Market Overview

Market movers today There's a number of tier-2 data on tap today. UK GDP for Q4 is expected to rise 0.6% q/q in line with consensus following an 0.7% q/q rise in Q3. It leaves the annual rise at...

The Australian dollar is sitting tight today gearing up for a round of important news due out this week. At 6.28pm (AEDT) the Aussie dollar was trading at US79.22¢ virtually unchanged from...

With the United Kingdom releasing GDP numbers for both quarter over quarter and year-over-year today, we anticipate a lot of the action to be found in the GBP/USD pair, as well as the FTSE. That being...

Another top-notch earnings report for Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) came out after the bell Monday. The world's largest software firm brought in 71 cents per share on revenues of $26.5 billion, topping the...

I have used the the analogy, 'The (European) parents fight and the kids hear everything' before to describe Europe and it remains true again:The parents fight and the kids hear everything. The...

Growth remained firm at the end of 2014 but falling energy prices will impact growth and the Canadian dollar in the months to come.GROWTH EXPECTATIONS: The latest GDP released late December showed...

This chart series features an overlay of the Four Bad Bears in U.S. history since the market peak in 1929. They are:The Crash of 1929, which eventually ushered in the Great Depression, The Oil Embargo...

Summary: The Sentier Research monthly median household income data series is now available for December. The nominal median household income was up $537 month-over-month and $2,072 year-over-year....

Everyone’s been down on the global economic outlook. Both the IMF and World Bank have lowered their global growth forecasts for 2015 and 2016. There has been quite a bit of skepticism about the...

I didn’t enjoy doing yesterday’s analysis. There were too many points to measure, over too long a period and not enough time to fully absorb the alternative possibilities. Having completed...

Presidential aspirants in both parties are talking about saving the middle class. But the middle class can’t be saved unless Wall Street is tamed. The Street’s excesses pose a continuing...

Investors were caught by surpriseon Wednesday when the Bank of Canada announced that it was lowering its key interest rate. This weighed heavily on the Canadian dollar, which fell by close to 4% over...

This Great Graphic was composed on Bloomberg. It shows two time series. The headline CPI is the white line. It has gone negative and when the flash estimate for January is released at the end of the...

GoldFor over two years now I have consistently recommended excluding gold and gold-related holdings from your portfolio. This advice has paid out extremely well over that time by reducing portfolio...