Market Overview

It may be an overstatement to describe data analysis as “the sexiest job of the 21st century” (CNBC headline, 6/5/13), but data analysts are definitely in demand. An overwhelming amount of...

In a fascinating work on long-run economic cycles, J. Anthony Boeckh’s book The Great Reflation offers up some poignant research on the U.S. economy and its cycles. The Great Reflation is a...

The Chinese are coming! Well, not really, but we did see the first Chinese initial public offering (IPO) of the year list on an U.S. exchange yesterday and only the third Chinese IPO since 2011. The...

EUR/USD Today’s support: - 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 would result in...

Pacific Investment Management Co., the world’s largest active bond manager, said investors should cut risk amid a more than 60 percent chance of a global recession in the next three to five...

“FORECAST”STOCKS: The world economy is weakening: the U.S. payroll tax increase and “sequestration” are pressurizing the U.S. economy. China is being pressurized by Japan, and...

The archeologists of the distant future will no doubt tell of the great 21st shift of the human race from terra firma into cloud cities. Or, at least, the business jargon of our day makes it seem as...

A Broad Based Index (such as the Nikkei) really shouldn't do this in 60 days:And Currencies (say, for example...the yen) shouldn't do this in 60 days: Pushing on a string: When monetary policy cannot...

Following the headlong rush lower in the Dollar during the second half of last week, the market has shaken off the rush of blood to the head with this week seeing some pretty subdued extensions. There...

The Bank of Japan failed to meet market expectations overnight as the central bank kept policy constant. Markets were expecting the Bank to extend the maturity on the cheap loans it has been making...

Unless you believe that the real economy is such that we can have a new, secular equity and dollar bull market (like the 80s and 90s), rising interest rates are going to spell disaster for financial...

How can both sides be right and wrong at the same time? Well, it's economics, for a start. And if we're talking of the dismal science, then timing is a factor too. No wonder that the debate about...

Well, that’s two straight Tuesdays that U.S. stocks have fallen. Has Wall Street finally noticed that the real estate sector – the only big winner in American’s sham...