Market Overview

The talk of a March rate hike by Fed is heating up this week. It's reported that based on Bloomberg's world interest rate probability tool, the markets are pricing over 50% chance for a March hike....

Donald Trump's speech to Congress today will be monitored closely, as a few weeks ago he promised that he would announce 'something phenomenal in terms of tax'. His speech has potential ramifications...

Though we may think of modern economies as being modern and perhaps disassociated with some of the more primitive aspects of the past, there remain to this day seasonal fractures in economy and...

While the majority of the financial world has its focus on every move in Washington D.C., there is another very important development happening in the German bond market. What was once the best short...

Uncertainty is rising ahead of the French electionGerman yields trade lower and DKK strengthens Higher yields is an H2 17 theme EUR/USD to trade lower near term but still higher longer term To read...

For more than 100 years global debt levels have been rising, and now we are potentially facing the greatest debt crisis in all of human history. Never before have we seen such a level of debt...

There is a misplaced psychology among active investors and many advisors that they must always be doing something with their portfolio. It’s the notion that activity leads to profitability or...

Monday was another day of confused trading as the dollar was hit by soft data and a slowdown on Trump's tax plan but rallied late anyway. The euro was the top performer while the yen lagged. Japanese...

The mercantilist inclination by the Trump Administration makes it seem as if exports are good and create jobs and imports are bad and cost jobs. This is simply not true. This assessment is not based...

In response to the 2007-2009 financial crisis, policy-makers in the U.S. who had absolutely no idea what caused the crisis enacted legislation that would supposedly prevent such a crisis from...

The Canadian dollar was bolstered Friday by inflation data that outstripped economists’ expectations as the introduction of a carbon tax in Alberta and Ontario drove gasoline and natural gas...

Warren Buffett has made headlines in the last few years regarding his involvement in the solar industry via Berkshire Hathaway's (NYSE:BRKb) ownership of MidAmerican Energy (now a subsidiary of...

It was a mixed bag in European markets on Monday with investors jostling for position ahead of a busy week of company earnings. Investment decisions have been tempered by (the now routine) uncertainty...

US equities are edging higher this morning. The rally comes after the S&P 500 moved 0.2% higher in the afternoon on Friday.The first presidential address before a joint session of Congress will...