Market Overview

“The economy is showing signs of life,” advises David Malpass in today's Wall Street Journal. "The U.S. economy may finally be in a position to accelerate above the so-called new...

This is the second of a two-part white paper covering AIFMD and what fund managers should be doing to comply. The first part of this white paper examined many of the main areas fund managers should...

The widely followed Markit PMI report of China's manufacturing for July was disappointing, coming in at an 11 months low. Growth across developing economies has become a problem, and China is no...

The US Dollar continues to lose ground against most currencies. The DXY-index, a Dollar weighed towards a basket of six major currencies, fell also on Tuesday from Monday’s low on 82.325. The...

EUR/USD Today’s support: - 1.3177, 1.3163 and 1.3135(main), where correction is possible. Break would give 1.3120, where correction also may be. Then follows 1.3083. Break of the latter would...

Hedge funds have been snapping up U.S. government debt, with new data showing large speculators have been “aggressively” buying 10 year Treasurys in the last week.According to data from...

China’s economy may be facing a period of instability and imbalance as it transitions from high-speed growth, a state researcher said.“Growth inertia should not be underestimated, as new...

The votes have been counted. Japan’s Liberal Democrats—the party of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe—won a landslide victory over the weekend, securing control of both houses of...

The words of central bankers have for a very long time been poured over by those believing their utterances to have mystic qualities, but we now live in an era where their fallibility is coming into...

We're looking at a dull summer day to this point with some interesting moves in the Grains. There is considerable outperformance seen in the Beans (relative to Corn). If we get some rain in early...

Income investors had a little scare in May and June. Bond prices took a tumble and dragged down assets that have come to be viewed as bond substitutes -- including popular dividend-paying stocks, MLPs...

While the media and politicians have been focused on large commercial banks and their activities, it is often the smaller US banks that continue to struggle with capitalization and stressed/distressed...

As a resident of the Fifth District, this is a regional manufacturing index I pay close attention to. The Fifth District includes Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas, the District of Columbia and most...