Market Overview

The WTI crude hit a 10-month low of $42.05 on Wednesday. Even the 2.45 million barrel contraction in last week’s US stockpiles couldn’t give a break to the aggressive sell-off in the...

European and US equity markets underwent another disappointing session yesterday, undermined by continued weakness in oil prices, as well as concerns about sliding inflation expectations hitting...

A mild decline projected for CBI’s UK Industrial Trends Orders Index in June US jobless claims on track to remain close to a multi-decade low Consumer sentiment in Eurozone expected to remain at...

Rember Abeconomics and the BOE buying lots of stocks and other assets? One analyst has states that it’s an official monetary policy failureDuring September last year, the decision by the Bank of...

The Q Ratio is a popular method of estimating the fair value of the stock market developed by Nobel Laureate James Tobin. It's a fairly simple concept, but laborious to calculate. The Q Ratio is the...

Wednesday morning's release of the May Existing-Home Sales increased from the previous month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.62 million units. The April count was revised slightly downward...

Brazil is another one of those topics which doesn’t seem to merit much scrutiny apart from morbid curiosity. Like swap spreads or Japanese bank currency redistribution tendencies, it is...

Bed Bath & Beyond (NASDAQ:BBBY) is set to release earnings after the market closes on Thursday, June 22nd. Both Wall Street and Estimize believe this will be a down quarter in comparison to the...

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...