Market Overview

The main event this week is undoubtedly the US presidential election today.As we wrote in our US election monitor, It's not over until the fat lady sings , 4 November 2016, it is much too early to...

The EUR/USD traded rangebound, a touch above the 1.1030 (major 38.2% retracement on Oct 25th to Nov 4th rise). The US presidential election should trigger two-sided volatility later in the session....

German industrial output is expected to contract for September Analysts project that UK industrial output is steady but manufacturing will fall The pace of US job openings in September is on track to...

What are the long-term trends for multiple jobholders in the US? The Bureau of Labor Statistics has two decades of historical data to enlighten us on that topic, courtesy of Table A-16 in the monthly...

The LMCI was positive in October for the third time in the past five months. Revisions are to be expected in any statistic, but more so with the Fed’s factor model by its construction where it...

As if anyone needed any proof as to why economics needs to be so thoroughly debunked, it was on display again today. I am talking about Rome over Carthage defeat, where the textbooks of Economics...

I licensed this coin flip photo late last week thinking that it would be reflective of how tight the Presidential race had become. Between the New York Times stories on the Clinton Foundation, the...

Since most everyoneis focused on the upcoming U.S. elections, many investors may not have had the time to peel back the onionon the third quarter U.S. GDP report. So, if you just glanced at the...

Brexit always promised to be a thorny problem. It would be a daunting task under ideal circumstances, and conditions are far from ideal.The situation has become more complex in recent days. First, the...

Over the last two weeks, a lot of the bullish sentiment that was embedded in the market has now given way to fear. I have written many articles previously on investing, portfolio and risk management...

Risk-ON!An appetite for risk is flowing through markets into the US election as markets such as stock Indices continue to price a Clinton victory as almost a lock. S&P 500 Daily: You...

A wave of positive economic data suggests the Chinese economy is stabilizing and that business confidence is improving. The country’s purchasing managers’ index (PMI), which measures the...

I had to write yesterday’s report on Sunday due to an important meeting that I had yesterday morning. Thus, I completely missed the gaps on open. I knew we were due a reversal in the dollar but...

Clinton no longer a target for the FBIFBI Director James Comey announced Sunday that the probe into the most recent emails found a few days ago did not lead to any new evidence implicating the...