Market Overview

The French presidential elections are in the spotlight the coming week. Four candidates were fighting for the presidential seat – the far right Marine Le Pen, the independent Emmanuel Macron,...

One of the big questions for this week is whether commodities will rebound from the crash last week. A quick refresher- Brent crude tanked below $47 per barrel – it’s lowest since OPEC...

“Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.” Napoleon Hill Most people are creatures of habit, especially with their daily living...

US imports rose 9% year-over-year (NSA) in March 2017, after being flat in February and up 12% in January. For the quarter overall, imports rose 7.3%, a rate that is slightly more than the 2013-14...

Equities move higherThe S&P 500 and Dow Jones futures both moved higher on Friday supported by a good jobs report in the morning. Sideways trading led to a rally mid day, with some follow through...

The US is the economy is so good it’s beyond full employment and above potential says John Williams, the San Francisco Fed president. Williams Stands by his outlook forWilliams Stands by his...

Note: This commentary has been updated to include this morning's release of Nonfarm Employment for April.Official recession calls are the responsibility of the NBER Business Cycle Dating Committee,...

Today's release of the publicly available data from ECRI (Economic Cycle Research Institute) puts its Weekly Leading Index (WLI) at 144.4, up 1.3 from the previous week. Year-over-year the four-week...

The U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, also known as the FT-900, is published monthly by the Bureau of Economic Analysis with data going back to 1992. The monthly reports include...

Gold has suffered a sharp pullback over the past couple weeks, stoking much bearish sentiment. While a variety of factors fed this selloff, the precipitating catalyst was a gold-futures shorting...

Sancho Panza, Don Quixote’s peasant squire in the classic novel by Cervantes, declared that a wise man should not “venture all his eggs in one basket.” But Warren Buffett famously...

We discuss the day and last week in financial markets covering everything from Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) and bonds to oil and gold in this general market commentary video. Watch for Equities (S&P 500)...

Last week’s review of the macro market indicators saw heading into May that equity markets were making and testing highs again, but in a mixed fashion with strength shifting to the SPY...

The pace of job creation picked up sharply in April, the Labor Department reports. The solid increase suggests that the weak gain in March, which was revised down, was an anomaly. That’s an...