17268.53 and 17640.00. Breaking of the latter would give 17971.78, 18230.63, 18358.32, 18626.38 and18732.20 (published on January 06,...

Broad-based selling across financial markets, with US and European fixed income markets leading the way. The iShares MSCI Emerging Markets (emerging market ETF) -2.5%, while the iShares iBoxx $ High...

GDP growth has slowed markedly to just around 1% q/q AR over the past three quarters - annual GDP growth declined from 3.3% y/y in Q1 15 to 1.2% y/y in Q2 16.Unemployment and underemployment rates...

The UK’s labour market report for August - what signs of post-Brexit stress? Eurozone industrial activity is on track to slide in today’s update for July Rumours that the Bank of Japan is...

Numbers like gross domestic product (GDP) and the unemployment rate no longer provide insight into how our economy works.As the status quo narratives and metrics lose their explanatory value,...

When will the mainstream financial media do their job and start calling Fed officials out for switching from the Core Inflation metric to justify a continuance of ZIRP? The actual Inflation Rate is...

There is validity in (not “to”) the myth of central banking, one that has important and very serious implications right down the smallest and most immediate terms. The first task of every...

The volatility on every trader’s lips continued overnight, with stocks rejecting off the bottom of this technical range after retesting previous support as resistance.S&P 500 4 Hourly: In...

The following chart shows that on a monthly closing basis, bank reserves held at the Fed peaked in August of 2014 at $2.79T and by August-2016 had shrunk to $2.35T. This amounts to a $440B decline in...

Our Buy Zone analysis is on track. The next signpost we are waiting for is a price break of the recent common cycle lows. When that occurs, I expect selling pressure to intensify, and prices should...