Market Overview

Latest BBC business news headlines – “Martha Lane Fox joins board of Twitter” – “Brighton Pier sold for £18m” – Cameron “I could have dealt with...

Mainstream news outlets are already starting to use the phrase “economic collapse” to describe what is going on in some areas of our world right now. For many Americans this may seem a bit...

The recently released 103-page transcript of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Interview of Warren Buffett on May 26, 2010 provided some very interesting insights into the causes of the...

Industrial production for Italy is the main event for today's EU releases The data will show if growth is firming in the third largest Eurozone economy The EURUSD rally faces stronger headwinds as the...

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...

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...

We have a heavy macro week ahead with plenty of data releases from China. This includes CPI and PPI on Monday. Head Analyst Brenda Kelly says Friday is the big day for Asia with the release of Q1 GDP...

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...

Francois Perol, CEO of BPCE, France’s second-biggest bank, is more worried now than he was in 2009.“It was 100 percent clear what had to be done in 2009,” said Perol, who cited...

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,...