Market Overview

EUR/NOK . Fundamentally, the economic recovery in Norway still strongly depends on a weak currency, lower wage growth and the growth of important trading partners (e.g. the euro area and the UK). With...

A calendar of key events in the Commodities Market for the week ahead.To read the entire report Please click on the pdf File Below

The US presents a thin calendar next week with the most important release being the preliminary Markit PMI manufacturing index for April due on Friday. Despite the recent turnaround, we do not expect...

Whenever I think that consumer credit growth must be nearing the tipping point, the next month consumer credit grows again. After all, logic dictates the more debt grows the harder it becomes to repay...

VIX challenged its weekly mid-Cycle resistance at 16.06, closing beneath it. It appears to be on an aggressive buy signal (NYSE sell signal), while closing above mid-Cycle resistance may confirm the...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) released its bi-annual survey of the global economy last week. As has been customary in recent years, the outlook for global growth has been revised down. The IMF...

Survey based economic reports continue to run counter to real world, actual data. Since the real data tends to lag, an optimist would probably take this as good news. A pessimist would dismiss it...

There is great allure in comparing our current economic circumstances to those in 1937, and why wouldn’t there be? The associations are especially striking, starting with the gaping hole left...

These are happy days for G10 commodity currencies. Global commodity prices are recovering as fears about a hard landing in China and the oil-supply glut are abating. Also, the February G20 meeting in...

We all know the old saying that ‘the market can remain insane longer than investors can remain solvent’. We are now living the phrase.4/13/16: JPMorgan Chase & Co (NYSE:JPM) released...

Hungary has become the first Eastern European country to issue a yuan-denominated sovereign bond.The deal shows how currying favor with China may be a more important driver for the market than...

Do you love working 40-50+ hour weeks? Do you want to be a Wal-Mart greeter after you get laid off from your longstanding corporate job? Do you love relying on underfunded government entitlements that...

The world’s central banks devise conventional and unconventional ways to depress interest rates. The impact? Consumers purchase goods and services on credit with favorable financing terms....

DOW – 28 = 17,897S&P 500 – 2 = 2080NAS – 7 = 493810 Y – .03 = 1.75%OIL – 1.07 = 40.43GOLD + 6.50 = 1235.10It was a pretty good week on Wall Street, even though it...