Market Overview

Dividend-Paying Stocks The fourth quarter really couldn’t get here fast enough.  After eight good months in which my favorite investment themes performed even better than I had hoped, we...

The fallout from Bill Gross leaving PIMCO for Janus Capital Group has continued to spread through the financial community and ultimately generated a review from Morningstar of the group's flagship...

Nine months into 2014 and it's time to look at how two popular forms of investment have so far this year and where I think they are headed through year's end.Stocks She Dow Jones Industrial...

The recent announcement by CalPERS, the largest pension fund in the world, that it was exiting entirely from hedge funds has led many to speculation that this heralds the end for hedge funds. However,...

-- VIX closed at the upper trendline of its Ending Diagonal after testing weekly Cycle Top resistance at 18.42. It has also left an inverted Head & Shoulders formation that indicates a...

The US non-farm payrolls report and unemployment rate for September were released Friday morning.Big Boost Prior to the announcement, the consensus was for 215K net new jobs. The actual number came...

Euro area retail sales surprised on the upside in August as they increased 1.2% m/m and 1.9% y/y. Excluding June, the yearly change was the highest since April 2007. The increase reflects an increase...

Market Drivers October 3, 2014 EZ Final Services PMIs are lower UK Services PMI Nikkei .30% Europe .45% Oil $91/bbl Gold $1207/oz. Europe and Asia:CNY Services PMI 54 vs. 54.4EUR Final Services 52.4...

EUR/USDToday’s support: - 1.2632, 1.2600 and 1.2566(main), where correction is possible. Break would give 1.2548, where correction also may be. Then follows 1.2523. Break of the latter would...

Today markets will try to come to grips with yesterday’s European Central Bank meeting. While the knee-jerk reaction was disappointment, market watchers might begin to second-guess the next...

With Friday be nonfarm payroll day, we believe that the markets will focus solely on this particular announcement. However, there are a couple charts that we are paying attention to the moment.The...

Market movers today US non-farm payrolls take centre stage. We expect a rise of 250k, higher than the consensus estimate of 218k. There are two reasons why we continue to look for payroll growth...

The most important event in the EMEA region next week is the rate decision in Poland. We have been saying for a long time that the Polish central bank (NBP) needs to ease monetary policy further in...

Inflation turning higher now. The Swedish National debt Office proposes lower FX exposure and bond premiums together with tax incomes decrease borrowing requirements. Buy longer-dated bonds in ASW...