Market Overview

Forex News and EventsLater today, the Fed will release the minutes of its June 16-17 FOMC meeting. At the June 17 press conference, a dovish Yellen stated that the Committee needs to see further...

Market BriefSurprisingly, no deal has been reached between Greece and euro zone officials yet as Alexis Tsipras’ government didn’t have the time to submit a written proposal yesterday....

Daily BriefingCurrencies EUR/USD: The pair is trading near support zone of 1.096-1.094 on a 30 minute time frame. The next resistance is at 1.1288 and the support is at 1.0885. USD/JPY: The pair is...

Investors remain off balance. The Greek financial crisis, and the future of the irrevocable monetary union will take a few more days to play out. The Chinese stock market's dramatic fall after an...

Market Drivers July 08, 2015Greece has 5 day deadline to avoid bankruptcyChinese markets wreak havoc on risk FXNikkei -3.52% Europe 0.68%Oil $52/bblGold $1152/oz.Europe and Asia:JPY Eco Watchers 51...

Quantitative Financial Risk Management: Theory and Practice, edited by Constantin Zopounidis and Emilios Galariotis (Wiley, 2015) is a collection of 15 papers, written primarily by academics. The...

Market Commentary Equities remain in the spotlight as China fears continue to roil markets; Europe down hard; major indices pressing the often watched 200 day moving averages; commodity collapse...

Is it a banana? In the 19th century, downturns were called “depressions.” However, the term got a bad name in the 1930s, and “recession” was coined. Alfred Kahn, one of...

Asian indices tumbled sharply today following the stock market rout in China. At the time of writing, the China Shanghai composite is down -3.8%, after losing nearly -5% earlier in the day, proving...

DOW + 93 = 17,776SPX + 12 = 2081NAS + 5 = 499710 YR YLD – .05 = 2.23%OIL + .14 = 52.67GOLD – 15.50 = 1155.30SILV – .70 = 15.15These are interesting times. There is the situation in...

The votes are in and it is a firm “No” to future austerity. More than 60% of the Greek populace want it to end. Is the sky falling? Did Greece suddenly exit into a black hole of debt on...

Talking Points: US Dollar Accelerating Higher en Route to June Swing High S&P 500 Rebuilding Downward Momentum After Correction Gold Drops to Four-Month Low, Crude Oil Digesting Losses US...

Stocks markets in Europe and Asia continued to decline yesterday and today while Wall-Street shares rose. Eurozone officials have provided Greece with a new deadline for offering a new...

$1.4 trillion of Chinese stocks have stopped trading. Greece is finally imploding. The US trade deficit is widening on falling exports.Copper just fell back to 2009 levels. And safe-haven capital...