Market Overview

Markets: The market had its worst week since August, as falling crude oil prices added to investors’ uneasiness about next week’s Fed meeting, which is widely expected to result in the...

A butterfly flaps its wings... a hurricane strikes miles away.According to Chaos Theory, a seemingly irrelevant action can precipitate, and contribute to, a major event. The right set of factors comes...

The US dollar turned in a mixed performance in the week following the ECB's surprise and the healthy US jobs report. In some ways, the greenback was like a fulcrum, not the driver.The dollar-bloc...

“Fed Model” fans are familiar with the S&P 500 earnings yield, since it is the Fed Model calculation that subtracts the 10-Year Treasury yield from the Earnings Yield of the S&P...

1. Activity increased during the Commitment of Traders reporting week ending 8 December. There were four significant (10k+ contracts) gross currency adjustments by speculators. Given that this period...

Investors, fellow central bankers, and the media continue to try to make sense of last week's ECB surprise. We had argued that given the market positioning, especially the dramatic accumulation of...

Record €98m order for non-food retailerStore Electronics Systems (SES) has announced that it has won the largest ESL order in the history of the market. The €98m order from a leading...

EUR/USDToday’s support: - 1.0918 and 1.0906(main), where correction is possible. Break would give 1.0885, where correction also may be. Then follows 1.0861. Break of the latter would result in...

After three consecutive sessions of declines, stock markets worldwide are showing signs of recovery as U.S. shares climb while European and Asian shares are mostly down. The ongoing rout in oil prices...

EUR/USDCurrent level - 1.0940 The intraday bias is slightly negative, for a possible slide towards 1.0900 minor support, but the overall outlook remains bullish, for a rise towards 1.1100...

The US dollar is confined to narrow ranges against the euro and sterling after pushing higher yesterday. The greenback is staging stronger upticks against the yen but is struggling to resurface above...

CurrenciesEUR/USD: This pair has broken its downward trend line on a 4 hour time frame. The next support is near the 1.0657 level and the resistance is 1.1085. USD/JPY: The pair is trading below its...

Reader Tim Wallace sent in another series of interesting charts showing the existing trends in employment, government spending, population, and labor force. Click on any chart for a sharper image. In...

The FTSE 100 slipped below the 6100 mark. All sectors are in the red expect healthcare and pharmaceuticals trying to swim against the stream in London.Miners were higher this morning on the back of...