Market Overview

Despite geopolitics US shares rise on earnings and the economy However, failing to challenge records on the heels of robust revenues suggests a slowdown Dow forms new peak, extends uptrend since...

Turkey: Officials have taken steps to make it more difficult and more expensive to short the lira, but that did not prevent a 5% slide ahead of the weekend. There is no interest rate, within reason,...

Bank Indonesia delivered a hawkish surprise. Malaysian parliamentary committee will reopen its 1MDB probe. Russia took some limited action to support the ruble. Moody’s sounded a warning on...

The economic calendar is light, and many are already on vacation. Even actual economic news has not competed with the ‘what can we talk about on a slow Friday’ story over the last few...

Summary The labor market is in great shape. Consumers are spending at a solid clip. Industrial production is very strong. The purpose of the Turning Points Newsletter is to analyze long-leading,...

A week ago we were concerned that the dollar's surge had left it over-extended from a technical perspective and most of the major pairs, but the yen and Canadian dollar were outside their...

Following futures positions of non-commercials are as of August 14, 2018. 10-year note: Currently net short 698.2k, up 111.9k.In the 12 months to July, the US Treasury issued $544.1 billion in notes...

There are troubles in the air concerning the current status of the world’s economy. Trade wars, slowing global growth and the start of the quantative tightening (QT) era to name a few. From...

Market movers ahead In Norway , Q2 GDP growth data is due out on Thursday. The print will reveal whether or not a slowdown has been under way in Norway. Next week, we get preliminary PMIs in Europe,...

EUR/USD is showing little movement in the Friday session. Currently, the pair is trading at 1.1382, up 0.07% on the day. In economic news, Eurozone Final CPI improved to 2.1%, matching the estimate....

Nine years. Is it short or long? It depends on what we are talking about. In the geological time scale, it’s a blink of an eye. But in the business cycle time scale, nine years is a really long...

The strong stock rallies in the US generally carry through to Asian session. At the time of writing, Nikkei is up trading up 0.45%, Hong Kong HSI up 0.58%, Singapore Strait Times up 0.52%. That...

Friday August 17: Five things the markets are talking about Global trade worries have not disappeared, they are just on hiatus, as market participants prefer to regroup and strategize in this...

The People's Bank of China is actively closing possible capital outflow loopholes and this firewall building will allow it to lower interest rates and weaken the yuan, which makes it very likely that...