Market Overview

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...

BoC delivers second surprise hike of the week, aussie and loonie shineMarkets forced to reassess their understanding of a ‘pause’Dollar slips amid confusion over Fed policy, tech rally hit...

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...

Stocks declined after investors got spooked when the Bank of Canada restarted their rate hiking campaign. Canada’s central bank is viewed as one of the leaders when it comes to being proactive...

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...

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...

With the Fed meeting on tap next week (the rating announcement is slated for 2:00 pm Wednesday with the Powell presser to follow) and the crowd split on whether or not the country's merry band of...

The pace of the upcoming disinflationary impulse is likely to surprise many: most of our TMC models and leading indicators confirm our call for US core CPI to be in the 3% area by December, and to...