Market Overview

While there were some brief setback over the week, the trend in the financial markets were unchanged. Up trend in US equities continued with DOW making another record close at 15354.4 while S&P...

China’s new-home prices rose last month in 68 of 70 cities tracked by the government, indicating Premier Li Keqiang will need to maintain efforts to cool the property market even as economic...

It’s time to put some ice on a hot investing topic. Some ice cube, that is.In his 1993 hip hop anthem, O’Shea Jackson, better known as Ice Cube, raps:“You better check yo’ self...

Friday certainly sprung a surprise. The loss of 1.2842 EUR/USD could almost be acceptable but that USD/CHF pushed above 0.9747 was not. I had considered this alternative a few weeks ago but ruled it...

A new paper by David H. Bailey and Marcos Lopez de Prado suggests that one of the consequences of over-reliance on traditional portfolio performance metrics such as the Sharpe ratio is that many hedge...

Japan's monetary experiment is truly unprecedented, both in size and scope. Not only is the overall central bank balance sheet growth accelerating, but the assets purchased are not just government...

As the market continues to seemingly move higher every day, investor complacency appears to be on the rise. The recent CBOE equity put/call ratio is at a low level of .50. Like other sentiment...

The Weekly Leading Index (WLI) of the Economic Cycle Research Institute (ECRI) is at 130.2, down slightly from last week's 131.0. The WLI annualized growth indicator (WLIg) dropped to 7.0% from 7.4%...

The most important force that has lifted the US dollar across the board is the sense, encouraged by official comments, of the potential divergence in the trajectory of monetary policy between the US...

Global economic growth is unlikely to accelerate this year. The IMF’s latest projections suggest growth of 3.3% in 2013 (from 3.2% in 2012), a 0.2 point reduction on the estimate given in its...

The Swiss franc’s exchange rate against the euro hit a record high in 2011, leading the Swiss National Bank (SNB) to set a floor rate of 1.20 Swiss francs per euro in September 2011. The SNB had...

In a region swept by numerous upheavals since the Arab Spring erupted in 2011, Morocco stands apart for its relative stability.From a political perspective, although the kingdom was hit by social...

Sixth quarter of contraction in the eurozoneOnly three countries avoid it in Q1France is not on the listThe release of Q1 2013 GDP estimates this past week showed the eurozone is stuck in recession,...