Market Overview

The July 2013 Consumer Price Index for Urban Consumers (CPI-U) released yesterday puts the June year-over-year inflation rate at 1.75%, dramatically below the 3.91% average since the end of the Second...

This Great Graphic was posted on the Financial Times and it comes from Bank of America. It is based on the banks' survey of some 238 investors with $643 bln under management. The survey was conducted...

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said the nation will seek to keep economic growth, employment and inflation within limits, avoiding “wide fluctuations,” without elaborating on what the...

The much-anticipated upper house elections in Japan on Sunday will be pivotal to shaping the fate of the country’s currency, which has experienced wild swings in recent months, analysts told...

Australia has been building more new homes, offices and shopping centres than previously thought, according to revised data from the government, a promising sign that a key area of the economy is on...

China’s holdings of U.S. Treasuries (BUSY) rose to a record in May even as net selling by private foreign investors in notes and bonds reached an all-time high, government data showed.China...

I understand that Monday was the lowest volume day of the year on ES, and in these low volume doldrums ES tends to inch upwards as it has been doing since Thursday morning. SPX closed almost five...

In our business, one must be very careful of confirmation bias of course (as well as all of the other assorted biases that can adversely affect one’s decision-making processes). And so I want to...

Here is a table showing the annualized change in Headline and Core CPI, not seasonally adjusted, for each of the past five months. I've also included each of the eight components of Headline CPI and a...

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is set to speak in each of the next two days in his semi-annual Congressional testimony. He will spend Wednesday speaking in front of the House Financial Services...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics released the latest CPI data this morning. Year-over-year unadjusted Headline CPI came in at 1.75%, which the BLS rounds to 1.8%, up from 1.36% last month (rounded to...

The euro climbed toward $1.31 on Tuesday morning as markets awaited Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's testimony before congress about the central bank's views on the American economy.Following...

In June, consumer prices decreased by 0.2% over the month, but CPI inflation rose to 2.9%. It may remain high in the coming months and thus exceed the central bank’s 2% target for price...