Market Overview

EUR/USDToday’s support: - 1.1203(main),where correction is possible. Break would give 1.1182, where correction also may be. Then follows 1.1154. Break of the latter would result in 1.1130. If a...

A brief look at the Riksbank, ECB and the Fed To Read the Entire Report Please Click on the pdf File Below

Market Movers Focus continues to be on China and the oil price but comments from Jackson Hole regarding Fed policy will also be studied closely. See the full program here . In terms of data, Germany...

While Asian equity markets extended yesterday's rally, a consolidative tone has emerged elsewhere. This translates into heavier equities in Europe, including US shares that trade there, lower core...

I’ve been an Economist reader since the mid-1990s. The covers are one of the best things about the magazine. They are always creative and often amusing.The Economist cover from March of 1999...

Daily BriefingCurrenciesEUR/USD: The pair is trading below its downward trend line on a 4 hour time frame. The next resistance is at 1.1557 and the support is at 1.1136. USD/JPY: The pair has pierced...

Disputes over GDP go on and on and on. MarketWatch reports By another measure, the U.S. economy was ho-hum in second quarter.There are two ways to compute how well the economy is doing. One is to...

I like to practice what I preach. I don’t own my home. I rent.I’ve been renting my house in Tampa since October 2005, because I’ve seen what’s coming – the bursting of...

U.S. stocks closed lower Tuesday after a failed attempt to rally from the Dow's worst 3-day point decline. It’s something I have not seen since the 2008 GLOBAL financial crisis.The market had...

Back at the start of the month, the Securities and Exchange Commission decided to adopt a brand new metric that is causing quite a bit of controversy. Companies are now required to publicly declare...

After the recent market pullback, I thought I'd simply post the following Year-to-Date percentage-gained/lost graphs of a variety of world markets to illustrate (at a glance) which ones are still "up"...

Today’s second estimate of second-quarter GDP reflects a strengthening US economy, which has experienced a dramatic uptick in growth in stark contrast to the lackluster first-quarter results....

Wall Street notched its biggest one-day gain in four years on Wednesday as investors set aside their fears about China to go bargain hunting for stocks. Bay Street followed suit, with the Canadian...

The global economy was weak even before the recent commodity and stock-market crash. However, the recent reports from China, Japan and Europe, among other countries, imply that there is a sharper...