Market Overview

DOW + 106 = 18,004SPX + 13 = 2094NAS + 21 = 496010 Y + .02 = 1.77%OIL – .42 = 39.94GOLD – 2.00 = 1233.10The Dow topped 18,000 for the first time since July. At the year’s low in...

Back to square one if you look at the closing levels for crude oil (WTI) and the USD/CAD pair, you could think that the Doha conference never took place: A rise in the currency of 200 points, followed...

Just as I have been predicting, everything is going up together. The longer one listens to the perma bears, the more potential profit you are going to miss out on. 2016 is going to be a very good year...

Where Is The Chinese Banking Sector Coming From?China’s banking system was deemed monolithic, with the central bank People’s Bank of China (PBoC) as the major entity authorized to conduct...

Developing confidence about a portfolio strategy’s track record (or throwing it onto the garbage heap), whether it’s your own design or a third party’s model, is a tricky but...

Forex News and EventsGermany suffers and accuses the ECB Tensions are rising between Germany and the ECB over the European institution’s current monetary policy. Germany believes that QEs and...

Currencies EUR/USD: The pair has broken its upward trend line on a 4 hour time frame. The next support is near the 1.114 level and the resistance is at 1.1586. USD/JPY: The pair bounced from...

The stability in oil prices has strengthened attitudes among traders who are developing a strong appetite for riskier assets. After an initial plunge in oil prices due to a failed meeting in Doha, oil...

If you’ve been living under a rock for the last couple of decades you may not have heard of deliberate practice. Anders Ericsson, who along with Robert Pool, a science writer, has just published...

Global capital markets staged an impressive recovery after the initial reaction to the failure to freeze oil output sent reverberations through the oil markets, commodities, and Asian equities. The...

Considering all that has occurred in global markets over the past week you would be forgiven for having missed an important figure from China’s recent GDP results. Suspiciously, China’s...

Doha meeting? What Doha meeting? Yesterday’s knee jerk decline in oil prices to the disappointing outcome was very quickly reversed as the day wore on. The price of the commodity is also...

Week in reviewCanada – As widely anticipated, the Bank of Canada left its overnight rate unchanged at 0.50% in April. However, the central bank revised its GDP projections and presented a first...

The overall positive tone in the credit markets returned last week with the iTraxx Main tightening some 5bp to close at 73bp, while the iTraxx Crossover tightened some 13bp to close at 317bp. The...