Market Overview

The Brookings Institute says Auto slowdown Flashes Caution Lights for Manufacturing Employment and Trump.A switch to self-driving, trends towards electric, and a glut of used cars are all in the...

A Bank of Canada rate hike wasn't even on the radar a month ago but on Wednesday the BoC joined the Fed and is the second major central bank to hike rates. What's more, as we anticipated, it was a...

While there was nothing groundbreaking in Chair Yellen's perfunctory testimony, she unambiguously drew attention to inflation as the critical determinant of Fed rate hikes. Given the market’s...

American consumers are financially strained. One indication? Card defaults rose from 2.81% back in November to 3.53% in May. Meanwhile, the expansion of credit by cards as well as by autos has slowed...

US measures of core inflation fell from February through May. The US reports June CPI at the end of the week. There is a reasonable chance that the core rate stabilizes. However, the movement away...

SPX Monitoring purposes; Covered short on 7/6 at 2409.75=gain 1.2%; Short SPX 6/26/17 at 2439.07. Monitoring purposes Gold: Neutral Long-Term Trend monitor purposes: Neutral. Above is a sentiment...

We've updated our monthly workforce analysis to include last week's Employment Report for June. The unemployment rate ticked back up from 4.3% to 4.4%, and the number of new nonfarm jobs (a relatively...

Fed funds futures are currently pricing in a low probability that the Federal Reserve will squeeze monetary policy at any one of the next three FOMC meeting (July 26, September 20, November 1). The...

by Pinchas CohenKey Events Dollar weaker; S&P flat on Trump Asian markets affected by currency and business European markets rise Risk-off and Risk-on operate in tandem Oil jumps on falling...

On the “Real Investment Hour” on Tuesday night, I addressed the issue of price versus fundamentals. In the short-term, a period of one-year or less, political, fundamental, and economic...

The US dollar and sterling have stabilized after being sold off yesterday. The yen, which had begun recovering from a four-month low, is the strongest of the major currencies today, gaining around...

Wednesday promises to be quite an entertaining day for markets, with central banks once again the focus as the Bank of Canada announces its latest monetary policy decision and Federal Reserve Chair...

Wages keep booming in Eastern Europe, expanding at +15% year-on-year (yoy) in Hungary and Romania in April-May 2017 and more moderately in Poland, Czech Republic and Slovakia. Unemployment rates...

Yellen To Testify And Three Things Matters All devotion would be on Janet Yellen's testimony and investors are going to focus on three major areas and that would drive the trend for the dollar. The...