Market Overview

This is what our mode of production optimizes: ugliness, debt-serfdom, and servitude to politically dominant corporations.An insightful correspondent recently remarked on the striking transition of...

Looking to the past as a way to gauge the likely direction of the future is a popular exercise in the first quarter of every year. It’s a natural desire for people to want to improve on their...

German exports in December are on track to fall for the first time in three months U.S. jobless claims should stick close to a 44-year low in today's weekly release The Brexit-triggered decline in the...

Key Points: Greece and Germany on a debt collision course. Greece unlikely to meet budget or debt repayment schedule. The question is now political as to whether Greece remains part of the EU. It...

Is promising to create 25 million jobs an unrealistic whopper by a fellow who tends to tell whoppers? Or is President Donald Trump simply thinking big, as he is wont to do? In a 9/15 campaign speech...

In the next week, Germany, China and Europe are reporting their Balance of Trade (BOT) indicators.Germany is about to report for its December 2016 Trade of Balance on Thursday, Feb. 9. After a huge...

Some say the idea that things happen in threes comes from Macbeth, a tragedy written by Shakespeare. Far be it for us to comment on the link between a 400-year old play of greed, ambition and lust for...

Economists and market analysts around the world will never forget the roller coaster financial activity of 2016. This was a year of great geopolitical uncertainty that was highlighted by the Brexit...

In the second instalment of the analysis of the US economy, we look at the effects of inflation and the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy. The decrease in oil prices and the strength of the...

Caution continues to rear its head in financial markets on Wednesday and yet, a day after setting record intraday highs, US indices are poised to open a little higher once again.Political risk remains...

First-quarter GDP growth for the US is expected to pick up after a sluggish Q4, according to forecasts from several sources. It’s still early in the quarter, but the preliminary estimates for...

The US dollar is edging higher against most of the major currencies in a session devoid of much news. The Canadian dollar and the Japanese yen are the exceptions. The euro is the weakest of the...

by Eli WrightIn the face of ongoing global political and economic uncertainty, as well as falling oil prices after yesterday's API weekly crude oil stock release showed a bigger than expected build in...

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