Market Overview

The Korean won's recent strengthening may be flagging a dramatic turn in investor sentiment. The Asian country's currency “has been the most preferred expression of deterioration in trade...

Weekly Technical Analysis For November 4th to 8th, 2019 We received a strong US Non-Farm Payrolls data last Friday. The US Nonfarm Payrolls in October increased by 128K following September's reading...

Following the FOMC’s announcement of its third consecutive rate cut after its meeting this week, speculation immediately broke out among market participants about whether additional cuts or even...

The Federal Open Market Committee had an unscheduled meeting on October 4. That happens occasionally and they often don’t reveal it occurred until the next regular meeting.That would mean Oct....

Willis Towers Watson’s Thinking Ahead Institute (TAI) recently revealed what it considers the 15-extreme risks facing investors for 2019, as well as for the years ahead. The risks run the gamut...

Overview: Investor optimism is reflected by the risk-taking appetite that is lifting equity markets and bond yields. With Japanese markets closed for a national holiday, theMSCI Asia Pacific Index...

Despite a tentative deal to defer a set of tariff hikes in October, the December tariffs remain on the table. Gold, with its safe haven status, can still rise higher. After 16 months of tit-for-tat...

In a post on Sep. 30, I noted that the banking sector (BKX) had begun to show relative strength, a ramification of which was that my Gold True Fundamentals Model (GTFM) had shifted from bullish to...

Stocks will likely be volatile as investors await a possible trade resolution, and U.S. economic indicators remain generally strongU.S. dollar on course to continue falling after registering a new low...

Former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan just provided a sound reason to expect a recession sooner rather than later. Wrong Way GreenspanIf you weren't worrying about recession before, former Fed...

There have been plenty of developments warning of a global economic slowdown. Yet, seemingly to justify the continued advance in equity prices, there has begun to be talk of possible cyclical and...

SummaryInternational manufacturing data is still soft. The US expansion continues apace.The markets ended the week on a high note.Key International DataChina/Japan/Australia China Manufacturing PMI...

Companies added more workers than expected in October, according to the U.S. Labor Department. The news is welcome, largely because the crowd was looking for a much-weaker gain. Good news, as far as...

By sticking to the new orthodoxy of monetary policy and pretending that we have made the banking system safe, we are sleepwalking towards that crisis. – Mervyn King, former head of the Bank of...