Market Overview

Headlines the Economic Calendar on Thursday Manufacturing PMI Numbers: Keep your eye on a report on activity in the manufacturing sector. German Manufacturing PMI will be announced and it is expected...

One day the stock market 'falcon' will no longer hear the Fed 'falconer', and the Pavlovian magical thinking will break down as the market goes bidless.The past decade has shown that when the Federal...

Additional stimulus for the economyNotwithstanding the fact that the U.S.-China Phase 1 trade deal is likely to be signed early this month, China has stepped in with additional liquidity measures to...

by Caroline Gerber This is part two of our annual outlook for the coming year. Part one focused on the direction equities could take in 2020.During 2019, equities rallied to all-time highs despite...

By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset ManagementOn this last trading day of the year, we want to take a look at some of the most important themes of 2020. For the forex market...

The US stock market has recently rallied throughout most of the last year after the very deep downside price rotation in late 2018. Our researchers believe there is a very high likelihood of this...

I knew this repo crisis would require more injections, but it wasn’t easy to get clear data on just how many it would take. I was trying to identify how much money has gone into propping up the...

The dollar bears are revealing in the afterglow of the PBOC yuan Reference Rate fixing today, which came in at 6.9762 v 6.9805 prior, and is the most robust fix since early August. Looking at the...

Companies with tangible net value of less that zero have increasingly outperformed the market for decades. Bloomberg comments Capitalists Without Capital Are Ruling Capitalism Some 40% of...

S&P 500 Stocks fell yesterday with the S&P 500 (SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NYSE:SPY)) dropping by roughly 55 bps to close at 3,222. The index did make it as low as 3,216, and it also...

As we wrap up the last two-trading days of the decade, I am wrapping up the recent series on “investing rules” (see here and here). The purpose of this series is to remind investors of the...

Market Overview: Weekend Market UpdateThe Emini is closing out the decade at a new high after opening the decade near the low. This increases the chance for a couple weeks of profit-taking in early...

U.S. contracts hover at near flat levels, as Europe declines after Asia trades mixed Yields jump but remain mired by technicals Dollar on verge of reversal Key EventsOn the penultimate trading...

Light trading is expected today as market participants leave hints that expectations remain in place for US stocks to continue march higher, while the dollar will soften in the New Year. The limited...