Market Overview

Economic UpdateThe Eurozone fared well throughout the quarter with signs of economic activity improving. This will please the European Central Bank (ECB) and vindicate their decision to implement the...

Will Germany’s exports suffer amid global slowdown? The crowd expects another upbeat US jobless claims report US Consumer Comfort Index may help sort out mixed sentiment data The potential for...

China's markets have been closed since the end of September and re-open tomorrow. It is interesting to note what has happened in the global capital markets in the interim. The US dollar has fallen...

No Other WayIn order for Greece to regain market financing access and be rid of international supervision, she must implement the set bailout program… and fast! These were the sentiments of...

Employers No Longer Hiring, Wages DroppingOver the past two months employers in the US have simply stopped hiring causing quite some concern about just how robust the economy really is. Not only have...

Is the Federal Reserve still pondering a rate hike in 2015? Possibly, but the recent weakness in employment growth and industrial activity suggest that keeping the Fed funds rate close to zero may...

Commodities boosting equities- FTSE +0.78%Once again the flip back to basic resources helped by a positive upgrade from Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) on a number of mining stocks is giving the UK benchmark...

•Bank of Japan remains on hold. BoJ kept monetary policy unchanged as was widely expected, and said that the Japanese economy has “continued to recover moderately.” At the press...

Since the Federal Reserve left rates on hold on September 17, the dollar-bloc currencies have outperformed the euro, yen, and sterling, all three of which are lower against the dollar. So far this...

Central Bank Policy Rates Current RatesBank of England: 0.50% Bank of Japan: 0.10% Fed: 0.00%-0.25% (currently 0.14%) ECB: 0.05% Central Bank Balance Sheets Three QuestionsOther than asset bubbles,...

Tail ChaseIn the wake of recent economic data, economists at the IMF and Deutsche Bank lowered their growth estimates.IMF Cuts Forecast AgainLike a dog running in futile circles hoping to catch its...

Market BriefOvernight, the BoJ held its monthly meeting and decided, as expected, to keep its qualitative and quantitative programme unchanged at ¥80tn per year. However, we do expect the Bank of...

DOW + 13 = 16,790SPX – 7 = 1979NAS – 32 = 474810 YR YLD – .02 = 2.03%OIL + 2.78 = 49.04GOLD + 11.70 = 1148.60SILV + .22 = 15.99The U.S. trade deficit increased to a five-month high...