Market Overview

The Japanese yen recovered further overnight on risk aversion as global equities were pressured by the selloff in China and Greece. DJIA dived to as low as 17629.57 before paring much loss to close at...

Eric, our senior data analyst from Fx77 indicates that given the global stock market is under the weather and the incoming big event Greek president-election really makes the situation looks worse...

Renowned portfolio manager Jeffrey Gundlach of DoubleLine Funds gave his latest presentation on the state of the market yesterday afternoon. Here are the key takeaways:Economist forecasts are...

Summary: We’re flooded with news from the gross over-capacity of that industry, so finding a full balanced story has become difficult. This post takes something that should be simple — the...

A couple of months ago Roger Ibbotson and I were both presenters at a CFA Conference in Toronto. Ibbotson is a professor of Finance at Yale School of Management and also chairman of Zebra Capital...

The U.S. newspaper publishing industry has long been grappling with sinking advertising revenues, and the global economic turmoil of the last few years only worsened the situation. The downturn in the...

There can be little doubt that data releases rather than experience or intuition are driving the economic conversation. This is perhaps a function of the disconnection that many people feel about an...

Another mixed day was seen yesterday. The cleanest moved were, once again, in EUR/USD and USD/CHF but these were the textbook calls that come following a turn. Elsewhere, the outcomes were not quite...

The official US National Debt is about $18,000,000,000,000, or 57 times the current market price of the US Gold SUPPOSEDLY stored at Fort Knox, the NY Fed, and elsewhere. With so much paper in the...

After climbing the most in a week as a retreat in the dollar and S&P 500 revived demand for the yellow metal, the spot price of Gold has weakened marginally this week.The price of gold jumped more...

Yesterday was especially difficult for stock markets, as the S&P TSX 60 (PARIS:TSX) and the S&P 500 both fell 2.3% and 0.73% respectively. The slide continues this morning, with big drops...

The political crisis in Thailand is a long way from being resolved. In the very short term, political stabilisation and the announced support measures bolstered economic activity. In the medium to...

The US labour market is strengthening, rather rapidly as of recently, and the unemployment rate is getting closer to its equilibrium level. But even so, the Fed still anticipates maintaining current...

Currencies The euro (EUR) rebounded to 1.2340 against the US dollar (USD) yesterday. The Euro zone discussed yesterday, during Eurogroup, in Brussels about the budgets of the countries in the Euro...