Market Overview

Weekly Risk Watch:Crude Oil comes to the front of both Forex and Commodities traders watch lists this week as the world’s major producers both within and outside OPEC come together in Doha,...

Some dovish signals from the Fed and a bounce in oil prices helped EM end last week on a firm note. This week, the US retail sales report could be important, and the same goes for CPI and PPI data...

Over the past three months and especially the past month, the dollar has fallen against all the major currencies but the British pound. Sterling's underperformance can largely be explained by...

The eurozone remains in a deep, largely macro-economic crisis. A robust global economy and falling oil prices have supported Europe’s economy for some time, but by now it is clear that the...

I wish I had the answer to correct the wealth imbalance between the average Joe and the ultra-rich. Personally I see no evidence that taxing the crap out of the rich to gift the poor will do anything...

Of the troubled companies in the wake of the financial crisis AIG was the most troubled. It received a staggering $182.3 billion in bailout money, and few people believed it would ever be able to pay...

The Federal Debt:The current amount the U.S. government owes is over $19 trillion, and therefore it is mathematically impossible to pay back. They will never be able to pay this back. Central bankers...

VIX appears to have completed its Wave (2) low and emerged above its Pennant formation. It also challenged mid-Cycle resistance at 15.90, giving an aggressive buy signal (NYSE sell signal). Two...

In the wake of a huge plunge in wholesale inventories that still left the inventory-to-sales ratio in the stratosphere, the Atlanta Fed GDPNow Model plunged to +0.1% Latest forecast: 0.1 percent...

China’s official reported reserves rose in March for the first time in five months. Though reserves had fallen to barely $3.2 trillion in February, that was down just $28.6 billion from January,...

Not to continue beating a dead horse, but I have a stick and the carcass is right in front of me. The entire supply chain inside the US economy is full agreement both on where the economy is right now...

In July last year, the BEA reconfigured its GDP benchmarks to incorporate the results of the comprehensive 2012 Economic Census. That broad and deep survey found much less “recovery” than...

Last week’s review of the macro market indicators heading into the first full week of April saw the equity indexes looking strong and ready to make another leg higher. Elsewhere looked for gold...

Today's release of the publicly available data from ECRI (Economic Cycle Research Institute) puts its Weekly Leading Index (WLI) at 133.2, up 0.2 from the previous week. The WLI annualized growth...