Market Overview

Let's take a look at the recent developments in the US energy markets and the seemingly contradictory reaction by equity investors. First of all, while we continue to see significant declines in the...

The economic calendar includes much more housing data than we normally see in a single week. With Fed Chair Yellen’s Congressional testimony and the GDP revisions also on tap, I expect many...

The famous bond king, Bill Gross, once told a very interesting story about his early experience as a lender (creditor). He was visiting a company in San Francisco and noted the contemporary decor and...

Employment is an important topic for Washington and Wall Street. Citizens who are fully employed are more likely to vote for the political party currently in power and continue making payments on...

Of all the obstacles to economic growth, uncertainty is undoubtedly the most hindering. Uncertainty about policy, prices, armed conflict, even weather; the more uncertainty that exists in an economic...

During a 2011 congressional banking subcommittee hearing, Texas congressman Ron Paul asked Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke if gold is money. “No,” replied Bernanke, “It’s...

Favorable terms of trade and eager investment in manufacturing and real estate has propelled Chinese growth in recent years. Now, a high debt burden from overinvestment, rising manufacturing costs,...

In an article by Dave Hodges of the Common Sense Show, he states that the BRIC nations are strategizing under the correct premise that they are dependent on currencies which had no future. The BRICS...

Staying Out of One’s Own Way As we progress into 2015 many investors are in the process of tallying up their winners and losers and deciding on this year’s allocations. This can be a...

I’ve been warning that the greatest threat to the global economy is the bursting of China’s real estate bubble. It’s the largest and most extreme in the world. Prices for Shanghai...

ES Formed a Triangle (Pink) at End of Day ES ended the week forming a triangle. If it breaks out downwards, that triangle would be the top of a head and shoulders top at the navy blue megaphone top....

This past week has been a virtual tennis match watching the evolution of the Greek bailout negotiations. No Deal, Deal, No Deal, Deal.However, despite the fallout that would likely come from a Greek...

Today's new release of the publicly available data from the Economic Cycle Research Institute (ECRI) puts its Weekly Leading Index (WLI) at 130.3, up slightly from 130.0 the previous week. The WLI...

Early this morning we saw the futures pulling down as the Nasdaq in particular was very overbought on its short-term sixty-minute chart. Not just overbought but ugly overbought. Thankfully, we saw a...