Market Overview

The resistance will take the form of subverting the signifiers of wealth that exemplify the few who have benefited so greatly while everyone else lost ground.It's time to trade in your Jag, Mercedes...

On Wednesday night the S&P Futures opened near unchanged before tanking 20 handles down to the 1910 area on a slight miss of the Chinese manufacturing PMI number. During the Euro session, the...

Fed uncertainty has put markets in straitjacket;Lower EM demand expected to weigh on German Ifo survey; US durable goods orders seen rising for fifth month; Yellen speech may remove some of the cloud...

A minor decline is expected for the September Ifo survey data for Germany US durable goods orders are on track to fall in the August update New jobless claims in the US should rise for the first time...

With the 99% of second quarter earnings reports for the S&P 500 now in, I can update my quarterly analysis of earnings and estimate trends through the 2nd quarter of 2015.Second quarter's results...

On my Tastytrade show recently, I’ve been mentioning how I believe the bears have “the wind at their backs” now. I pondered to myself what precisely what I meant by that phrase, and...

College Tuition and Fees constitute one of the biggest threats to our economic outlook. Here is a chart of data from the relevant Consumer Price Index sub-component reaching back to 1978, the earliest...

The article is a must-read for anyone interested in US real estate trends and income demographics. Here is a slightly edited version of the Tim's table of the key data. We've rounded the dollar...

During the current bull market, I have favored a “Stay Home” investment strategy over the “Go Global” alternative. That’s worked quite well, though I’ve missed...

Lately there’s been quite a lot of volatility in world markets.The Shanghai Composite Index has tumbled close to 40 percent since hitting a seven-year high in June. The S&P 500 Index dipped...

Following the Bitcoin story is like riding a thrilling rollercoaster. There’s ups and downs along the way, but it does seem like the cryptocurrency is gaining legitimacy slowly. Only, it’s...

US stocks ended sharply lower on Tuesday as investor concerns over slowing global growth led to selloff in materials stocks. Investor concerns over global growth outlook intensified after Federal...

Earlier this year I reviewed ten asset allocation mutual funds with a range of strategic designs as an academic exercise for exploring how multi-asset strategies stack up in the real world. Not...

Euro manufacturing PMI declined to 52.0 from 52.3 in line with consensus. Given the weakness in China and EM we had expected a larger decline and it seems that the domestic economy so far remains...