Market Overview

Over the Christmas weekend, instead of enjoying time with family at home, our Senior Analyst found himself making a quick round-trip from Los Angeles up to California’s snowy far north and back...

Another quiet day today, in advance of the end of 2016, with no major economic data releases.To read the entire report Please click on the pdf File Below

In a new white paper, CaseyQuirk has identified four catalysts said to be driving secular change in the active asset management world: New buyer demands emphasizing different value propositions for...

Without doubt, 2016 was the year of the big surprise. Or to be more accurate, surprises.The biggest surprises were the Brexit decision in late June, when—despite all expectations to the...

Euro spiked higher in Asian session on ultra thin market condition but quickly retreated. EUR/USD hit as high as 1.0653 but is back at 1.0530 at the time of writing. The pair is also limited well...

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In thin holiday markets, a correction to the trends seen in Q4 has materialized. The US dollar is heavy. Japanese and European equities are lower. Bonds are firmer.Some reports try to link the moves...

Demand in oil and commodities retreated in Asia. WTI futures bounced lower after hitting $54.57 in New York, the highest level since July 15.Asian traders handed over a risk-off market. FTSE futures...

Few people today call themselves speculators. The word is too loaded. Instead, they are traders, hedge fund managers, and the like. But, whatever they call themselves, they are speculators....

by Eli WrightThe US dollar moved lower and nearly all global equity markets have wilted on low-volume, quiet holiday trading. Sell-offs dominated the exchanges yesterday and into this morning. In Asia...

FTSE -26 points at 7080DAX -43 points at 1142 CAC -21 points at 4827 Euro Stoxx -15 points at 3263 Trading volumes rose in Asia, as capital flew out of the equity markets. Japanese stocks fell the...

Today, financial markets will continue to monitor the situation on the Chinese money market. Depreciation pressure on the CNY persists, as upward pressure on offshore money market rates continues to...

The tech IPO market is widely expected to turn around in 2017, if for no other reason than that it is hard to imagine the market performing any worse than 2016. MarketWatch notes that that 2016 saw...

Overall, the US economy is in strong shape. Unemployment is low, growth is positive (but moderate) and inflation is under control. But the expansion is also getting old; the possibility of a negative...