Market Overview

European indices are eyeing a strong start to the week, following a positive close in Wall Street on Friday and similarly strong session in Asia overnight. Friday’s late surge came as a result...

Looking at the session for Monday, there isn’t much in the way of economic announcements to move the marketplace. However we do have Core Personal Consumption Expenditure or Core PCE out of the...

US NFP is expected to be around 251K, and with the Feds not likely to change policy for at least the next meeting, today’s NFP report will probably not be a strong market mover unless we get a...

US ISM Manufacturing PMI is a leading indicator, but with Nonfarm Payroll Report scheduled on Friday, a strong surprise today will surely add to the speculation of a strong release on Friday, and vice...

US ADP NFP Employment Change usually correlates with Friday’s Nonfarm Payroll Report by the BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics). If we get a strong release, we should see plenty of support for the...

UK Manufacturing PMI is a strong news catalyst for the Sterling, especially considering the timing of the release at the first trading day of the month. If we get a strong/weak surprise, we should...

Last week we learned that maybe, just maybe, global carbon emissions were flat in 2014 even though the global economy supposedly grew by 3 percent. As Brad Plumer of Vox (whose work I greatly respect)...

Friday's release of the publicly available data from the Economic Cycle Research Institute (ECRI) puts its Weekly Leading Index (WLI) at 131.6, up slightly from 131.2 the previous week. The WLI...

Fed Chair Janet Yellen delivered her speech on policy normalisation at the San Francisco Fed conference Friday evening. The speech repeated many of the messages from the press conference following the...

The calendar impacts the investment climate. March 31 ends the month, quarter, and for several countries and companies, the fiscal year. The Easter holiday is typically among the quietest in the...

The additional dollar gains, even if minor - along with Thursday’s Key Reversal days - have destroyed the potential impulsive development. When I first saw this, my first reaction was for a...

Over the past few years, the U.S. Central Bank served as a calming drug by forcing both fundamentals and technicals to take a backseat.One side effect? Markets became lazy and complacent. Traders sat...

In 1948 Warren Weaver, of the Rockefeller Foundation, wrote an article in which he described science “as progressing through successive eras, defined by the three types of problems—simple,...

The strength of the US dollar against GBP/USD last year combined with a flat gold price (expressed in USD) pushed up the price of gold expressed in GBP. This year, the GBP price of gold has been...