Market Overview

Fed’s balance sheet unwinding may hurt sentiments on stocks. Good opportunity to buy gold?Fed’s downgrade on its long-term target rate to flatten yield curve, which is seen as negative to...

CA GDP is expected to move the market in the event we get our tradable deviation (as listed below), and if we do not get our deviation, it is a no trade.Obviously, you could still trade using...

RBNZ Interest Rate decision today is expected remain at the current level of 1.75% as there are very little expectations for a surprise today.Furthermore, considering the last official statement out...

FTSE -21 points at 7289 DAX -32 points at 12560 CAC -11 points at 5270 Euro Stoxx -11 points at 3530The German election resulted with a disappointing win for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s grand...

The incoming economic data hasn’t changed its tone all that much in the last several years. The US economy is growing but more slowly than it once did and we hope it does again. It is...

Asian markets headed broadly lower Friday in response to increased aggressions between the U.S. and North Korea, including a statement from the North Korean foreign minister that the regime is...

When the price of oil rises to the point of pain, just remember the handy-dandy discount mechanism: a much stronger US dollar.Glance at this chart of the trade-weighted U.S. dollar, and note the swing...

On Friday, US indices followed a mixed course, mostly in the green area, with slight moves because of the increased geopolitical tension by North Korea. Due to analysts, markets gained resistance to...

Lucian Bebchuk, a professor at Harvard Law, has been at the heart of scholarly arguments over corporate governance for a long time, perhaps since 1990, the year he edited a textbook on Corporate Law...

(from my colleague Dr. Win Thin)EM FX was mostly firmer on Friday, but capped off a week of broad-based losses. US rates gave back some of post-FOMC rise, and that weighed on the dollar. Not much in...

Janet Yellen has quipped that the Fed’s balance-sheet reduction program, which will start at $10B/month in October-2017 and steadily ramp up to $50B/month over the ensuing 12 months, will be as...

This video looks at the reasons for bull markets to often end in parabolic blow-offs, and reveals how the sentiment data can be used to identify these conditions in advance.Below you find the video

Merkel is Queen of the Ball but her dancing partners will change. Rather that waltz with the SPD, she may have to first give other suitors a chance. The FDP is her natural partner, and the Greens may...

by Pinchas CohenThe Week That WasFed: Predictable, Unpredictable The most highly anticipated event of the month, the Fed policy meeting this past Wednesday, played out as expected. However, it ushers...