Market Overview

What habit is as old as time itself? It has to be making all kinds of ‘do-better’ resolutions at the beginning of the year, only to see them falter before the birds start building their...

The United States and China are the two largest economies in the world by far, and the upcoming trade war that is about to erupt will be cataclysmic for both sides. The Trump administration and the...

The pound fell Monday after reports that Theresa May has set March 29 as the day to trigger Article 50. The New Zealand dollar was the top performer while GBP lagged. Japan is back from holiday but...

The dollar is trading downwards for the fourth session in a row. The greenback is struggling under the weight of last week’s US interest rate decision. The Federal Reserve made no changes to the...

The G20, is an international assembly of the most influential financial ministers and central bankers from 20 major economies. With the aim of dissecting and reviewing a range of policy issues to...

We discuss central bank monetary policy in this video with regard to the new uber dove voting member Neel Kashkari from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis in regards to his perspective on...

To no one’s surprise, the FOMC raised its target range for the federal funds rate by 25 basis points to between .75 and 1%. The rationale for the move was the prospect for further improvement in...

The U.S. dollar fell to fresh four-month lows on Monday morning, as the trend for the world’s benchmark currency continued to skew negative.As Bloomberg notes, the combination of a holiday in...

As predicted by, well, everybody, the Fed raised interest rates 25 basis points on Wednesday. Let’s parse their statement: Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in...

This week's news was mostly bullish. The LEIs continued to increase and the housing market is still growing. Weak industrial production growth was the only negative. As for the markets, they continue...

"Index shows economic growth increased in February." This is the headline for today's release of the Chicago Fed's National Activity Index, and here are the opening paragraphs from the report: Led by...

US futures are pointing to a marginally lower open on Monday, as traders eye tonight’s speech from Donald Trump as well as a few other from policy makers from the Federal Reserve, Bank of...

US dollar bullish bets rose to $17.60 billion from $15.26 billion against the major currencies during the previous week, according to the report of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)...

Price Is What You Pay. Value Is What You Get – Warren BuffettOne of the hallmarks of very late stage bull market cycles is the inevitable bashing of long-term valuation metrics. In the late...