Market Overview

With Greece now a back-page story, the past week, on a collective basis, was the third best weekly advance so for this year for our world market focus group. All eight were in rally mode with an...

Over the past week, we’ve witnessed a negotiation of monumental incompetence. Greece’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras successfully won a referendum rejecting bailout terms that were no...

Bounces On Shanghai Market Spectacular to Watch. Have we seen the highest crude prices for the year? Banks: Treasury Curve Steepening The curve reversed to steepening in January. This has been...

Obviously, the big news this past week was the Greek deal. This only delayed the inevitable. The plan calls for additional austerity measures, which have been completely ineffective.Greek unemployment...

The US dollar rose against nearly all the major and emerging market currencies in the past week. The notable exception among the majors is sterling, where hawkish BOE comments and another rise in...

The Greek debt crisis offers another illustration of Wall Street’s powers of persuasion and predation, although the Street is missing from most accounts.The crisis was exacerbated years ago by a...

American stocks advanced further yesterday. Nasdaq recorded a new historical high, as Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) added 13.5% after trading day closure. Ebay (NASDAQ:EBAY) increased 3.4%, while Netflix...

Today, the German Bundestag will vote to approve the latest Greek bailout deal. The probability is that the endorsement of the 86 billion euro package will go through. However, it is becoming harder...

Market BriefEuropean equities were upbeat yesterday after Greek parliament approved an unpopular package of austerity measures, which will allow Greece to access €86bn of bailout funds. Mario...

Once again, let's take a look at the latest on the situation with Greece:1. After getting comfortable that the Eurogroup will support Greece, Mario Draghi announced that the European Central Bank will...

With the can apparently being kicked just far enough down the road to push the Greek drama off center stage, the diverging monetary policies reemerged this week as a key force. Yellen and Carney's...

In its weekly FX note to clients today, BNP Paribas (PARIS:BNPP) discusses why EUR/USD short positions are attractive again particularly from a risk-reward juncture. The following are the key reasons...

Draghi said the ECB decided to raise its assistance ceiling by 900 million euros to Greek lenders.The rise seem to be small and not enough to lift the capital controls, but it will help cash machines...

The euro fell to its lowest level in seven weeks versus the U.S. dollar on Thursday after the Greek Parliament agreed to pass reforms that open the door to an 86 billion-euro bailout.Meanwhile, the...