Market Overview

Superconductivity, or the idea that certain materials are capable of conducting direct current (DC) electricity without resistance or energy loss, has been an elusive phenomenon for well over a...

Retail sales in the US have been resilient in the first half of 2023, despite concerns about a recession However, there are some warning signs that signal a slowdown in the coming months Earnings from...

Recession forecasts continue to swirl in some corners of the economics profession, but early econometric estimates for third-quarter GDP data suggest that the expansion will persist for now.US output...

Government bonds or stocks: If you were picking an asset class to outperform over the next 18-24 months, which would you choose?Such was an interesting point made by Greg Feirman last week. To...

China unexpectedly cuts key lending rate as weak data keeps pouring in, yuan skidsJapanese growth surges in Q2 but yen hits fresh low, sparking intervention fearsUS retail sales eyed as tech stocks...

The headline CPI number was cooler than expected, but that is the only good news in the report. The FOMC is on track to hike rates again, and the market is misprising the risk. Oil prices underpin...

The October ’22 highs for the 10-year Treasury yield were 4.22% – 4.25% those are closing highs. There is a 4.33% tick that might be a futures tick (after hours or pre-market trading)...

The LERI shows Q2 2023 ended with the highest level of corporate uncertainty in the last year Retail in the spotlight this week: HD, TGT, TJX, WMT, ROST Upcoming potential surprise:...

The bears got S&P 500 Futures follow-through selling on the weekly chart. The minor pullback phase has likely begun. A reasonable target for the bears is the 20-week exponential moving average.The...

More bad news about China’s economy unsettles marketsStocks extend slide, aussie slumps but dollar climbs to one-month highYen breaches 145 per dollar level ahead of Japanese GDP dataChina hit...

Unusual turbulence has overtaken the Credit Ratings world in 2023 Earlier this year, the SVB crisis sparked doubts about Agencies' ability to predict a crisis Now, Moody's and Fitch's subsequent US...

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US stocks are mostly gyrating over economic data points and surveys that remind us that the disinflation process is going to struggle reaching the Fed’s 2% target. A slightly...

USWith Wall Street very confident that the Fed won’t be raising rates in September, the focus shifts to how strong is the economy and whether it is too robust, and if that could spark fear that...