Market Overview

On his first day as president, Donald Trump announced bold plans to reshape economic policy. His ideas for revising US priorities are as brash and audacious as they are controversial and contested in...

Dollar slips on reports that Trump will not impose tariffs on day one. But rebounds after Trump threatens Canada and Mexico. Stock futures slip but immediately recover. Gold gains on Trump...

The week ahead will be light on economic indicators and heavy on executive orders (EOs). While the markets are closed on Monday for MLK Day, President Donald Trump was inaugurated into office for his...

Gold Rises as the US Dollar Weakened After Trump's Inauguration Gold (XAU/USD) price rose by 0.24% on Monday, supported by a weaker US dollar (USD), as markets evaluated the possible economic impact...

A fatal bout of runaway instability becomes inevitable when "extraordinary emergency measures" become permanently essential to keep the bubbles from popping. A funny thing happens as policies...

Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 47th president of the United States at 12 noon Eastern. When he takes the oath office for a second time at least one thing will be clear: He will enter the White...

Q4 earnings season officially kicked off this week with 21 S&P 500 companies (mostly financials) reporting earnings. 14 companies beat estimates, 6 missed, and 1 tied. The average “surprise...

January 20th 2025 will be the beginning of 4 more years of Donald J. Trump being President. Everyone on the right of politics believes these will be 4 glorious years. Everyone on the left it seems...

January Back To Positive Last week, we noted that while closely watching how the full month of January will turn out, we did generate a positive return during the first five trading days. “As of...

US corporations' hiring plans last year totaled 769,953 workers, the fewest since 2015, according to the labor research firm Challenger, Grey, and Christmas. Private sector data shows that the need...

Market Overview: S&P 500 Emini Futures The S&P 500 Emini bulls need follow-through buying to increase the odds of retesting the all-time high. If the market trades higher, the bears want a...

This week will be crucial for markets as Trump is set to announce (or disappointingly not announce) tariffs. In this piece, I will highlight the rationale behind my base case scenario and its impact...

US Rates Update The US 10-year Bond Yield has completed wave i at the 5.021% high and we are correcting that 5-wave impulsive sequence within wave ii, which has the following retracement...

“Non-Mega Cap stocks could reasonably outperform Mega Cap stocks by about 7 percentage points annually over the next decade,” writes Bill Hester. History, it seems, may validate thesis. As for a...