Market Overview

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...

Nothing to see. Just another 8% bounce…While you were on Spring Break, the risk markets continued their upward ways helped by Janet Yellen’s dovish speech noting slow global growth and...

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...

Gold just had its best quarter in nearly three decades. The precious metal rose 16% during the January through March period (via SPDR Gold Shares (NYSE:GLD)), nearly doubling the return from long...

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...

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...

U.S. jobs beat expectations once againIt’s definitely getting harder and harder to question the strength of the job market south of the border. Once again, employment data released on Friday...

After the past weekend's centralised wage agreement in trade sectors we are halfway through the private sector negotiations.From a monetary policy perspective, the market-based negotiations in the...

U.S. equity markets are expected to start the week on a positive note, with futures currently higher by around a quarter of one percent.In the absence of any major catalysts in the markets at the...

The expected risk premium for the Global Market Index (GMI) ticked higher in March—the first increase in five months. GMI—an unmanaged market-value weighted mix of the major asset...