Market Overview

Risk appetite has improved dramatically in the markets this week, as it appears that investors are finally seeing opportunities following weeks of uncertainty, volatility and heavy selling.Overnight...

Market Movers The manufacturing sector in the UK is suffering from the slowdown in the manufacturing sector globally and the strong GBP, which makes UK goods more expensive. This is also evident from...

The dollar slipped lower against the other major currencies on Tuesday, amid mounting uncertainty over whether or not the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates at its meeting this month, after...

Chinese markets’ ‘Sophie’s Choice’Global markets have been buoyed by China’s new market intervention and the announcement from the China’s Ministry of Finance (MoF)...

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) is facing some tough choices this week as they are presented with lacklustre price inflation, as well as a slowing domestic economy. However, the question...

UK industrial production data unlikely to boost the manufacturing outlook US Redbook Index to provide guidance on consumer spending US job openings for July will be a clue to the state of the labour...

My most recent blogs – August 10 and August 11 – highlighted the unprecedented volatility that has characterized the U.S. stock market over the past year. I concluded that...

Let's take a close look at Friday's employment report numbers on Full and Part-Time Employment. Buried near the bottom of Table A-9 of the government's Employment Situation Summary are the numbers for...

The next 48 hours will be massive for global central banks, with major monetary policy decisions taking place in Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and Russia all on tap this week. The first central bank to...

The U.S. economy created 173,000 jobs in August, falling short of the 217,000 new jobs expected by the market. The number of full-time jobs in the U.S. now stands at over 122 million, an all-time...

On March 10, 2009 the US stock market hit an intraday low and put in the now-famous “Haines bottom”--coined after my friend, the late great Mark Haines, who made one of the most prescient...

In the United States, wages have stagnated and even declined for a long time. This is true for most working citizens, including those who graduated from college. The recently released employment...

The latest overnight data from China has confirmed the worst suspicions of economists and market participants: China is experiencing a hard landing. After a decades long effort to modernize the...

The growing parallels between 2015 and 1998 among global market forces (soaring US dollar, plummeting oil prices prices, rising equities, escalating market volatility and flattening US yield curve)...