Market Overview

U.S. manufacturing data released this week, yesterday, showed it slowed at a slower pace in November. However hiring hit a 2 ½ year high. Also volume of new orders increased sharply to a level...

Here is a summary of the four market valuation indicators I update during the first days of the month. The four indicators are: ● The Crestmont Research P/E Ratio (more) ● The cyclical...

On Monday the National Association of Realtors (NAR) released its Pending Home Sales Index report for November. This is a pretty good proxy for the volume of activity in the housing market because it...

The last time housing market sentiment and precious metals prices lined up this way, we were on the cusp of massive volatility and collapse. Housing had reached the end of its long great credit driven...

Quick take: Based on data extrapolations through the end of December, the Q Ratio is 56% above its arithmetic mean and 67% above its geometric mean. If we use the calculation method of Nobel Laureate...

Quick take: Based on the December S&P 500 average of daily closes, the Crestmont P/E is now 80% above its arithmetic mean, up from 79% above mean the previous month and 73% the month before that....

Today the Institute for Supply Management published its December Manufacturing Report. The latest headline PMI at 57.0 percent is a slight decline from 57.3 percent last month, which was the best...

The new year’s off to an encouraging start with economic news. Today’s updates on jobless claims and the ISM Manufacturing Index suggest that moderate growth was still bubbling in the...

Here is a new update of a popular market valuation method using the most recent Standard & Poor's "as reported" earnings and earnings estimates and the index monthly averages of daily closes for...

Martin Scorsese certainly knows how to make movies and Leonardo DiCaprio sure can act. The talents of both the director and the lead actor in The Wolf of Wall Street will attract many people to the...

Moore's Law, named after Gordon Moore, a co-founder of Intel, who articulated it in the mid-1960s, holds that the number of microchip transistors that can be etched into a given surface would double...

The euro started off 2014 on a bright note trading steadily at $1.3748 at 6:30 GMT on Thursday morning. The common currency has been lifted by eurozone policymakers' commitment to stabilizing the...

AM Analysis: “Global equities soar by $9.6 trillion in 2013” – Max Cohen After its worst performance in more than 30 years, gold began 2014 on a stronger note recouping some 1.5%...

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 potentially higher...