Market Overview

On November 4, 2010, then-Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke wrote his infamous oped for the Washington Post “welcoming” the world to a second round of quantitative easing. The very...

Gfk’s Consumer Climate Index for Germany on track to hold steady Softer growth rate for US consumer spending expected in May Mild pullback in the US Pending Home Sales Index projected for...

Nomination for the UK Conservative party leadership opens tomorrow. George Osborne said that he is not a candidate in the Conservative leadership election as he is ' not the person to provide the...

Last week, Great Britain voted to leave the European Union. Markets across the world panicked.But if you think this is as bad as it will get... buddy, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet! Bad as...

The latest report from Eurekahedge, in its tracking of the health of the hedge fund industry worldwide and month by month, indicates that hedge funds were up 0.40% in May. Reversals in commodity...

With today's release of the April S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price we learned that seasonally adjusted home prices for the benchmark 20-city index were up month over month at 0.5%. The seasonally...

The chart below is a way to visualize real GDP change since 2007. It uses a stacked column chart to segment the four major components of GDP with a dashed line overlay to show the sum of the four,...

Tough To Ignore The Will Of The PeopleYou may have heard about the number of signatures on a “do over” petition regarding the recent EU referendum in the United Kingdom. However, given...

The mainstream financial media is repeating the yearly claim that analysts say the second half of 2016 will be better than the first.The media is reporting that analysts believe earnings growth will...

Well, that didn’t take long to happen.In last weekend’s commentary, I discussed the likelihood of Central Bankers leaping into action to stabilize the financial markets following the...

Everywhere one turns there is evidence of widespread rage and frustration. The peoples of Europe and the Americas in particular are aggrieved at their political lot and are becoming increasingly...

Considered the second largest economy, China was still weighing the impact of the Brexit behind the emerging forecasts about the coming changes in the global economy. Knowing that further market...

The European Central Bank will keep utilizing all instruments available to oppose the risk of low inflation in the eurozone, Governing Council member Ignazio Visco stated. For monetary policy, the...

We discuss some of the market standouts today as copper and natural gas continue to outperform other risk assets in this volatile price movement environment.