Market Overview

European markets are trading higher after the concerns were eased off amid traders about the health of the emerging markets. The central bank of Turkey surprised the markets last night by doubling the...

Yesterday, the major US indices showed positive dynamics and finished the trading session with an increase for the first time in the last few sessions. Published statistical data on the index of...

Vineer Bhansali’s Tail Risk Hedging: Creating Robust Portfolios for Volatile Markets (McGraw-Hill, 2014) is a book that unfortunately will never reach a mass audience. I say...

The US dollar is little changed against the major currencies, while the emerging market currencies are more mixed, ahead of the FOMC statement later today. Global equities are higher. Core bond...

Inflation outlook Euro inflation is below the ECB’s 2% target and was 0.8% in December while core inflation reached a new historical low of 0.7% (see Flash Comment). In January, weexpect...

The emerging market fears, uncertainty about FED taper plans and a mixed earnings season are just three things creating an uncertain backdrop for the US stock market. This uncertain backdrop is...

Dollar to See a Breakout Regardless of FOMC OutcomeHeading into this week’s top event risk, the Dow Jones FXCM Dollar Index has worked itself into a position that necessitates a breakout. That...

AT&T (T) posted earnings after the bell today.  EPS came in at $0.53 verse the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $0.50, and Revenues of $33.2 billion, slightly beating the Zacks Revenue Estimate of...

“FORECAST”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,...

Here we go again, the annual address by the President of the United States to Congress and fellow citizens. We did not really see any surprises from this year's speech, as Obama said things that were...

Global markets are taking a pause after their three day long rout and are enjoying some gains. Investors in the US liked quarterly corporate profits just before today’s FOMC policy decision and...

Asian markets are generally higher today, following the recovery in US as risk aversion waned. The Turkish central bank more than doubled its interest rates, from 4.5% to 10.0% and triggered a rebound...

EUR/USD Today’s support: - 1.3635 and 1.3614(main), where correction is possible. Break would give 1.3593, where correction also may be. Then follows 1.3565. Break of the latter would result in...

Back in July, I wrote that the key risk to a Fed taper was a rising risk premium and the health of emerging market economies was a key indicator of how the market might re-price risk (see It's the...