Market Overview

VIX pulled back toward weekly Intermediate-term support at 19.99. A trader using the VIX to signal the market’s intent would label this level as “neutral.” However, the buy signal...

The ECB just announced that five banks do not meet capital requirements. If the ECB admits five, how many are there? Five? Ten? Twenty? A hundred?If you know the answer, you certainly know more than...

As we've been watching closely, something is wrong with the big banks. Their shares have lost 25-33% of their market value since the beginning of the year. What's going on?The turmoil seems greatest...

The week begins with early estimates of economic activity in February on both sides of the Atlantic, including flash PMI data for the services and manufacturing sectors in the eurozone. Later, the...

The Forex Week Ahead: February 22nd – 26thMon: JPY – Manufacturing PMI, EUR – Eurozone Manufacturing, Services and Composite PMI’s, USD – Manufacturing PMI Tue: EUR...

It was a busy week of news in Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs). Although there were several earnings announcements, perhaps most notable was the disclosure of new investments by Berkshire Hathaway...

The main driver of the investment climate is not so much the incremental economic data as the capital markets themselves. The market turmoil contributed to the tightening of financial conditions,...

The CFTC Commitment of Traders reporting week ending February 16 was short due to the US holiday. This may have contributed to the small adjustments to speculative positioning in the currency futures....

I read tea leaves which are constantly in motion. It not hard for me to paint a doom-and-gloom picture one week, and the next week say that everything is coming up roses. I do not fall in love with...

Jim Jubak’s Juggling with Knives (I couldn’t resist the alliteration): Smart Investing in the Coming Age of Volatility (PublicAffairs, 2016) is a thoroughly enjoyable if somewhat unnerving...

Over the past week all of my core market health indicators showed a slight improvement. It is somewhat disappointing that the indicators aren’t responding much to the strong rally and...

'Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.' Mary Lou Retton The world can be a downright difficult place, so much so one can be forgiven...

A few months ago, I wrote about strong insider buying and how it can be a promising sign for a company’s future stock performance. Last week, JPMorgan Chase’s CEO Jamie Dimon paid $26.6M...

It was always a matter of when, not if, the financial markets would tell the Fed to stop raising interest rates. And it appears the message has been received: Fed’s Bullard speaks against...