Market Overview

Dollar drifts higher on encouraging US data The pendulum swung back again yesterday as better-than-expected US data improved the relative attractiveness of USD, while the continued stalemate in Greece...

Market BriefIn Asia, equity returns are turning green after a choppy morning. Chinese stocks came under pressure after MSCI (NYSE:MSCI) deferred inclusion of China’s domestic A-shares into its...

In 2013, Fabrice Douglas Rouah published The Heston Model and Its Extensions in Matlab and C#. Now, for those who feel more at home with Excel spreadsheets, comes The Heston Model and Its Extensions...

A_Joe sent me a question on market cycles:You wrote a post (here) that talked about market cycles. I request that you share some more information on market regimes and how it works within the...

Market MoversFocus remains on Greece. It has been confirmed that Greek Prime Minister Tsipras will hold a meeting with German Chancellor Merkel and French President Hollande on the sidelines of...

Talking Points: US Dollar Still Waiting for Direction Guidance in a Choppy Range S&P 500 Pause to Digest Losses After Three Days on the Downside Crude Oil Rebounds, Gold Prices Oscillating in...

European futures are expected to open lower again on Wednesday as indices look to extend losses to a fifth consecutive session on the back of Greek uncertainty and rising bond yields. We are seeing...

EUR/USDToday’s support: - 1.1250, 1.1202, 1.1160, and 1.1115(main), where correction is possible. Break would give 1.1086, where correction also may be. Then follows 1.1058. Break of the latter...

Industrial production is the main event for economic news today, including releases for France and Britain. Later, the US housing sector is in focus with an update on demand via the weekly figures on...

At last year's Jackson Hole Symposium, Fed Chair Janet Yellen delivered an extended analysis of "Labor Market Dynamics and Monetary Policy". Her speech essentially reviewed the ongoing debate over the...

The latest issue of the NFIB Small Business Economic Trends was out on Tuesday. The update for May came in at 98.3, a 1.4 point increase from the previous month. The index is now at the 39th...

The latest JOLTS report (Job Openings and Labor Turnover Summary), data through April, is now available. The first chart below shows four of the headline components of the overall series, which the...

The Labor Force Participation Rate (LFPR) is a simple computation: You take the Civilian Labor Force (people age 16 and over employed or seeking employment) and divide it by the Civilian...

Our earlier update on demographic trends in employment included a chart illustrating the growth (or shrinkage) in six age cohorts since the turn of the century. In this commentary we'll zoom in on the...