Market Overview

Market Overview: S&P 500 Emini FuturesThe weekly S&P 500 Emini chart is forming a minor Emini pullback. The bulls want a strong retest of the March 21 high followed by a...

April was a rough month for investors, but the rebound in asset prices in the early days of May has revived expectations that the worst has passed. A key catalyst for the turnaround in sentiment:...

Gold Rises Above 2,300 Amid Escalating Middle East TensionsGold (XAU) moved sideways with high intraday volatility on Friday, caused by the nonfarm payroll report. The gold price tried to break below...

During LSEG Lipper’s fund-flows week that ended May 1, 2024, investors were overall net purchasers of fund assets (including both conventional funds and ETFs) for the second straight week,...

Vince Lanci of Echo Bay Futures & GoldFix on Substack joins us to wrap up market action in April and discuss Gold’s outlook in May. Vince believes Gold has more downside and will be watching...

It was a volatile week of trading heavily influenced by hedging flows, as noted by sharp rises and declines in implied volatility measures such as the VIX. This makes grasping the underlying message...

Investor psychology is one of the most significant reasons individuals consistently fall short of their investment goals. While one of the most common truisms is that “investors buy high and...

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released the April jobs report on Friday, revealing a cooling labor market with narrower job gains across several major industries. The report showed that the U.S....

Preliminary estimates of second-quarter US GDP activity suggest output may stabilize after two straight quarters of slower growth, based on the median for a set of nowcasts compiled by...

Bank of England meets on Thursday, unlikely to signal rate cutsReserve Bank of Australia could maintain a higher-for-longer stanceElsewhere, Bank of Japan releases summary of opinionsBoE - No rate...

The Fed held its policy meeting, leaving rates unchanged but slowing down quantitative tightening. Today's focus shifts to US labor data: strong figures could justify the Fed's hawkish stance of...

Risk appetite returns after dovish Fed, but will jobs report spoil the party?Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) to likely secure weekly gains for Wall StreetYen rally gets additional boost from softer dollar after...

Gold Consolidates Above 2,300 Ahead of Today's Critical US NFP ReportThe gold (XAU) moved in a bearish trend on Thursday, cooling after the rally caused by Federal Reserve (Fed) comments. The price...

There is a popular meme that the government has an incentive to inflate, because the same debt is worth less in real terms at a higher price level. If inflation is high enough, then the government (it...