Market Overview

VIX broke above prior highs and challenged its weekly Intermediate-term resistance at 16.91 before falling back beneath weekly mid-Cycle support/resistance at 15.97. This may indicate a potential buy...

Canada – Retail sales fell 1% in March disappointing consensus which was expecting just a 0.6% decline. In March, sales fell in six of the 11 subsectors, including a 2.9% drop for autos/parts...

Soaring Retail Sales?Headline retail sales for April were reported as a gain of 1.26%, but if one digs under the numbers, the retail picture is not quite as rosy as one would expect. Taking out auto...

Despite the fact that the Fed has raised rates and therefore signaled via policy communication that their view of the economy is rather positive, both bond and stock prices don’t seem too caught...

Markets: Except for the Dow, the major indexes snapped their 3-week losing streak, with small caps and NASDAQ stocks far outpacing the S&P 500. It was another up week for Oil, continuing the...

The word for today is “orderly”.That word came up many times this week in a feud between the US and Japan at another useless G7 meeting on global growth and competitive currency...

Federal Reserve monetary policy once again came to the forefront as the Fed released its April minutes this week.After living through years of ZIRP (Zero Interest Rate Policy) coupled with QE...

Kyle Bass focuses much of his commentary on what's going on in China, and in actuality the Fed has been the biggest driver of price in this trade so far the past year.See video below:

The Philippine central bank moved to an interest rate corridor Saudi Arabia is preparing to sell its first global bond ever Transport Minister Yildirim, a close ally of President Erdogan, will...

This morning's release of the April Existing-Home Sales increased from the previous month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.45 million units from an upwardly revised 5.36 million in March. The...

The Latest Conference Board Leading Economic Index (LEI) for April was released yesterday, but we failed to post usual our update. Here it is ... a day late. The index increased 0.6 percent to 123.9...

In addition to earned income, another important source of purchasing power for consumers is government benefits. We can see this by subtracting US federal government spending on goods and services as...

The key development of the previous few days has been the shift in expectations about a possible Fed rate hike during the June / July period. Whereas markets even a week ago attached a very low...

Risk markets will continue to be challenged by uncertainties over growth and the Fed outlookThe Fed rattling its sabre - yields to move higher over the coming quarters More downside in EUR/USD short...