Market Overview

Will the latest market rally go contrary to historical trends? CHART ABOVE: A swing chart of the daily price action of the S&P 500 from July 15 to November 21, 2008. Snippet from Pivotal Events...

Baby Boomers and retirement – it’s a tough subject for anyone in the financial planning business.After working most of their lives, Baby Boomers want it all in retirement: travel, dining...

Note: The NYSE has released new data for margin debt, now available through July. We've updated the charts in this commentary to include the latest numbers.The New York Stock Exchange publishes...

The Personal Income and Outlays report for July was published Friday morning by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The latest data includes annual revisions for the previous few months.The latest...

The University of Michigan Final Consumer Sentiment for August came in at 91.9, a slight decrease from the 92.0 Preliminary reading. Investing.com had forecast 93.0 for the August Final.Surveys of...

Friday's release of the publicly available data from ECRI (Economic Cycle Research Institute) puts its Weekly Leading Index (WLI) at 131.5, down fractionally from 131.7 the previous week. The WLI...

Here is an advance preview of the monthly moving averages we track after the close of the last business day of the month. At this point, before the open on the last day of the month, all three S&P...

Four of the eight indexes on our world watch finished in the red this past week, an improvement over the previous when all eight posted substantial losses. However, the skew remains negative, with the...

Home buyer wavesI'm in the midst of what will ultimately be my most comprehensive research project to date, and henceforth will aim to share a few high level viewpoints and findings on this page along...

When stock markets are free-falling 10+% in a matter of days, it’s natural to seek some answers to the question “why now?”Some are saying it was all the result of high-frequency...

Stock markets around the world climbed on Thursday after upbeat U.S. GDP data relieved the negative sentiment that had been pulling shares down earlier this week. European shares also climbed and...

Treasury yields held on to their modest rebound this week through Thursday’s close, ahead of the Federal Reserve annual conference that begins today in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. No doubt the...

Yesterday we saw a continued reversal of the risk averse trades from earlier in the week with commodity currencies gaining alongside commodities themselves, whilst the euro slid back to bounce off the...

The dollar remained higher against most major currencies on Thursday, after a batch of strong U.S. economic reports which boosted optimism over the strength of the economy. The Commerce Department...