Market Overview

If there is going to be genuine economic growth in mature economies, the leadership will have to come from the U.S. economy. The convulsions taking place in the Japanese capital markets are emblematic...

China’s economy is slowing, but the rich in that country continue to get richer and are growing in number. I was reading the other day that Chinese investors are now some of the biggest...

Financial markets are generally staying in established range. Traders and investors are awaiting the FOMC rate decisions and Bernanke's press conference on Wednesday. The DOW closed 109 pts higher at...

The May update on U.K. consumer price inflation leads the trading day for economic news in Europe. Soon after, the widely watched ZEW survey of economic conditions in Germany will bereleased. Later,...

Last week MSCI, a leading provider of market indices to which an estimated US$7 trillion in investments is benchmarked, announced a number of changes and forthcoming reviews in country equity market...

Housing starts are expected to total 929,000 in today’s update for May, based on The Capital Spectator's average econometric forecast (seasonally adjusted annual rate). That’s a moderate...

After a strong session in New York on Monday where Dow Jones, S&P, and Nasdaq all gained, Asian shares slid as investors grew increasingly nervous ahead of the news from the U.S. Federal Reserve...

Investing in emerging markets has become de rigeur for equity investors in recent years. If you like stocks, goes the argument, how could you not like stocks in countries where growth is fastest?...

Would you ever want to do business with an individual or an entity that lied to you? Probably not, right? Should we add Bank of America to the list of those entities (financial institutions,...

EUR/USD Today’s support: - 1.3320, 1.3286, 1.3264 and 1.3226(main), where correction is possible. Break would give 1.3207, where correction also may be. Then follows 1.3185. Break of the latter...

As the IMF approved its latest tranche of bailout funds for Portugal last week, the organization pointed out significant risks to the nation's economy and its deficit reduction targets. The solid...

The Dollar didn’t exactly cover itself in bullish glory yesterday. For most of the day it made hard work of a laborious consolidation that, although much in line with expectations, finally broke...

For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once...

Until the past few months I've not routinely reported on monthly manufacturing data, regional or otherwise. However, now that I'm tracking the Big Four economic indicators, which includes Industrial...