Market Overview

The Bank of Japan is engaged in the most aggressive asset purchases and yet it has largely failed to lift inflation. National consumer prices for June will be reported at the end of this week. The...

One of the most ironic and fascinating characteristics about an asset bubble is that central banks claim they can’t recognize one until after it bursts. And Wall Street apologists tend to ignore...

Stocks Markets are Seeing RedChinese stocks, which ended the session today down by 8.5%, are pulling other world stock markets down with them. In North America, futures for both the S&P 500 and...

While all eyes will be on the Fed’s announcement later this week, keep your eye on Brazil, which releases its policy statement on the same day. CPI increased from 6.5% in July of last year to...

Every so often you come across a post from a trader talking about a specific stock along the lines of "Is there a reason NOT to own XYZ plc?"Whenever I see a question like that, it immediately sets...

In the second quarter, we saw a jump in yields across the board. The yield of 10-Year US Treasuries jumped from 1.9% to 2.4% over the course of the quarter, representing a yield increase of 50 bps....

The Bank of England’s interest rate decision may be about to get interesting again, after years of predictability.With fears Greece could crash out of the euro zone on the back burner for now,...

EUR/USDToday’s support: - 1.0963 1.0935 and 1.0918 (main), where correction is possible. Break would give 1.0893, where correction also may be. Then follows 1.0867. Break of the latter would...

Systemic risk build, USD lower in G10The sell-off in equity markets accelerated in the Asian session, increasing the potential for systemic risk. China’s Shanghai Composite is now down -8.48%,...

•Stocks fall around the world as commodities slump Stock markets fell around the world on Friday and continued to decline in Asia on Monday as the selloff in commodities only worsened. The...

From a technical perspective, the US dollar looked vulnerable to start the week, but the 8.5% drop in Chinese shares in Shanghai provided additional fuel. The linkage between the two is that global...

Greece’s international creditors will arrive in Athens on Tuesday after the delay of talks, which was supposed to begin on Friday, due to technical issues.The negotiations were postponed for a...

German business confidence, based on a survey of 7,000 executives, rose more than estimates in July on ebbing concerns from Greece after it reached an agreement with its creditors.The business climate...

On Friday, July 24th 2015 the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) released its weekly report labeled ‘Commitments of Traders’. This report covered the trading week ending July 21st...