Market Overview

U.S. markets were slightly lower and the S&P finishing virtually flat. Investors were only slightly happy with a strong service sector report, but the private ADP jobs report missed the...

Markets are cautiously steady as focus turns to one of the key event rates of the week, the ECB's rate decision. It's been generally agreed that the Eurozone is facing deflation risk as January CPI...

Ahead of the ECB meeting, there are a several developments to note. In terms of price action in the foreign exchange market, the Australian dollar has been lifted by constructive economic data, which...

Thursday's a busy day for economic and monetary policy news. The main event: the European Central Bank’s interest rate announcement that’s scheduled for 12:45 GMT, along with the press...

It very much sounds like we are about to have the making of the UK economy’s first squeal directed by nobody else than Threadneedle Street, Forward Guidance Part 2.Goodbye to Forward Guidance...

Asian Session The euro eased lower ahead of key event risk as investors positioned for the European Central Bank's policy review due on Thursday. The EUR/USD held steady for most of the Asian session...

The day started well but broke down soon as my head touched the pillow. While the Dollar did begin to make gains against the Europeans it didn’t last long. In fact, the Europeans ended up being...

A recent CNBC article by Jeff Cox discussed the current market rout, stating: "As hard as policymakers have sought to assure markets that they stand at the ready when conditions weaken, lack of a...

One of the reasons that US equities have been weak recently is that investors have grown concerned about the health of emerging markets.  The PMI surveys that were released this week aren’t...

Monday’s ISM wipeout pushed the stock market into deeply oversold territory as fear levels in the market began to surge. The ISM Manufacturing PMI came in at 51.3 versus the estimated 56.0...

We’ve all seen the numbers. High-income earners are subject to higher marginal rates these days: 39.6% on incomes over $400,000 for single taxpayers and $450,000 on couples filing jointly on...

Eurozone’s Consumer Price Index dipped to a 0.7% year on year pace this January, which was significantly below 0.9% that was expected.Traders and economists are now looking towards the policy...

Note from dshort:Here is a revised update. In an update I posted earlier today, I used a Total Market Full Cap version of the Wilshire 5000 in the second chart below. I've now replaced it with the...

STOCKS: The world economy is healing. However, there remains clear headwinds to the continuation of this healing, such as the emerging market risk-reassessment. Quite clearly, risk is being mispriced...