Market Overview

Stocks sagged on Monday as the annual “Santa Claus rally” season came to an end last week.  As Stock Trader’s Almanac points out, “Santa Claus tends to come to Wall Street...

How often do you hear a trader, investor or the media talk about volume? I would wager that you hear about this topic pretty often. As you may know, volume is the number of shares or contracts traded...

As 2014 commences, the already modest pace of the recovery in the Eurozone will likely be weighed down by the fragmented and undercapitalized banking sector. The accelerating decline in bank lending...

U.S Trade balance data showed an improving economyIn what could be perceived as a massive boost to bullish market participants, yesterday’s U.S trade balance data showed an improving economy,...

STOCKS: The world economy is has begun to heal if we look at the PMI figures across the world. However, there remain clear headwinds to the continuation of this healing, like speed-limiting higher...

Improving US trade feeds into improving US growthThe US trade data usually isn’t market affecting, and indeed yesterday’s US trade data for November didn’t have an immediate impact...

Bitcoin’s (BTC/USD) uptrend stepped off the gas this week, losing $200 in a couple of days. This is how we could have predicted the pullback, like I did 3 days ago. We need to take a look at...

Market movers today In the euro area we expect retail sales to increase 0.6% m/m in November helped by German retail sales. This is also suggested by survey indicators, which point to higher euro...

Market Snapshot: US economic growth was given an extra boost as the trade deficit gave its lowest reading in 4 years, driven by America's domestic energy revolution. As a result Morgan Stanley, (MS)...

Everybody likes a credit boom. They all believe they have more money. This is the dirty little secret of modern central banking. It only works by stealth and fraud – silently debauching the...

A weak inflation number in yesterday’s December report for the EU will sharpen attention on today’s Eurozone updates for retail sales and unemployment. Another round of discouraging data...

Here and there a book becomes canonical. It is extolled as a “bible,” the standard work in its field. Such is the case with Martin Pring’s hefty, 800-page Technical Analysis...

Currencies The euro (EUR) dropped down to 1.3596 and lost almost 60 pips against the US dollar (USD), after worse than expected inflation data came out from Eurozone. The single currency remains on a...

U.S. markets broke losing streaks as the rose higher overnight. Investors are looking, optimistically, towards the jobs report due out on Friday. Also corporate fourth quarter earnings helped...