Market Overview

First US rate hike since 2006 ECB disappointed at December meeting Fed on track for December rate hike EUR/USD set to fall in December but rebound in 2016 To Read the Entire Report Please Click on the...

As expected, the BoE kept the Bank Rate and stocks of purchased assets unchanged at 0.50% and GBP375bn, respectively. The vote was once again 8-1.Although the pressure on the BoE to keep rates low...

In terms of data releases, focus will be on the US retail sales in November. This is one of the few remaining figures to be released ahead of the FOMC meeting next week. Consensus expects an increase...

We covered a wide of range of subject matter. Rather than dumping the entire interview into one transcript, I decided that breaking out the individual questions and answers might be more efficient for...

Last week's OPEC meeting made it clear that the cartel is unlikely to support prices any time soon. Oil prices have dropped to seven-year lows as a result.What could stop the current price slide?...

As we survey the investment horizon for 2016 the picture that we see is not highly attractive.Economic and Financial Fundamentals: Slightly Positive On a fundamental basis, the world is growing at a...

The U.S. may see inflation of over 2 percent at some time in 2016. The U.S. Federal Reserve has set 2 percent as the rate of inflation that they would prefer to see in the U.S. An inflation rate above...

Asian markets had a mixed day to end the week after positive leads from Wall Street. Trepidation around the Fed, seasonal tax loss selling, CNY devaluation and the post-OPEC sell off in oil have been...

DOW – 75 = 17,492SPX – 15 – 2047NAS – 75 = 502210 YR YLD – .03 = 2.21%OIL – .28 = 37.24GOLD – 2.10 = 1073.50Stocks started the day in positive territory but...

If we really are plunging into a deflationary global financial crisis, we would expect to see commodity prices crash hard. That happened just before the great stock market crash of 2008, and that is...

Australian Employment Data Wrong? What Matters to Traders: Yesterday’s Employment figures out of Australia were what can only be described as marvellous! …if taken on face value that is....

Thursday was the first up-day this week as the S&P 500 struggles to resist oil’s slide to multi-year lows. But “up-day” is a relative term since we only finished four-points to...

Let's take a long-term view of household net worth from the latest Z.1 release. A quick glance at the complete data series shows a distinct bubble in net worth that peaked in Q4 2007 with a trough in...

Here’s one for the “actions speak louder than words” file: Massive insider selling spurs stock market concerns (CNBC) – Corporate insiders have been selling their shares at...