Market Overview

The jobs reports we were all waiting on are out and many express disappointment. How typical! There is always some one who will be more pessimistic than the rest and low and behold they get media...

860 gold medals have been won at the Winter Olympics. 107 were won by Norway. The Sochi gold medals are worth 20% less than the record $708 value of the London Olympic gold medals. This is due to the...

Let's take a close look at today's employment report numbers on Full and Part-Time Employment. Buried near the bottom of Table A-9 of the government's Employment Situation Summary are the numbers for...

US Dollar Index – (-0.10%)• The financial markets on Friday concentrated hard on the headline non-farm payrolls number for January and revision for December, with the outcome seeing more...

Canada's labor force survey headline looked solid on Friday, however, on drilling down it was weak in the details. Canada added more jobs than expected last month, fueled by full-time hires; it was...

A little more than a week ago I noted an opportunity in the Germany market in DAX: An Opportunity For Investors. The set up ended up failing so I took my stop loss and moved on. But I remain...

European Central Bank President Mario Draghi's press conference earlier today reiterated a few major themes we have heard over and over again recently. Euro zone inflation remained low, credit growth...

Payroll day today. Yesterday’s ECB meeting produced no change in policy stance. With rates so close to zero already, the ECB has little room for manoeuver and since the economic news has...

The markets are set to face what traders have waited for- the US jobs report, which could certainly make or break the markets. It is the most important data not only for the US equity markets, but...

The financial markets, in particularly the ones of Argentina and Turkey, are squeaking and creaking on all sides. The Argentinian government had to give up its support for the peso because dollar...

In Europe, Moody’s credit rating of Finland will be published after markets close. The current rating is AAA, with a stable outlook. After Netherlands lost its AAA in November and the European...

Why use lots of words when pictures will suffice?That’s my thinking each Friday when I select a handful of graphics to put important economic and investing news into perspective for you. This...

EUR/USD Today’s support: - 1.3567 and 1.3534(main), where correction is possible. Break would give 1.3500, where correction also may be. Then follows 1.3485. Break of the latter would result...

The US employment data tends to be among the most important economic reports in a given month. After the dismal December jobs report, there is much anticipation for the January reading. Yet the risk...