Market Overview

We have written on NIRP and continue to evolve analysis and forecasts based on its expanded and deepening usage. Here are two of our recently published commentaries: “Tug of War,”...

Asian markets are generally lower as dragged down by Fed's rate talk as well as oil price. Yen gains broadly on risk aversion. Boston Fed president Eric Rosengren said that market pricing of Fed's...

European markets are expected to open lower on Tuesday, tracking similar losses in the U.S. and Asia overnight.We saw another sell-off in oil on Monday which may have contributed to the losses in...

The reality is that we're one panic away from foreign-exchange markets ripping free of central bank manipulation. While all eyes on fixated on global stock markets as the measure of "prosperity" and...

Losing to Win – Trading CommentaryI sometimes sense from email correspondence I receive from the Factor community that they are obsessed with being “right,” or put another way, their...

Eurozone retail spending is set to rise for fourth straight month in February A firmer growth trend is expected for the March ISM Non-Manufacturing Index Will US job openings continue to increase in...

The basis for the ongoing economic paradigm shift that seems to be manifesting in a slow, lingering slowdown (that is now more than year into contraction) in the US and global economies can be nothing...

Factory orders were slightly positive year-over-year (not seasonally adjusted), the first plus sign in this category since October 2014. While that may seem like a positive or at least a step in the...

“Hope Floats” is the title for a column I write every spring around the end of March or the first week of April. The reason is the same every year – prices have levitated in some...

I am often critical of central banks these days, and especially the Federal Reserve. But that doesn’t mean I think the entire institution is worthless. While quite often the staff at the Fed...

Rising markets include biotech (iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology (NASDAQ:IBB)) which is seen in the chart below. One of the keys to successful trading and investing is knowing which markets are in up...

The Fed finally acknowledged at its meeting in March that markets were right all along to expect a much less aggressive path of interest-rate hikes than it had been peddling for the last several...

For the past two weeks the heretofore inseparable tracts of ES and oil have seriously diverged.Since Apr. 22, ES is up about 1% while oil has declined by nearly 14%. ES remains in a well-defined...

Two of the most important terms to understand in stock trading are a bull market and a bear market. You may have heard this terminology before, but might not have a complete grasp on what the...