Market Overview

The US dollar’s weakness in recent months, despite negative interest rates in Europe and Japan likely had many contributing factors. These factors include shifting views of Fed policy, weaker US...

The week starts with manufacturing and services PMI from Europe. LCG analyst Mauro Fellner is expecting positive results and says this may be the main driver for European growth. US flash...

In 1996, as a way to launch The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America, which went on to become an international bestseller, Lawrence A. Cunningham conceived of and hosted a two-day...

The Fed insists June will be a live-meeting Data-dependency forbids pre-commitment Maximum employment is debated In April, the FOMC left interest rates unchanged, without signalling anything...

According to the most recent cyclical indicators, the strong growth reported in the Eurozone in Q1 is likely to be followed by a slowdown in Q2. We estimate Q2 growth at 0.2% q/q after 0.5% in...

Negotiations over the programme’s first review could beconcluded soon, providing political relief both to the Greeks and the Europeans. Very ambitious fiscal targets were left unchanged,...

Opinion polls continue to signal a close race but 'remain' is still ahead in most polls. Most notable was the Ipsos MORI poll published two days ago, which showed a 55% to 37% lead for 'remain' (from...

Somewhere back in the depths of time the world got the idea that easy money — that is, low interest rates and high levels of government spending — would produce sustainable growth with...

The MPC speaks out on the Brexit vote - and it’s not sugar coatedA historic vote will be taking place on Thursday, June 23, 2016. UK citizens will have an opportunity to put their proverbial...

VIX broke above prior highs and challenged its weekly Intermediate-term resistance at 16.91 before falling back beneath weekly mid-Cycle support/resistance at 15.97. This may indicate a potential buy...

Canada – Retail sales fell 1% in March disappointing consensus which was expecting just a 0.6% decline. In March, sales fell in six of the 11 subsectors, including a 2.9% drop for autos/parts...

Soaring Retail Sales?Headline retail sales for April were reported as a gain of 1.26%, but if one digs under the numbers, the retail picture is not quite as rosy as one would expect. Taking out auto...

Despite the fact that the Fed has raised rates and therefore signaled via policy communication that their view of the economy is rather positive, both bond and stock prices don’t seem too caught...

Markets: Except for the Dow, the major indexes snapped their 3-week losing streak, with small caps and NASDAQ stocks far outpacing the S&P 500. It was another up week for Oil, continuing the...