Market Overview

Taking risks is no longer necessary to make a return on your savings.Not long ago, “cash is trash” was a common theme as savings accounts yielded zero. Of course, such was the intent of...

The US economy is expected to enter a recession by the end of the year. Despite the risks, investing in equities may still be a viable option. The S&P 500 appears to be in an uptrend, but the 4200...

Poor PMI data from China drive crude demand concerns Gold struggles as yields surge; 10-year Treasury yield rises 14.4 basis points to 3.566% Bitcoin falls 3.8% to $28,200 OilThe Chinese ISM...

A 25bps interest rate hike is 90% priced in, with another 25bps hike in June currently seen as 30% likely. Assuming the Fed delivers the expected 25bps rate hike, the focus will quickly turn to the...

Investing is easy. Long term equity market is bullish. That’s a fact. So just buy it.Yet, people keep on trying to time the market, and -even worse- short it. OK let me be clear: I’m...

(Monday market open) Investors have their pick of news this week, with Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) reporting on Thursday just a day after another interest rate decision by the Federal Open Market Committee...

S&P 500 Futures's April candlestick consecutive bull bars close above the 20-month exponential moving average (EMA). Monday is the first trading day of the month. The market may gap up at the...

Most of the major asset classes continued to rebound in April, led by property shares ex-US, based on a set of ETF proxies. The downside outliers: foreign government bonds in developed markets, stocks...

The US money-supply data for March-2023, which were published on Tuesday of this week, reveal that the monetary inflation rate has continued its ‘swan dive.’ As illustrated below, the...

This week will be extremely busy as we have an FOMC decision, the nonfarm payroll report, peak earnings season, all while Wall Street keeps an eye on the banking industry to see if any news stresses...

May will feature likely rate hikes by the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, and the Bank of England. The banking stress that erupted in March appears contained, though one regional bank's...

First Quarter GDP increased at only a 1.1% seasonally adjusted annual rate. That was down from 2.6% in Q4 of last year, which was down from 3.2% during Q3. Despite the clear slowdown in economic...

May is expected to be another volatile month on Wall Street. Investor focus will be on the Federal Reserve’s policy meeting, the monthly jobs report, inflation data, more earnings, and the U.S....

Recently, US House Speaker McCarthy tweeted this: And although it sounds like common sense, it’s dead wrong. The government doesn’t need money to spend money. The government creates money...