Market Overview

The two main events next week in Sweden are Prospera's quarterly inflation expectations survey and August inflation data. These are potentially strong market drivers. Our August CPIF forecast is now...

Market Movers After the Chinese market close Thursday and Friday last week, focus is likely to return to China and several important data releases are due later this week. The euro area Sentix...

Daily BriefingCurrenciesEUR/USD: The pair is trading below its downward trend line on a 4 hour time frame. The next resistance is at 1.1565 and the support is at 1.1006. USD/JPY: The pair has broken...

The G20 meeting concluded with a massive support for the People Bank of China and all members agreed that the country is facing challenging time and its support is very important. The main element...

The kiwi dollar is facing a significant rout as concerns over a slowing domestic economy and the potential for looser monetary policy by the RBNZ continue to weigh.The NZD continued to slide last...

Chinese markets reopen … with a bang or a whimper?Trading in Asia today will be driven by two major factors: The delayed response to Friday’s non-farm payrolls (NFP) number out of the US...

Friday’s US payrolls report seems a distant memory now with Chinese equity markets resuming trade in a seemingly optimistic mood. There was always a chance it could have been another ugly Asian...

While we were led to believe that the Fed would begin tightening upon recovery, new fears of a double dip have sparked the Keynesian clan into moving in the opposite direction. Soon enough, we...

There’s something few folks are talking about, but it’s something every investor needs to understand. We call it the “Yellen trap.” It could have huge ramifications for your...

Official recession calls are the responsibility of the NBER Business Cycle Dating Committee, which is understandably vague about the specific indicators on which they base their decisions. This...

S&P 500 stocks are now trading below the 200DMA and the 200 has turned down. Even under the most optimistic circumstances, it's going to take months to recover. Gold, on the other hand, is ready...

There are three, arguably interrelated, known unknowns that are seemingly on everyone's mind.First is the decline in global equity markets. Is this simply a long overdue correction? Wasn't August 24...

Many pundits, analysts, and articles lately have said or suggested that inflation is below the Fed's 2% inflation target. However, on Friday, Jeffrey Lacker, a member of the FOMC, argued that...

Generally when the stock market enters a phase of volatile trading days I tend to sit back and try to remain calm. Market corrections are normal and come along more frequently than we often seem the...