Market Overview

The above chart is from “This Week on Wall Street”, a blog run by Doug McKay and Gary Morrow. When I first looked at the chart, my initial thought was 'NASDAQ in March of 2000' but the...

MPCzzzzzzToday’s Bank of England meeting will be the 82nd in a row in which rates have remained at 0.5%. There are good reasons why rates have remained low for that long and good reasons as well...

Dollar tumbled sharply overnight against European majors and yen. The highly anticipated Fed rate hike is already well priced in and the question is what Fed would do next year. So far, recent growth...

The dark clouds from the financial crisis in 2008 have never really dissipated completely. Global policymakers, including government officials and central bankers, continue to worry about a repeat...

Digital currencies could gain mainstream acceptance if Goldman Sachs, the Wall Street bank, gets its way.Goldman has made a patent application for a crypto-currency settlement system in a move that...

The Bank of England is widely expected to leave interest rates and asset purchases unchanged following its meeting today, as the global economic slowdown, lack of inflation and strong pound continue...

Many situations around the world now look to be coming to a head. Geopolitically the East/West push and pull has heated up in the Middle East. Iraq now looks to be pivoting toward Mr. Putin and Russia...

Volatility is rising as flows are starting to pick up around expectations for a rate hike by the Fed next week. US dollar long positions looked to be coming out of the markets at a rapid clip over the...

The RBNZ has caught my attention this morning as it may have signalled a structural change to one of our top down thematics over the past 18 months – central bank differentials.It has given us a...

The USD/CAD lost 0.17 percent as the USD retreated across the board ahead of the Federal Reserve’s rate decision announcement on December 16. There was no data to guide investors as the agenda...

France publishes a hard-data update on industrial activity for October today. Later, the US releases the weekly numbers on jobless claims – the last major report on employment ahead of next...

The second round of French regional elections will be held this weekend. The first round last weekend saw the National Front do best in terms of popular votes and led in six of the twelve regions. The...

Apart from US stock market, other assets continue to underperform Source: Short Side of Long It hasn’t been a good year for most investors, that's for sure. US Treasury bonds (represented by...

Comments from Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz yesterday were resoundingly optimistic about the direction of the Canadian economy in the coming years, despite global and domestic trends that...