Market Overview

As long as investors do not know whether or not the US Federal Reserve will take a break in its cycle of interest rate hikes next week, they will take a break on the stock market. The DAX rumbled...

Since October 2022, the stock market has traded consistently higher as earnings improved. With the first quarter earnings season behind us and the second quarter approaching, will earnings improve...

US weekly jobless claims hit highest in 1½-years, boosting Fed pause betsTech stocks find reason to celebrate as yields decline but China weakness weighsDollar skids but steadier today, aussie...

Thursday afternoon means one thing, and that’s the Fed Spread. I am probably going to resume putting these posts behind the pay wall next week, since this chart is about to get extremely...

(Thursday market open) Smoke isn’t the only thing blowing in from Canada this week. A rate hike north of the border raised concerns on Wall Street, but by and large the market still seems...

Market timing is investors' worst enemy And, buy and hold is investors' best friend in the long term Despite knowing this, most investors tend to lose a lot of money Despite the emergence of...

The US and European stock futures are trading a bit flat while traders focus on the next big catalyst that will drive the price action. The past few weeks have been about the US debt, and the drama...

The US trade deficit widened to a 6-month high and by the most in 8 years.That means that we imported way more goods while our exports declined. We don’t like to use one economic stat as the...

Today we are going to geek out on inflation derivatives a little more. Since early 2022, just after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, 10y US CPI swaps have fallen from about 3.15% to around 2.50% (see...

(Wednesday market open) Stocks continue treading water near recent nine-month highs ahead of next week’s Federal Reserve meeting. It’s a quiet period with little economic data or earnings...

CEO of a well-known fund recently said we're in a 'no-recession recession' This is after the markets rallied, the economy remained strong It seems like the 'finance gurus' were wrong, once again I was...

The headwind isn’t expected to soften for the world economy in 2023. For a second year in a row, global economic activity will ease, predicts the World Bank. There’s also a bit of good...

U.S. and European markets are set for a mixed open as traders pay close attention to weak economic numbers out of China and another surprise interest rate hike by the RBA.Over in Europe, what matters...

European indices and US futures look a little flat following a mixed session in Asia overnight, as Chinese trade data failed to inspire, while Australian GDP pointed to further pain as the RBA...