Market Overview

■ The Socialist Party managed to win the parliamentary support of the far left parties only by agreeing to a major easing of fiscal policy.■ The government then had to propose corrective...

Quality Investing: Owning the Best Companies for the Long Term (Harriman House, 2016) by Lawrence A. Cunningham, Torkell T. Eide, and Patrick Hargreaves brings the principles that have made the...

If you have been around a while, you get used to certain things happening at certain times. For example, on the second weekend of February, the world celebrates Valentine's day, which typically brings...

The turmoil in financial markets at the beginning of this year has prompted some to question whether the US Federal Reserve (Fed) should have increased interest rates in December. The markets have...

Always stay calm while others are panicking - especially in financial markets. There is a lot of talking one`s book going on in the markets with incentives to create panic and hysteria in the...

VIX rose toward its late January high at 32.09, but pulled back to close above 25.00 at the end of the week. Most market watchers take alarm when the VIX exceeds 25.00, so this week’s action is...

Fed Meeting Leaves Analysts Scratching their Heads but EM Currencies Rally2016 has been dominated by commodity price weakness and a rampant US dollar. However the tide is turning as the Fed and key...

Just like I warned the PPT came in Friday to paint the weekly charts with a reversal. This has the potential to delay the 7 year cycle low again. If so then it is going to have ramifications for oil,...

Last week, more than 20 people were arrested in China over a $7.6 billion Ponzi scheme involving a peer-to-peer (P2P) lender called Ezubao.According to a report in the Financial Times, Ezubao had...

Since the start of 2016, investor sentiment has led to a shoot now, ask questions later mentality. In the court of economic justice, all stocks have been convicted guilty of recession despite the...

The Census Bureau's Advance Retail Sales Report released this morning shows that seasonally adjusted sales in January posted a welcome rebound from the December data, and those December numbers were...

Some very smart people are taking very big bets that China may be the subject of the sequel to “The Big Short,” the movie about how the subprime mortgage crisis triggered the housing and...

The outlook for the dollar in the week ahead is not about economic data or the FOMC and ECB minutes. It is about the stability of the global capital markets.Many are looking for an event or official...

■ Janet Yellen made note of the financial market turmoil, but sought to put it into perspective while highlighting the dynamic job market.■ The Fed maintains its analysis: growth will...