Market Overview

My World Market Wrap-Up for 2013 can be found here. The following charts and graphs show the trends and gains and losses made in a number of world markets for 2014. They will be shown without...

Focus of the day:"Another secular USD bull rally in the making? USD secular rallies in the past have been spread out over 5-7 years, with gains of 40-70%. Moreover, USD bull/bear cycles have followed...

2015 started with a fresh US dollar rally, as the DXY dollar index jumped nearly a percent on Friday. The dollar strength and its consequences will be a key theme for the economy and markets this...

I enjoyed catching up with the James Altucher Show this morning, and thought I would share some of the program with CEO.ca readers. Altucher’s had a diverse career as an entrepreneur, hedge fund...

The Greek political drama is overshadowing the Russian crisis and oil's price the plunge. A review of old- and new-media coverage suggests that many observers are repeating the same mistake they made...

China is to 2014 as Japan was to 1989 – that is, the global savior of all things financial, including real estate. In the San Francisco Bay Area, skyrocketing home prices (especially for trophy...

Real GDP 3Q 2014 was revised higher than expected. More good news!I prefer to breakdown the components into that attributed to government expenditure & investment vs. that from the private...

Weekly S&P 500 earnings data will come out today, January 2nd, 2015, from Thomson Reuters and Factset. Examining the charts yesterday, the first day of 2015, I happened to look at some of the...

Here is the opening statement from the Department of Labor: In the week ending December 27, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 298,000, an increase of 17,000 from the...

There is only one real story for 2014. FROTH! Unprecedented levels in terms of time. Since February we have been on a sell-signal with regard to the bull-bear spread. Low rates and liquidity from the...

Considering the reality that only the top 5% have benefited from the policies of the past six years, it's difficult to see how the Echo Bubble can continue expanding in 2015.After two years of...

In Monday's update, I noted the following on the S&P 500 chart: "Downside risk may be exceeding upside potential at the present moment." During that session, S&P 500 made a new high by less...

Today's US data will barely cause a ripple Final fixing for the year may be a let-down Oil soft and Greece in the spotlight By Michael O'NeillThe US dollar is ending the year with gains across the...

Happy New Year! What a year it's been, too. We added 2.7M jobs this year and that's good because we also added 2.7M people to our population so, essentially, we didn't lose any ground. As more and...