Market Overview

The richest people I know or meet always tell me the same thing: prime cities in the developed world simply can’t go down. New York, London, Paris, San Francisco, Vancouver, Singapore, Sydney...

The latest Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index was released this morning based on data collected through September 17. The headline number of 103.0 was a slight improvement from the August...

DOW + 47 = 16,049 S&P 500 + 2 = 1884 NASDAQ Composite – 26 = 4517 10 YR YLD – .04 = 2.09% Crude Oil + .80 = 45.23 Gold – 4.40 = 1128.70 Silver + .04 = 14.74 Single-family home...

DOW – 312 = 16,001 S&P 500 – 49 = 1881 NASDAQ Composite – 142 = 4543 10 YR YLD – .07 = 2.09% Crude Oil – .03 = 44.40 Gold – 14.20 = 1133.10 Silver – .53...

That historic Armonk-headquartered company, IBM (NYSE:IBM), says that it believes application programming interfaces (APIs) will constitute a $2.2 trillion market by 2018. Putting its money where its...

With this morning's release of the July S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price we learned that seasonally adjusted home prices for the benchmark 20-city index were down fractionally month over month for the...

Private nonfarm payrolls in the US are projected to increase by 172,000 (seasonally adjusted) in Wednesday’s September update of the ADP Employment Report vs. the previous month, based on The...

Two huge pieces of news hit Monday like a one-two punch. First; UBS is about to blow the cover on a massive gold-rigging scandal followed by; Saudi Arabia withdraws overseas funds. Gold and oil both...

Today marks the fourth straight month in a row that the S&P Case Shiller Home Price Index Composite has missed economist estimates, as a growing chorus of financial analysts call the top of the...

Yesterday was a particularly trying day on stock markets, with the S&P 500, NASDAQ and S&P/TSX Composite down by 2.6%, 3.0% and 2.8% respectively. Fears of a slowing economy in China and the...

We call on central banks to abolish their zero interest rate policy (ZIRP) framework before more harm is done. In our assessment, ZIRP is bad for all stakeholders and may even lead to war.ZIRP: Bad...

Friday's labor report, highly anticipated and over-hyped, will used by investors to help time the Fed's liftoff of rates. While Insight's Economic Activity Index (EAC) reveals a transition from...

US stocks tumbled on Monday as investor confidence was undermined by evidence of slowing economic growth in China and uncertainty when the Federal Reserve will hike interest rates. The dollar...

Yesterday during an event held at the Marquette University Business Forum in Milwaukee, Federal Reserve Committee Member Charles Evans spoke out against jumping the gun and increasing interest rates....