Market Overview

I can hear it now from someone reading the title: 'A HA! this guy is finally bearish after all this time -- I knew he would come around'. That couldn't be further from the truth, in fact the bearish...

VIX made a reversal pattern this week, but closed near its weekly low.The next move out of a Broadening Bottom or Megaphone formation is to break out above the upper trendline. Its average target...

China’s economy is holding up despite the recent crash in the stock market, which has fallen 27% from its peak on 8th June. Q2 real GDP growth was released on July 15th at 7.0%, above consensus...

The Greek news of the day is Greek Stock Market to Reopen, With Restrictions.RestrictionsPeople cannot draw on their Greek bank accounts to buy shares People can only buy shares with existing...

DOW – 56 = 17,689SPX – 4 = 2103NAS – 0.5 = 512810 YR YLD – .07 = 2.20%OIL – 1.64 = 46.88GOLD + 7.10 = 1096.40SILV + .04 = 14.87For the week, the S&P 500 index gained...

America is changing its diet. Consumers are demanding healthier options over traditional fatty fast food. And as a result, “fast casual” restaurants are eating traditional fast...

Last week’s review of the macro market indicators suggested, heading into the last week of July, that the equity markets were a bit weaker, but mixed with the tech names, the strongest....

I’ve written about several leading, lagging, and coincident indicators for the economy over the last year: Stocks, real estate, jobs, GDP – each says a different thing about the economy....

ARCA:JNK - ARCA:HYG Weekly Chart Credit Spreads Predicting Market Change - How much lower can gold and silver go?

Numerous Economic Indicators to be Released with All Eyes on U.S. Non-Farm PayrollsThere is an avalanche of economic indicators next week. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), the Bank of England...

This trend of declining sales and at least stagnant prices should continue as Title XIV of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform - quietly abandoned this spring - and Consumer Protection Act makes the...

One of the biggest stories to emerge has been the decline in Emerging Market Currencies. The IMF noted this in their latest World Economic Outlook, which stated: Growth in emerging market and...

The University of Michigan Final Consumer Sentiment for July came in at 93.1, a decrease from the 96.1 June final reading. Investing.com had forecast 94.0 for the July Final. The Index is at its...

Today's release of the publicly available data from ECRI (Economic Cycle Research Institute) puts its Weekly Leading Index (WLI) at 133.0, marginally down from 133.4 the previous week. The WLI...