Market Overview

DOW – 57 = 21,410SPX – 1 = 2435NAS + 45 = 6233RUT – 3 = 139910 Y + .01 = 2.16%OIL – 1.06 = 42.45GOLD + 3.70 = 1247.30BITCOIN – 0.11% = 2709.21 USDETHEREUM – 2.77% =...

This Great Graphic was tweeted by Martin Beck, and it comes from Oxford Economics, using Haver Analytics database. It shows the relative economic growth since 2008 for the US, UK, Japan, and EMU. It...

When central banks create money to underwrite a worldwide credit boom, do people become prosperous? Or does the electronic money creation encourage excessive borrowing that steals from future...

Uber just cannot seem to help itself, finding a way to get in the news, and often in ways that leave its image in tatters. You could see this pattern in full display last week, where Travis Kalanick,...

Every few years or so, this story goes around to great acclaim: inflation is dead, killed by the internet. Recently, we have been hearing this story again, quite loudly. The purchase of Whole Foods...

This Great Graphic composed on Bloomberg shows the balance sheets of the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, and the Bank of Japan as a proportion of GDP. The Federal Reserve 's balance sheet...

Forecasting economic activity is generally a thankless task — unless you’re using demographics as a modeling foundation, which provides a surprisingly accurate means for looking ahead....

Opinion: All of the indexes closed lower yesterday with broadly negative internals on the NYSE while NASDAQ internals were mixed. Two short term uptrends were violated as all closed at or near their...

European stocks are expected to open lower thanks to retreating US equities.US Stocks US stocks gave up all-time highs as energy shares dragged indices lower. Energy stocks led declines, dragging the...

by Pinchas CohenKey Events Crude tumbles into bear market territory on oversupply worries US stocks retreat from all-time highs on oil data Safe haven assets bounce, as investors' inflation fears...

The US dollar is narrowly mixed against the major currencies. The drop in oil prices (3.3% this week) is seen as one of the factors that may be underpinning the appetite for fixed income, and this, in...

Carney punctures rate hike hopesWhile a speech by the Governor of the Bank of England may not have had the greatest effect on sterling yesterday it was not long until the politics of coalition...

Yet another massive ICO hit the Internet last night. Status, who is building a browser portal to other decentralized apps, has seemingly just raised about $100 Million in just 3 hours.You can see...

China’s central bank has started to tighten monetary conditions since Q4 2016, principally via the rise in repo rates and the increase in the rates on its “liquidity facilities”....