Market Overview

The market works in strange ways – at times at least. We didn’t get the minor follow-through I had been expecting yesterday and that was frustrating. One point I noted was that, compared...

Growth in U.S. manufacturing activityData released yesterday morning showed the strongest growth in U.S. manufacturing activity in close to two years, a reading that was well received by investors and...

‘Wait And See’ Mode In European MarketsThe FTSE 100 spent most of Wednesday trading back and forth around the flat line. The bullish fever that catapulted shares to a new record high on...

Our monthly market valuation updates have long had the same conclusion: US stock indexes are significantly overvalued, which suggests cautious expectations on investment returns. In a "normal" market...

How do you say “Netflix and chill” in Mandarin? It doesn’t really matter, because they can’t do it.At the end of 2016, Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) became the latest online services...

In this week's market analysis, we will look at potential trading opportunities and zones where we should look for price action, evidence and potential moves. Pairs and markets analyzed this week:...

DOW + 119 = 19,881SPX + 19 = 2257NAS + 45 = 5429RUT + 8 = 136510 Y + .01 = 2.45%OIL – 1.23 = 52.49GOLD + 7.30 = 1159.20Stock markets all over the world opened 2017 with a bang. An upbeat Chinese...

2016 is finally closed and in the can, so to speak. It will go down as a year filled with unexpected surprises. The Fed quickly backed off its proclaimed path of having four 25 basis point interest...

ECB QE tapering speculation is likely to be boosted in coming months, as euro area inflation is set to pick up considerably but we do not expect the ECB will announce tapering in 2017.We expect the...

The FOMC minutes from the December meeting are due to be published tonight. It will be interesting to see what discussions the members had about the outlook for 2017, as the Fed was more hawkish than...

The FTSE 100 stocks opened flat to negative. Clothing retailer, Next PLC (LON:NXT), plunged 12.56% at the open, after the company cut its annual profit forecasts and warned of a difficult year. UK...

The Census Bureau reports November Construction Spending rose 0.9% from October. That’s a 10-year high, but it’s highly unlikely to last. U.S. construction spending rose more than...

by Eli WrightMarkets returned from the New Year holiday yesterday in mixed fashion. The U.S. dollar ended the day lower, but Wall Street indices were all broadly higher and the FTSE broke the 7,200...

It is rare that predictions of ours are proved correct in such a short amount of time but our thoughts that 2017 would be dominated by Trump on trade and investment, inflation and Brexit negotiations...