Market Overview

Here is the opening statement from the Department of Labor: In the week ending May 20, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 234,000, an increase of 1,000 from the previous...

Market movers today Focus today will be on inflation in the US and Germany, which will provide an important gauge of the underlying inflation pressures after a couple of months with volatile readings...

Euro tumbles broadly this week as some traders are betting on an early election in Italy, that creates some political uncertainty again. Leaders of major political parties are going to discuss, in the...

FTSE -20 points at 7,527DAX -20 points at 12,608 CAC -33 points at 5,299 European markets look for a slightly lower start as the UK and US come back online on Tuesday after an uneventful Asian session...

The past week was marked by two important events: the meetings of the OPEC and the Group of Seven leaders. Oil futures rose on the expectations of the meeting, but corrected after the meeting of the...

Gravity eventually overpowers financial fakery.When debt-asset bubbles expand at rates far above the expansion of earnings and real-world productive wealth, their collapse is inevitable. The Supernova...

There is a war going on within the economic community as to whether to deficit spend or balance the budget. The thing that is missing in this debate is context.From The Reagan Revolution -...

European Commission’s Business Climate Indicator on track for six-year high US personal income and spending is expected to perk up in April Conference Board’s US Consumer Confidence Index...

ETF Securities (US) LLC, a New York-based asset manager and manufacturer of ETP’s (Exchange Traded Products),” has issued a white paper written by its Director, Investment Strategy,...

After posting strong gains on Friday, gold is unchanged in the Monday session. In North American trade, spot gold is trading at $1266.79 an ounce. There are no US events on the schedule, as markets...

We discuss the idea of Basic Income in this video, we run the numbers from an economic and market perspective, and the numbers aren`t pretty given the population, inflation, debt and government...

Ahead of next week’s European interest rate decision, and Mario Draghi’s quarterly probing before the European Parliament; the ECB president will likely be asked: where is inflation?As...

Key Points: Fed likely to be monitoring the PCE Deflator results closely. June rate hike still possible but caution is likely. Failure to tighten monetary policy likely to lead to a greenback...

European markets are sluggish at the start of the week, and the CAC index is almost unchanged in the Monday session. Currently, the CEC is trading at 5,327.50 points. On the release front, there are...