Market Overview

The Federal Reserve's monetary stimulus program cannot continue forever, Richard Fisher, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas told CNBC on Tuesday."We've changed and impacted the markets...

Today’s inflation report for Britain will receive wide scrutiny as the market reconsiders expectations for the Bank of England’s plans for adjusting monetary policy. Later, we’ll see...

UK CPI, which is one of the important indicators in Bank of England's forward guidance, will be released today and it is expected to decline from the previous level of 2.7% as the big increase in...

Money market rates, swap interest rates and government bond yields are edging slightly higher. Higher interest rates appear to reflect mainly a conscious decision by People's Bank of China (PBoC) to...

As another storm threatens the Philippines after the destruction of Super Typhoon Haiyan, President Benigno Aquino has declared a state of calamity and announced that over $400 million has been set...

On Monday, the stock market of the United States finished the trading session with insignificant growth of the main indexes. There were not any published macroeconomic statistics in the US yesterday....

The latest IMM data covers the week from 29 October to 5 November. Speculative investors scaled back on long EUR, GBP and CHF positions and bought USD in the week ending 5 November. In particular,...

Asian markets, and especially the Nikkei, were higher today on the heels of yet another record close by the Dow Jones overnight. This is also the final day of a key policy meeting in China so we are...

The markets have been extremely quiet the last few days. With the exception of the hard selling that occurred on Thursday it’s been a snooze fest.The reason for this is that no one wants to...

Chart 1: Further breakdown in the yen could lead to higher stock prices:Here are some interesting chart combinations I am following. The first one, seen above, is between the Japanese yen and the...

Note from dshort: This commentary has been revised to include Friday's release of Nonfarm Payrolls and Personal Income data.Official recession calls are the responsibility of the NBER Business Cycle...

Up 0.36% in September and 1.24% YoY Earlier today I posted my latest Big Four update which included Friday's release of the September data for Real Personal Income Less Transfer Payments. Now let's...

Note from dshort: I've updated the accompanying charts with the latest Personal Consumption Expenditures price index from the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The annualized rate of change is calculated...

Here is a look at two key numbers in Friday's monthly employment report for October:Average Hourly Earnings Average Weekly Hours The government has been tracking the data for Production and...