Market Overview

Mergers and acquisitions activity has been flat in the chemicals industry.A new report from global consultancy A.T. Kearney suggests that in large part this is a piece of unintended fall-out from the...

We continue to identify four main macro issues shaping the investment climate: The tapering anticipation in the US; the stabilization of the Chinese economy; a cyclical recovery in Europe; and the...

Market movers ahead With a bit of luck, new data should confirm that the recession in the eurozone ended in Q2 13.US retail sales, housing market data and consumer confidence should point to...

So far, 2013 has brought fairly good news for the developed economies of the world. Japan is seeing a fairly sharp recovery after the unprecedented monetary policy regime change, the US economy...

It should be a quiet day, with focus largely shifting to next week’s data from Europe and the US. The day will therefore be dominated by Chinese data on the real economy in July. After the shock...

Living in Southern California is extraordinary, but just like anything else, there are always tradeoffs, including traffic. Living in the United States is extraordinary too, but one of the detrimental...

This is an overview of various charts that I am hoping will provide insight into the inflation/deflation debate. The interpretation of these charts should provide another gauge of inflation, and will...

France disappointed Friday with an unexpected and sharp decline in industrial output. The strength of the German report earlier last week (2.8% rise in June industrial output), coupled with the...

Since the Jobs Report at the beginning of the month, pundits have been spewing over the inordinate employment gains of part-time workers – robbing the economy of the benefits of full-time...

There, I got your attention. I find that when I start an article with the word “demographics,” eyes glaze over. But when I start the same article with “sex,” the reader snaps...

After a week of solid data, the eurozone banking union is coming back into focus as an end to the longest ever recession comes into view. The common currency has been strong above $1.33 as the...

This morning, a kind Sloper emailed me a link that Dutch has been kind enough (there’s a lot of kindness on Slope…….) to post in the comments section. I appreciate this, because I...

Asian markets were mostly on the rise today as the slew of data coming out of the world’s second largest economy, China, impresses and calmed investor’s nerves. Inflation steadied in China...