Market Overview

“As we embrace complexity we come to the end of theory.” So writes Richard Bookstaber, author of A Demon of Our Own Design, in his new book, subtitled Financial Crises, the Failure of...

We delve into the topic of trading and investment stops in this market video from a myriad of angles, the types of stops, psychology of stops, stop strategy, price action and stops, etc. in covering...

We saw a few leading stocks act pretty solid this past week on earnings while most aren’t acting so good from what I see.The Nasdaq has been doing well as a result of just a few stocks, while...

Oil prices in 2017 have been determined by two main counterbalancing forces—supply cuts led by OPEC and rising shale oil production in the US. The production cuts agreed in November 2016 between...

As investors, we are always looking for that next big return. We are trying our best to turn a small investment into a fortune... a home run that turns a $10,000 investment into $110,000, if not...

While earnings, tax reform and a looming potential government shutdown held the front page of the financial news this past week, the alt-currency market had a newsworthy week itself.The Chinese...

EM AsiaWith 100 days of unexpected clear sailing for Asia FX under our belts, local EM currencies continued to strengthen despite the reflationary trade fading and commodity prices flagging as inflows...

US political rollercoaster The US political roller coaster is showing little sign of abating despite the House of Representatives and the Senate passing a 1-week Continuing Resolution funding the...

Those that were predicting that the U.S. economy would be flying high by now have been proven wrong. U.S. GDP grew at the worst rate in three years during the first quarter of 2017, and many are...

In addition to a miserable performance in the auto sector and a very poor GDP report, the Trump Era Brings Rare Drop in Loans at America’s Regional Banks. Bank stocks have climbed since Donald...

The last Housing Market Review covered data reported in March, 2017 for February, 2017. At that time, the iShares US Home Construction (NYSE:ITB) was at the bottom of what turned out to be a very...

We discuss the trading environment for the week as we close out the month of April, focusing on the immense liquidity story in financial markets along with answering viewer questions, and covering all...

The first reading for Q1 2017 GDP came in at a weak .7% at an annualized rate. A particularly weak component of the report was consumer spending which rose only .3% and is the weakest level for...

Note: The charts in this commentary have been updated to include the Q1 2017 Advance Estimate released this morning. The chart below is a way to visualize real GDP change since 2007. It uses a stacked...