Market Overview

The stock market may not have done much last week in terms of week-to-week price movement, but it was an interesting time nonetheless. Fed chair Janet Yellen’s testimony before Congress was...

The first business day of March roars like a lion in terms of data releases. Keeping on top of all the fresh numbers will be a challenge today. The data deluge includes several key Eurozone updates:...

Last week I wrote an article for the Illinois Policy Institute on the hugely unfunded and deteriorating nature of numerous Illinois' pension systems. I will post the article on Monday. My article was...

This entire notion that you can take bad assets from a bank and put them in a "bad bank" to make everything well, is ridiculous. Today we see yet another failure of the construct. Reuters reports...

As Australia's mining boom turns to bust, Towns are Dying the Death of a Thousand Cuts as Miners Leave in Droves.Locals say the main street of Dalby resembles a ghost town these days – a sad...

Stocks rallied during Janet Yellen’s testimony on February 24. Yet two of the three major indices gave up some of their gains the next day. Chicago Bridge & Iron Company NV (NYSE:CBI)) kept...

OvernightUS stocks posted gains of 5% or more in February, despite closing modestly lower on the last trading day of the month on Friday amid lacklustre data and oil gains. US Stocks performed much...

Live from the Asia-Pacific! As we kick of the last month of the first quarter, the beginning of the end.A positive, insightful, profitable and growth-filled week to you all. The epic piece in last...

Traditional stock pickers live in a world that is analogous to Facebook (NASDAQ:FB). The average mutual fund manager spends their days buying stocks they “like”. For most, however, there...

Five of the eight indexes on my world market watch list posted weekly gains, with Germany's DAX as the top performer, up 3.18%. Japan's Nikkei and France's CAC 40 were in a near dead heat for second...

Much of what I write about is food for thought. I take opposing positions on subjects when I agree generally on what was said - as want readers to understand there are exceptions or buts or legitimate...

The question is whether the economic fundamentals in the Eurozone are improving enough to boost earnings. Investors seem to think so, and we are coming around to the same opinion. Let’s review...

As regular readers of the site will know, I plot a number of performance metrics to keep me on track. These can provide clues as to the robustness of the system or alert me to a possible change or...

Economists are projecting no change to a slight decline for today's January update on personal consumption expenditures (PCE) vs. December. The consensus forecast via Econoday.com, for instance, is...