Market Overview

The latest Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index was released this morning based on data collected through July 16. The headline number of 90.9 was a significant drop from the June final reading...

The US economy skidded on an ice patch at the start of the year. It seemed to be stuck in a soft patch during the early spring. However, May retail sales blew that notion away: It increased 1.2%...

A potential equity market set-up from our often cited 1946 cyclical top, may be finally getting ready to "set the hook", as participants brace for a future rate hike from the Fed this fall. Should the...

Gold miners becoming uneconomical — how many more as gold prices fall? US consumer confidence slumps to its worst since 2011 But Ford is kicking butt (and selling $60,000 trucks) Even as China...

I found yesterday a strange day. There were no two halves, but a steady singular directional move in most of the currency pairs. That we didn’t see a minor new high in EUR/USD was a real...

It’s hard to believe that it’s been a full six weeks since the Fed’s last meeting, where the median central banker just barely maintained a preference for two rate hikes this year....

After an impressive yearlong stock-market rally, China’s stocks are retreating and showing signs of an asset bubble burst. Since late 2014, the Shanghai Composite Index jumped around 100...

Correspondence with a longtime Camp Kotok fishing partner concerning some interesting omissions from the Fed’s most recent semiannual report to Congress piqued my curiosity as to how feasible...

Shares in China suffered their second biggest ever fall on Monday as the main Shanghai Composite plummeted by 8.5%. There was uncertainty as to what caused the latest sharp losses given recent signs...

It’s been a brighter start to the European session on Tuesday as indices pare yesterday’s losses amid positive earnings reports, good data from the U.K. and an easing of the sell-off in...

•More of the same: China lower, commodities lower, Fed funds lower, dollar lower It was more or less the same pattern Monday as on Friday. With Chinese stocks collapsing and commodities...

Investors certainly not fond of the headline which prints worst sell off rout in Chinese equity market since 2007. All what it does is make them risk averse and misplace their appetite for riskier...

Daily BriefingCurrencies EUR/USD: The pair is trading in a downward channel on a 4 hour time frame. The next resistance is at 1.1216 and the support is at 1.086. USD/JPY: The pair has formed a...

A global selloff was triggered after Asian markets crashed early on Monday, leading to declines worldwide. The Shanghai Composite slid 8.5% in its biggest one-day slide since 2007, causing the market...