Market Overview

Market Movers With no other important data on the agenda, markets will focus on the latest news out of Greece. At the time of writing negotiations are still ongoing but seem to be heading towards a...

US Core CPI is expected to rise to around the 0.2% and with the Fed watching inflationary figures closely, any strong deviation to today’s figure should cause plenty of market reaction, thus we...

CA Core CPI is likely a strong high-impact event but since it’s released at the same time with the Core CPI out of US, and with US being Canada’s largest trade partner, I believe US data...

ECB Interest Rate is done in 2 parts, first with the rate decision at 7:45am then followed with a press conference at 8:30am. The most important part of the rate decision is the Press Conference,...

NZ CPI is a quarterly release therefore there is a chance for the forecast to miss, making this release a bit more volatile than monthly releases; however, in the event we get our tradable deviation,...

US Core Retail Sales is a high impact release and with the risk appetite sentiment picking up momentum, a stronger release could add more demand for the USD, at least for the time...

We now have "THE Final Offer Before Grexit" (I think). Of course, more offers will come after Grexit.The Financial Times has the Four-Page Text of the Eurozone Demands on Greece. The document is not...

There was no agreement on Saturday or so far today. And the rift between France and Germany has widened. Yesterday I outlined Merkel's Choice.Merkel's ChoicePony up another €80+ billion to Greece...

There never was going to be any deal. All along, Germany has been seeking to establish conditions that would never be met so that they could force Greece out of the eurozone. But the Germans had to do...

A recent paper by two scholars affiliated with the the University of Delhi discusses the performance of socially responsible stock portfolios both during periods of boom and of bust within the Indian...

It’s all getting rather tedious, but we’ve begun the week with some gaps – not quite the gut wrenching ones we have seen over this Greek tragedy saga – but one that has...

Was it a coincidence? The S&P 500 rose 1.2% on Friday to 2076. Fed Chair Janet Yellen spoke about the economy and monetary policy the same day. Previously, I’ve observed that whenever she...

There are two broad courses for the capital markets in the week ahead. The first is a continuation of what we have experienced for the past two weeks. Greece's financial and political crisis, and the...

The last six or seven years has been a challenging economic environment for most of the country. The financial crisis in 2008-2009 created an enormous amount of damage not only in monetary terms, but...