Market Overview

The May employment report is being dubbed the most important in years, with the power to shape market expectations for weeks, if not months to come.Interest rates have moved higher ahead of it, stocks...

China’s new leaders have adopted a greater tolerance for a slowdown in the economy than their predecessors and are likely to allow quarterly growth to slip as far as 7 percent before triggering...

Asian Stocks closed lower on Friday on investor concern regarding Friday's U.S non-farm payroll data. The Shanghai index was the worst performing index during the session, dropping nearly -1.39%....

In my latest Hurriyet Daily News (HDN) column, I go over the economic consequences of the Turkish protests. You can read the whole thing at the HDN website, but basically it all boils down to whether...

CurrenciesEUR/USD- the pair traded in a major resistance zone on a 4 hour time frame. The price traded above the 50 and 100 day moving averages.USD/JPY- the price has bounced from a major support on a...

The US reports the monthly employment data today, but there are greater forces at work and it is not clear that the employment data will arrest those forces that have injected volatility into the...

ADP data on private payrolls has an interesting story to tell about job creation in the US. It is particularly helpful to understand job creation in terms of business size. ADP breaks down businesses...

Tomorrow brings the all important Employment Situation Report, when the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) will announce job growth figures for the month of May. Markets eagerly await the data release...

The Bank of England and the European Central Bank both kept policy on hold this morning as Europe still reels from a third recession since 2007 and England's economy grows ever-so slowly. The European...

There are many different types of investment strategies and opportunities in the market if you are willing to take time and search for them. When I look through companies I look for two types. A large...

The Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report was released this morning for last week. The 346,000 new claims number was a 11,000 decrease from the previous week's upwardly revised 357,000...

The Japanese equity market suffered another 3+% drop on June 5th and slipped a further 0.8% on June 6th as investors showed their dissatisfaction with a speech by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe outlining...

U.S. nonfarm payrolls release at 12:30 GMT on Friday will be the key risk event for tomorrow. According to the consensus forecast, non-farm employment is expected to rise by 167K in May (April...

Jobless claims fell for the week through June 1, slipping 11,000 to a seasonally adjusted 346,000. That leaves the number of claims close to middling relative to the range for the last several months....