Market Overview

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe...

Many of us are trained to look for tops and bottoms and game the markets accordingly. For the most part, this is the way our brains work Yet, intuitively speaking that is just the wrong tapproach....

Corn futures rallied nicely off of the lows made last week at 3.67 in the May contract, making a high of 3.97 as of this writing. We thought the downside was overdone and we don’t see a reason...

I have some bad news for you. Someone, somewhere has a portfolio that is doing better than yours is. It might be Warren Buffett or your neighbor or your worst enemy (the latter two are often the same...

Here we are in THE Great Bull Market (although it is becoming a rough ride recently) which has for months been oblivious to an obvious slowing of the USA economy. The purported forward looking markets...

Market movers ahead The US employment report is released on Good Friday. Following a run of months with very strong job gains we expect the pace of labour market improvement to moderate but remain...

We continue to monitor Russia -- one of the two catalysts that could disrupt Europe’s happy new QE party (the other, of course, is Greece and its continued teetering on the edge of a Euro...

When Fed Chair Janet Yellen commented last July about biotechs whose valuations were “substantially stretched,” we took it with a grain of salt. High valuations in the space are normal,...

We read carefully the comments by Fed vice-chairman Fischer -- the eminent, wise, and experienced central banker. Mr. Fischer believes that U.S. rates will probably rise late in late 2015. Rates will...

Our expectation for non-farm payroll for March is 230,000, which is slightly below consensus. This is a somewhat weaker pace of job growth than over the previous six months, but if sustained in coming...

-- VIX challenged its February high at 17.19 after making a new Master Cycle low last week.Although it broke above weekly Short-term support/resistance at 15.54 and intermediate-term resistance at...

It's time to take another look at the recent developments in China's equity markets as major indices hover near the highs we haven't seen since 2008. Source: Investing.com With property markets in...

Echoing statements I have made many times, PIMCO says the single currency area must become a "United States of Europe" in order to secure its future. Please consider Eurozone can't survive in current...

Covered call writing and put-selling calculations must be accurate and preferably understood by option-sellers. I created the Ellman Calculators to facilitate the authentic computations we depend on....