Market Overview

Upcoming NFP Report Puts Bearish Pressure on Gold The gold (XAU/USD) price declined by 0.3% on Thursday as the US dollar (USD) strengthened ahead of the critical US jobs report. XAU/USD has been...

The NY Fed has recently published a study on bank failures in the U.S., examining the reasons why banks fail. For this study, the regulator constructed a large database with balance sheet information...

NFP report expectations: +169K jobs, +0.3% m/m earnings, unemployment at 4.1% Leading indicators point to a potentially above-expected reading in this month’s NFP report, with headline job growth...

Yesterday’s market was a bit volatile, though not surprising. We mainly saw sideways trading for most of the day until about 2 PM, when we experienced a significant downdraft. However, that was...

Investors have had to deal with a lot of uncertainty lately in the stock market as President Trump has rolled out the latest rounds of tariffs, targeting goods traded with China, Mexico, and Canada...

Roblox Corp's (NYSE:RBLX)price plunge is an opportunity for robust gains because there is no good reason for the 20% decline, and the fundamental factors driving the business remain intact. The only...

Investors are hopeful that a trade war can be averted. Dollar and Treasury yields slide ahead of tomorrow’s NFP. Yen rallies on BoJ hawkish remarks; BoE decides on rates. Wall Street gains, gold...

The Fed is cautious, and so is the Bank of Japan. The ECB seems determined to keep cutting and the Bank of England might be tempted to speed up its rate reduction pace later in the year. The US...

The private sector added 183K jobs in January, which was well above the market's expectation of 148K. These results were a little better than last month (December), revised to a net gain of 176K, and...

The services sector expanded at a slower pace than expected in January, with the ISM PMI coming in at 52.8. The street was expecting 54.2, and January’s result was lower than the previous month at...

Rates fell sharply yesterday following a weaker-than-expected ISM services report. The quarterly refunding announcement showed no significant shifts in how the Treasury plans to issue debt. With...

US bonds rip higher, 10-year yields dive Gold charges to fresh records, no topping signals yet USD/CHF cracks key support, downside risk builds Payrolls data the next big test Summary US long bonds...

I am continually fascinated by how many second-order ‘understandings’ are missed, even by those people who have a really good first-order understanding of finance. For example, every financial...

Ally Financial Inc. (NYSE: NYSE:ALLY) is a digital financial services company specializing in automobile loans. They were originally the financial arm of General Motors Inc. (NYSE: NYSE:GM). The...