Market Overview

It's a busy week on the central bank front, but it's the FOMC who will test the upper limits of the markets Central Bank patience and fatigue.The Federal Reserve The market has settled on 25 basis...

S&P 500 and Nasdaq hit new records as GDP beat boosts economic expectationsWeak technicals persist for both record-beating indicesDollar hits two-year highs U.S. equities are likely to open the...

Join Investing.com senior analysts Jesse Cohen and Clement Thibault as they review the most significant events that impacted financial markets last week and look ahead to what are likely to be the...

You can see it in the GDP numbers, even before they were revised. Globally synchronized growth was always less impressive than what it was made out to be. It’s as true overseas as in the US. The...

As we near the important date of August 19, 2019, and we watch how the markets are reacting based on our earlier predictions, it is becoming evident that the U.S. stock markets and global stock...

The economy grew 2.1% in the second quarter, the Bureau of Economic Analysis reports. Although that marks a hefty slowdown from Q1’s 3.1% increase, the Q2 advance is a bit stronger than...

Everyone is discussing recession right now but how much do they actually worry about it? Does this talk reflect or change people's perceptions? And the key question is: can global indices predict a...

Oil MarketsOil is trading higher as markets are weighing tensions in the Middle East and the trend of weekly inventory draw’s against persistent concerns about the global economic downturn. Data...

It is a matter of how the ECB will act, no longer if. The ECB tasked committees to examine the potential QE restart, rate cut, tiering and forward guidance, although there were no details on rate...

Market movers today It will be a rather thin calendar day ahead , flavoured by more Q2 19 earnings releases globally. In Europe, consumer and economic sentiment data for France and Italy are due for...

The U.S. economy is experiencing its longest expansion on record, but weaker external demand and trade tensions are risks to the outlook. A benign inflation backdrop allows the Federal Reserve room to...

US marketsDespite the ECB dovishness and the Fed all but a lock to loosen policy at the end of the month, equity investors are getting increasingly uncomfortable holding a bullish view as a breadth of...

The global PMI debate Asia Equities As bearish as I was this morning about the current state to the global economy, investors buying impulse driven by central bank easy money policies remains alive...