Market Overview

Canada’s dollar had its worst start to a year since at least 1972 amid speculation the central bank may favor cutting interest rates, and as a selloff in emerging markets sent investors to the...

Markets continued to weaken most of the week and we were waiting for a nice bounce all week that finally came Thursday and there were some very great day-trading chances as a result.It’s not a...

Recent price action in the stock market has many traders on edge. With the market closing below our key support trend line last week, the market has now technically started a down trend.While trend...

The investment climate has proven extremely difficult for investors to navigate. Fed tapering and better world growth was to lead to higher interest rates. Yet interest rates for the developed world...

There was a lot to digest this week, but at least no surprise came from the Fed that announced another USD 10 bn decrease in monthly security purchases. US bond markets are weathering quite well the...

On the whole, the survey and economic data released this week tend to support our scenario of a gradual improvement in the eurozone’s economic situation. After last week’s PMI indexes,...

■ Amid the European patchwork of definitions and metrics for non-performing loans, the EBA proposes harmonisation to serve as the basis of the asset review.■ Relative to the new standard,...

Headlines Emerging market turbulence continues adding to the gloom. DONG Energy equity sale and capital injection approved. Good start to 2014 with healthy levels of new issue volumes. Market...

■ In January inflation decreased to 0.7%, matching the cyclical low of October 2013. The decrease was largely due to energy prices inflation, which fell by more than 1% y/y, after being stable...

Abiomed Inc. (ABMD) posted an increase in net earnings to $4.4 million or 11 cents per share for the third quarter of fiscal 2014 from $2.7 million or 7 cents per share in the comparable quarter of...

After another bad week in U.S. equities and a worse week in emerging markets, some are starting to question the strength of the global economy. Can the slow and prolonged recovery be derailed by...

This morning I posted my latest Big Four update, which included today's release of the December data for Real Personal Income Less Transfer Payments. Now let's take a closer look at a rather different...

The University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment final number for January came in at 81.2, an increase from the 80.4 preliminary report, but below the December final of 82.5. Today's was slightly above...

On the outskirts of Ulaanbaatar, a nomadic family of herders is sitting outside their ger (the family tent commonly called a  ”yurt” in the West)  watching Bloomberg TV…on...