Market Overview

Growth recovery to support CEE currencies, CZK keeps the cap Hungarian real GDP grew by 3.5% y/y in Q1 14 - well above the consensus forecast of 2.7% y/y. In Hungary right now, there are some nice...

I was right in suggesting the JPY pairs would provide the better vehicles yesterday. Their moves developed extremely well and remain very much in line with expectations and are beginning to home in on...

The producer price index showed a meaningful jump in inflation for the second month in a row in April.  PPI rose by 2.1% over the previous year. That’s the highest rate of increase since...

I haven't written much about China lately, but I continue to get questions. So I thought that it was time to summarize my big picture thoughts on China here.Riding a motorcycle at 100mph without a...

A widely-held maxim tells us that money tends to flow from where it is treated badly to where it is treated well. This trend has taken center stage in the ongoing battle between U.S. states to attract...

At his monthly press conference last week, Mario Draghi, President of the European Central Bank (ECB), stated that while the ECB did not change its benchmark interest rates, “the governing...

I'm so short I could jump off a dime and I am merely adding to positions. The latest of the emerging markets ETF -- symbol (ARCA:EEM) -- is approaching a gap-fill as well as the underside of a...

Ever wonder how to make some good monies even when the market is choppy/moving sideways? One month ago today I shared with Premium members that a key opportunity looked to be taking place at...

As we fast approach the summer months, one point about 2014 is abundantly clear: This is a very different kind of market than 2013. Investors have become far more cautious and are giving far more...

Is the top 10% up to the task of borrowing and blowing enough money to prop up a debt and bubble-dependent economy? Since the entire economy depends on consumption for its "growth," and discretionary...

ASIA ROUNDUP:AUD saw the most action against the crosses throughout Asia to see a bullish continuation on AUD/USD and strengthen the argument for a run up to 0.945 The Greenback suffered the...

CurrenciesEUR/USD: The pair is trading in a downward channel on a 60 minute frame. The next support is at 1.3670 and the next resistance is at 1.3823. USD/JPY: The pair has broken its upward trend...

The unstoppable US markets made another record high yesterday and this time the S&P 500 was also able to move above the 1900 level for a brief moment. The break of this level was much of a...

After the release of country figures, it came with not surprise that industrial output fell in the eurozone in March. On a monthly basis, output contracted by 0.3%, more than offsetting the gain...