Market Overview

CurrenciesEUR/USD – is moving up again as the USD is weakening, and could be testing the resistance again as we await the manufacturing data out of the Eurozone this morning and later in the day...

There are so many kinds of madness, so many ways in which the human brain may go wrong; and so often it happens that what we call madness is both reasonable and just. It is so. Yes. A little reason is...

The financial media has provided reams of data trying to lay out the case that this economic recovery is real. Many of the statistics provided do indeed support the theme that the outlook is...

Summary: Take the US tech bubble of the 1990s, add the subsequent real estate bubble of the 2000s, multiply by two, and you have a good approximation of the events leading to Japan's stock market...

Improving European manufacturing balanced euro against dollarThe dollar is mixed against major pairs after a week where Fed speakers offered a mixed narrative. The majority of policy makers agree that...

Friday's release of the publicly available data from ECRI puts its Weekly Leading Index at 143.7, down 0.3 from the previous week. Year-over-year the four-week moving average of the indicator is now...

This Friday's release of the May New Home Sales from the Census Bureau came in at 610K, up 2.9% month-over-month from a revised 593K in April. Seasonally adjusted estimates back to February were also...

The Sentier Research median household income data for May, released this morning, came in at $59,345. The nominal median dropped just $16 month-over-month and is up $479 year-over-year. In...

We discuss the overall financial markets in this video, covering everything from gold, Bonds and the HYG to oil, equities and the currency markets. The big question for next week is can oil hold $42,...

(from my colleague Dr. Win Thin) MSCI (NYSE:MSCI)I announced it will include 222 China Large Cap A-shares in its Emerging Markets Index. Czech central bank is pushing out rate hike...

Beginning in December of last year, following the announcement by OPEC of a cut in oil production, I've discussed the “headwinds” that persist against a sustained rise in oil...

For what seems like forever, the Fed has been saying they are using a 2% inflation target. Given this expansion’s weak growth, this seems to be a fair and appropriate number.But intuition can be...

Frisky Fed Hike-o-Matic We haven’t commented on central bank policy for a while, mainly because it threatened to become repetitive; there just didn’t seem anything new to say. Things have...

The US dollar edged higher against most of the major currencies over the past week. However, the fundamental backing is still not solid, and it makes as wary of these upticks, even though we think a...