Market Overview

FTSE -15 points at 7510 DAX -42 points at 12780 CAC -20 points at 5287 Euro Stoxx -17 points at 3562Oil fell to the cheapest level since May 9th on speculation that the anxiety around the Qatar-crisis...

European equity markets are expected to open a little lower on Tuesday, in-keeping with the moderate risk aversion that we’ve seen overnight and as traders look ahead to a number of major events...

The financial markets continued to absorb major news events with surprising ease last week. Be it the tragedies in the U.K., the withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement, or the weakness in...

In the framework of government policy, there is enormous interest in relating the specific condition of any economy to how the government must respond to it. This, of course, presupposes that this is...

The Institute of Supply Management (ISM) has now released the May Non-Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI), also known as the ISM Services PMI. The headline Composite Index is at 56.9...

The May US Services Purchasing Managers' Index conducted by Markit came in at 53.6 percent, up 0.5 percent from the April estimate. The Investing.com consensus was for 54.1 percent. Markit's Services...

Nothing has changed with the domestic or global economy in recent weeks, and that is the key to the ability of equities to keep slugging out new highs. We are in a proverbial wall-of-worry climb that...

The investment universe is littered with articles touting the advantages of various funds or strategies. I should know. I have written for the last five years about the characteristics of ETFs and...

Surprising no one, last week, President Donald Trump announced his decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement, highlighting the depth of his commitment to keep “America...

INTRODUCTIONThe ruling PRI narrowly won the state of Mexico. Yet the margin was hardly assuring to those looking ahead to the 2018 national elections. We think today’s bounce in the peso is...

Markets softened at the beginning of what could be a game-changer of a week in politics and monetary policy. Last week’s soft US jobs report, another terror attack in London in the run up to the...

Valuation At New Decade HighOpinion: All of the indexes closed higher Friday with mixed internals on the NYSE while NASDAQ internals were positive. However, overall volumes declined on both exchanges...

The French stock market has ticked lower in the Monday session, and the CAC index has dropped 0.68 percent. Currently, the CAC is trading at 5,307.80 points. On the release front, there was mixed news...

Bank holiday’s across parts of Europe is contributing to relatively subdued trade at the start of the week, with a number of major events scheduled for the coming days also likely aiding this.Is...