Market Overview

The Australian dollar is sharply lower today after the Russian central bank drastically lifted interest rates in order to starve of a further collapse of the rouble reviving fears of their last...

Everyone is asking: When Will This Bear Market Bottom Out? Economic news alerts cannot be printed quickly enough, as the markets continue to tumble in an unprecedented fashion. From Bloomberg...

Do you still believe in the Santa Claus rally? If so, then this will be your week to go long the market. Investors will be looking to finish up their year-end business this week. Final tax losses...

The 8th largest economy on the entire planet is in a state of turmoil right now. The shocking collapse of the price of oil has hit a lot of countries really hard, but very few nations are as dependent...

Though the housing market has recovered dramatically from the trough year of 2009, it is still below historical levels, held back by stringent mortgage underwriting and low levels of consumer...

The Danish DMO plans issuance of DKK75bn in domestic bonds, DKK30bn in treasury bills and consequently a draw of DKK30bn on the government's deposits to meet the DKK135bn total domestic financing need...

Vienna Short-Term GreedRemember several weeks ago when Crude Oil was still trading around $75 a barrel, and OPEC was deciding upon a Production cut and Russia and Mexico went to Vienna and a deal was...

Todd Newman and Anthony Chiasson have won an appeal from their convictions of insider trading. The big outstanding question for alpha seekers is whether this decision will have a tempering effect on...

Many ordinary Russians are standing in line at local banks trying to withdraw their savings in dollars. The value of the ruble has been cut in half since the beginning of the year, with the decline...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s gamble to call a snap election was successful, as the voting over the weekend assured that Abe will have another four years to complete his efforts to revive...

The Federal Reserve is wrapping up its final policy meeting of 2014, an event that could prove a defining moment for 2015, specifically for the USD. The FOMC wraps up its two-day meeting on Wednesday,...

After months of consistent predictions by the mainstream media that markets would only march higher, airtime is now dominated by one simple question: "How big will this correction be?"That is the...

Two SectorsAs we approach 2015, two standout sectors remain overweight in our US ETF (exchange-traded fund) portfolios. They are the Utilities and the Transportation sectors. Both sectors are largely...

Daily BriefingCurrencies EUR/USD: The pair is trading above its upward trend line on a 30 minute time frame. The next support is at 1.2238 and the next resistance is at 1.2607. USD/JPY: The pair is...