Market Overview

How to Beat the Market Makers at Their Own Game: Uncovering the Mysteries of Day Trading (Wiley, 2014) is not the most compelling advertisement for Cyber Trading University, of which the author,...

Since 2008 the balance sheet of the Swiss National Bank is 280%, this is the equivalent of 60% of Swiss GDP. So did most other central banks, too. But there is one big difference: The risk for the SNB...

Chinese search engine Qihoo 360 released its third quarter earnings on Monday evening, which beat both internal and analysts’ expectations. There was a favourable reaction from Wall Street to...

European markets are set to open higher after a stellar GDP print which we have seen for the U.S. economy yesterday. Investors are still stunned when they see that the final number was well above the...

Personal income growth likely accelerated to a 0.5% rise in October, and personal spending likely rebounded 0.3%. We look for a stronger increase in October personal income based on accelerations in...

Talking Points: US Dollar and Yields Slide Despite Improved US Data Euro Steady Despite OECD’s Labeling Region a Global Threat Yen Crosses Underpricing Volatility Risk Dollar and...

Some journalists, like Ambrose Evans-Pritchard of the U.K.’s Telegraph and Michael Casey of the Wall Street Journal, have already claimed this to be a shot in the currency wars. Casey focuses...

Thursday’s another busy day of economic releases, including revised third-quarter GDP data for the UK. Several key US reports are also scheduled: new orders for durable goods, initial jobless...

Looking at the Wednesday session, we believe that the United Kingdom releasing its GDP numbers will be the highlight of economic announcements. True, there is a Core Durable Goods Orders number coming...

This post is part of a series of posts called “Company Notes.” These posts contain quotes and exhibits from earnings calls, conference presentations, analyst days and SEC...

Despite large upward revision in US GDP growth, the risk sentiment retreated overnight as the Conference Board Consumer Sentiment Index came in much lower than consensus.USD strengthened against...

Factory farming is a brutal endeavor.  In this environment, chickens (and other animals) are given a variety of feeds and chemicals (stimuli) designed to make them grow as big as possible as fast...

If you’re into retail and want a true contrarian play, look no farther than beleaguered chain JC Penney (NYSE:JCP). It’s been beaten to smithereens, presently about 10% of its prior peak...

Well the corrections in the Europeans completed… but then decided to add another corrective pattern on top. This has made things just a bit more complicated, not so much that this is happening...