Market Overview

The continued partial shutdown of the US government and the risk of default remains the overriding consideration in the global capital markets. There appears to have been limited progress over the...

Fed Governor Jerome Powell presented a short speech defending the FOMC on Friday titled, “Communications Challenges and Quantitative Easing.” He noted that the labor market has improved...

Financial and economic yabadabadoo continues to litter the headlines, extolling solid future economic results with complex explanations and esoteric formulas that give credence to no more than an...

With the government shut down, it is time to take another look at the stated sticking point to restarting the government – medical costs (aka Obamacare).So today’s post will be less...

Signals are automatically generated by integrating electronic weekly statistics with proprietary algorithms. GOLD WEEKLY MOVING AVERAGES The December gold futures contract closed at 1273 . The...

This week, the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) issued its first long-term bond, exactly a year after starting up operations. Until now, it had solely raised cash trough short-term notes, 3 and...

Further evidence of an upswing in the euro zoneThe euro zone recovery looks set to be both gradual and on a modest scale. The OECD’s leading indicator for the euro zone stood at 100.6 in August,...

A very interesting week that saw markets go into full blow big time correction mode with many gains that took weeks to accumulate wiped out in a single day if you weren’t out prior to it which...

Some sizeable moves in markets today. Visually:The best day for Equities since 1/2/2013 which was a relief rally that Congress didn't completely drop the ball on the Fiscal Cliff. There's plenty of...

Above is a chart of the US’s total public debt as a percent of GDP. As of Q2, the ratio was at 100.5%. According to current estimates, the debt to GDP ratio is now at 106.5% and rising. This...

The cable is still trading just below 1.60 psychological level after it could be under pinned by the risk appetite returning to the market with greater hope for reaching a compromise about the debt...

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Q3 Earnings Season Takes the Spotlight Seems like we can start looking ahead to a life without ‘too much’ Washington distractions. We are not quite there yet, as there is no tangible deal...

Early Friday before the market’s open, a young Bloomberg correspondent expressed astonishment on air at the market’s rip-relief rally on Thursday. Nothing had been really solved yet in...