Market Overview

Market Movers Focus will again be on Greece and the emergency Eurogroup meeting this afternoon and the EU summit tonight (starts at 19:00 CET). We expect the Greek government and its creditor...

In Sweden , the week ahead contains quite a few sets of interesting data, especially from a Q2 GDP point of view. Retail sales and trade balance (both pertaining to May) are published on Friday at...

The latest IMM data covers the week from 9 June to 16 June 2015 IMM positioning data released Friday show that speculators continue to unwind their bearish EUR positions . While short EUR exposure...

During the Monday session, there is almost nothing to move the markets as far as economic announcements are concerned, so having said that, we look to the charts for technical analysis. We believe...

When systems are broke and broken, collapse is the only way forward.The theme this week is collapse. It's a big, complex topic because there are as many types of collapse as there are systems. Some...

Monday’s a slow day for scheduled releases, although the evolving news about Greece will ensure that there's plenty of drama as the crowd contemplates the rising possibility for a Grexit. As for...

The Index of Leading Economic Indicators rose 0.7% for the second straight month during May and is just shy of the previous record high during May 2006. Previously, I examined the Index of Coincident...

The calendar shows a fair amount of economic data in the coming week, but attention is likely to be focused abroad. After many years (some would say decades) of percolating, the issue of Greece and...

The three-month average of the Chicago Fed National Activity Index (CFNAI) is expected to slip fractionally, falling slightly deeper into negative territory in the May update that’s scheduled...

The Greek drama is approaching the long awaited climax. An emergency heads of state summit will be held on Monday, followed by the regularly scheduled summit later in the week. At the same time, the...

Morning View:“Spartans! Ready your breakfast and eat hearty… For tonight, we dine in hell!”Deadline week has arrived for Greece. Sure, we’ve heard that before but this time...

US Dollar Ready to Turn to Haven or Feed on FOMC Rate View While there may be a lot of volatility for the dollar moving forward, the medium-term fundamentals carry a positive slant whether general...

Talking Points:There is an extraordinary Eurozone Summit on Monday to attempt and clinch a Greece Deal ECB provides an additional €3.3B in emergency liquidity funding today EUR/USD experiences...

Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) has a problem.In 2014, shipping costs grew a whopping 31% to $8.9 billion, outpacing revenue growth for the year. Shipping costs now represent about 10% of Amazon’s total...