Market Overview

The Federal Reserve decided to hold its benchmark interest rate at its record low 0.25 percent, where the policy statement failed to provide any evidence about the timing of the first liftoff since...

Steady as she goesLast night’s Federal Reserve meeting was a lesson in expectation management, keeping the market guessing as to when the Fed will divert monetary policy from its current...

The US dollar is broadly firmer in the wake of the FOMC statement, but there are some notable exceptions. The market appears reluctant to sell sterling ahead of next week's MPC meeting, where hawkish...

Reactions to the FOMC statement overnight were relatively muted. Fed sounded upbeat on the economy but left little clue on whether it will raise interest rate in September. The statement noted that...

Fundamental Analysis These days it is all about finding the niche in the market and cashing that idea and this will be the biggest challenge for Yahoo’s new invention. The real value these days...

The only thing which was the most surprising in the Fed statement yesterday was the length of their speech. It was the shortest statement in nearly three years and the information was as concise and...

The US dollar strengthened as the Federal Reserve remained optimistic about the economy and a September interest rate hike. Federal Reserve officials cited positive employment data after a...

You have to hand it to the Federal Reserve. They look primed to put up the fed funds rate in September, perhaps December. Yet at the same time, equities looks supported and the yield curve remains...

CNBC's Sara Eisen asked me last Tuesday if I was still bearish on one of Wall Street and Goldman Sachs Group Inc's (NYSE:GS) favorite stocks, even after it had already fallen more than 45% since I...

IntroductionThe primary attractions supporting investing in bonds or other fixed income instruments have traditionally been high income and safety. People invest their principal in bonds and receive a...

Yesterday I found myself reading GMO’s latest quarterly letter and thinking, ‘wow, I’m fairly bearish but Jeremy Grantham just sounds like a grumpy old man!’ Until I came upon...

Most nations in South America are either already experiencing an economic recession or are right on the verge of one. In general, South American economies are very heavily dependent on exports, and...

Yesterday, the National Association of Realtors released the June data for their Pending Home Sales Index. The NAR reports that "after five consecutive months of increases, pending home sales slipped...

The general consensus is that the Millennial cohort consists of people born between the early 1980s to the early 2000s. In this study we will focus on the Bureau of Labor Statistics data for those...