Market Overview

February wasn’t the best month for stocks, with the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average falling around 1.5%, while the Nasdaq 100 fell almost 3%. Bitcoin had an even worse month, losing over...

Economic resilience has held up, but emerging signs of weakness suggest investors should stay vigilant. Market volatility is creeping higher, hinting at a potential shift from the steady gains of...

Last week, we discussed that continued bullish exuberance and high levels of complacency can quickly turn into volatility. Over the previous week, the market fell sharply following news of a...

The choice is simple: housing is either shelter for citizens, or it's just another interchangeable speculative asset in the global financialization casino. It can't be both. We tend to think of...

Gold Declines, but the Bullish Trend Persists The gold (XAU/USD) price dropped by 0.61% on Friday after US inflation aligned with market expectations, suggesting that the Federal Reserve (Fed) won't...

This week we got the second look at Q4 GDP, which showed the economy grew at a 2.3% annualized pace. Which was the same as the 1st estimate, but below the historical average of 3.2%. Consumer...

Stocks got a major boost last Friday afternoon as implied volatility dropped sharply in the final hours of the day, aided by a large end-of-month $4+ billion buy imbalance for the closing cross....

In recent weeks, many news headlines have suggested that the US economy is tanking and that so is the Old World Order. So, investors are jittery, and a risk-off investment style is back in favor...

The combination of extremely rich equity valuations, high interest rates, and a new President taking bold actions will likely continue to whip stocks around for the foreseeable future. Alongside...

One of the most referenced valuation measures is Dr. Robert Shiller’s Cyclically Adjusted Price-Earnings Ratio, known as CAPE. Valuations have always been, and remain, an essential variable in...

A couple of weeks ago, I presented a blog post called “Trump Era Volatility: The Impact on Portfolio Allocations,” in which I pointed out that the effect of increasing volatility generally is to...

Markets have been through another week where tariffs have been the driving force behind market moves. The PCE data which I had thought would be the major event for the week failed to stoke any real...

NFP take center stage amid DOGE layoffs ECB decides monetary policy after CPI data Canada jobs report and RBA minutes also on tap  Will DOGE layoffs weigh on NFP? The US dollar traded on the back...

Trump confirms 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico, ups China tariffs by 10% Dollar jumps higher despite growing Fed rate cut bets and lower yields Aussie and kiwi lead FX losses, gold sinks...