Market Overview

Here are the Rest of the Top 10: Allstate, Ticker: ALLAllstate (ALL), is breaking consolidation at the 50 day Simple Moving Average (SMA) higher. It has a Relative Strength Index (RSI) that is bullish...

Indian rupee's slide to record lows has been extraordinary. It's been driven by weakness across emerging markets and rising rates in the U.S. As foreign investors exit (accompanied by domestic...

Here are the latest estimates of performance across the various fixed income markets over the past month.High yield corporate bonds have been the best performer in this near-panic unwind. The reasons...

The rally continued for the second week for most of the indexes on my world watchlist after five weeks of predominant losses. The Nikkei continued its massive rebound, chalking up a whopping 4.63%...

As we talked about last week, the “forward 4-quarter” estimate for the SP 500 reached a new record high this week of $116.67. The p.e ratio on the forward estimate is 13.99(x). The...

In last week's prediction for the week ahead I raised the question of how would stocks do in an environment of rising rates? This kept alive my streak of guessing the market theme for the coming week,...

In the upcoming week, second quarter earnings season formally kicks off with the much-anticipated earnings report from Alcoa (AA). Also, JP Morgan Chase (JPM) kicks off financials earnings while Yum!...

Happy, Happy, Happy… As a Hog!Gold has fallen and it can’t get up. The not-so-precious metal dropped 14% in June alone. However, not all commodities are getting clobbered.Take the...

The euro slipped lower on Friday after the European Central Bank's monthly policy meeting indicated that the bank would continue with low interest rates. The common currency traded at $1.2894 at 6:05...

While most Americans were eating hot dogs and celebrating the birth date of the United States, the Bank of England and the European Central Bank took unprecedented steps in launching forward guidance...

America is staring down a fiscal catastrophe, says Porter Stansberry, the outspoken investment analyst who coined the phrase, “the end of America.” Americans are living beyond their means,...

Non-Farm Payrolls rose faster than expected in June as teenagers began to take summer jobs. The unemployment rate remained flat in the month while manufacturing payrolls slumped. Stocks gained as...

Policy was held unchanged from the meeting at the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC). Against usual practise, the MPC published a statement alongside the decision (see here) revealing two policy...

As what has been expected and mentioned in yesterday report, after the anticipated decision of the ECB of keeping the interest rate unchanged at 0.5%, it has given a reference to the recent rising of...