Market Overview

By reviewing and comparing market % performance we can gain a quick and convenient insight into where money is flowing to (and from) to help us refine our trading watchlist for the days or weeks...

For those of you accustomed to seeing my column on Saturday mornings, my apologies – a weekend of college revisits began with a 4AM wakeup on Saturday and didn’t finish until late Sunday...

This past week saw the biggest spread so far this year in the weekly performance of the top and bottom indexes on my watch list. The Shanghai Composite turned in the best gain for the week, up 3.48%...

The Twittersphere couldn’t get enough of the news last week that hedge fund legend Paul Tudor Jones was shutting down one of his eponymous funds, the Tudor Tensor Fund (try saying Tudor Tensor...

Treasuries rallied sharply last week, mostly on the back of the sell-off in equities as well as in response to the Fed's seeming backpedaling on the timing of rate hikes. While the equity market...

This is a common question voiced by concerned clients in the last few days. There is good reason for it, given that a highly volatile correction is underway. Recognize that the correction is more...

The news out of China was mostly bad last week. On Wednesday, we learned that the country’s exports, on a seasonally adjusted basis, rose 11.0% m/m during March, recovering less than half of...

The economic data due out in what for many will be a holiday-shortened week is unlikely to change the macro-economic picture: • Even though the US economy is strengthening after a dismal first...

The VIX ramped above weekly mid-Cycle resistance and challenged its February high before closing beneath it. This is the start of the run to the top of the chart that may occur over the next 3-4...

Five out of the last six trading days have seen the Dow Jones Industrial Average rise or fall by more than 100 points. This type of market volatility certainly can be unsettling to investors. In...

We now expect Danmarks Nationalbank to remain on hold the coming year. This will leave the rate on certificates of deposits at the current -0.10% in 12M. We forecast the EUR/DKK at 7.47, 7.46 and...

The following table lists the key economic data and other events that came out during the week of April 7th through April 11th, with release times displayed for the GMT time zone.The list also...

The University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment preliminary number for April came in at 82.6, a jump from the 80.0 March final. This is the highest reading since the 85.1 interim high set in July of...

Today's release of the March Producer Price Index (PPI) for Final Demand rose 0.5% month-over-month seasonally adjusted for Headline inflation. Today's data point was higher than the 0.1%...