Market Overview

In the pursuit for successful investments, investors from all over the globe are in for a very tight competition. In developed countries where growth rates tend to be more stable, it is difficult to...

The Federal Reserve can lower interest rates to zero, or even–as the European Central Bank has done–into negative territory. But it can’t make lenders lend or would-be borrowers...

Since this is Thanksgiving, I want to offer my thanks to you for your readership over the past year. Your comments, suggestions, and debates have been a great source of education and affirmation for...

Monitoring purposes SPX; Sold 9/30/14 at 1972.29= gain .003%; Long SPX on 9/25/14 at 1965.99. Monitoring purposes Gold: Gold ETF GLD long at 173.59 on 9/21/11. Long-Term Trend monitor purposes:...

Propelled mainly by the unexpected key rate cut in China last week and rumours that the People's Bank of China would take further accommodating measures, the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the...

The latest improvement in euro area bank lending should continue and hence headwind to economic activity will fade further . The progress in lending is supported by less supply side restrictions and...

The Australian dollar has fallen through the US85.00 cent mark as strong US data and downbeat comments from the RBA weighed on the currency. At 9.33pm (AEDT) the currency was trading at US84.92 cents...

The capital markets are mostly quiet amid a light news stream, and ahead of three key events in the coming days, with US markets closed tomorrow and light participation expected on Friday. The key...

Yesterday we learned that the Second Estimate for Q3 2014 real GDP came in at 3.9 percent (rounded from 3.89 percent), up from 3.5 percent in the Advance Estimate. Real GDP per capita was lower at 3.1...

Today I'd like to focus on some recent trends in US credit markets:1. We start with US mortgages where originations hit a 13-year low. Tighter underwriting (driven in part by Dodd Frank) and a fairly...

Dragon soarsChinese equities are flying this week as the impact of last week's People's Bank of China rate cut filters through to the market. "There is a lot of action in Chinese equities – it...

The lower iron ore price hurt Fortescue, but BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto edged up The Australian dollar fell on RBA comments and the ore price slide Education company Navitas and all four big banks...

Oil prices slide ahead of OPEC meeting With just a day ahead of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) scheduled meeting in Vienna, impromptu talks between member nations Saudi...

The famous Austrian economist Keith Weiner and implicitly the Wall-street Journal argue that the SNB must keep the euro over 1.20 in order to maintain stability in the Swiss banking system. A rapid...