Market Overview

I am continuing my work on the Eight Traits of the Insightful Investor. These are skills that regular readers of "A Dash" will already know as part of their routine. New readers can enjoy the show,...

“I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly,” said Marilyn Monroe.This certainly wasn’t the case Thursday as equity markets...

Was it dull yesterday? Well, kinda. Will it be dull today? For a while I suspect, but I think we’re due a little more fun very soon and it’s therefore a matter of “when” rather...

What is the significance of the fact that Verizon on Wednesday managed to sell $49bln in bonds without any kind of hiccup? Obviously, it means that the corporate market is doing okay, that investors...

1) The central bank of Indonesia surprised markets again 2) Data in Brazil are improving 3) Chinese lending data suggest signs of greater activity in the shadow banking sector 4) The Russian...

SPX: 30 to 90 days horizonsCover short 9/3/13 at 1639.77=gain 1.3%Short SPX on 8/15/13 at 1661.32.Monitoring purposes GoldGold ETF GLD long at 173.59 on 9/21/11.Long-Term Trend monitor purposes: Flat...

As noted yesterday, generally speaking stocks today are showing all of the hallmark signs of topping out. The market is overpriced, overbought, the smart money is selling, CEOs are bearish, market...

The euro area finance ministers meet tomorrow. Their discussion will be in sharp contrast to next week's FOMC meeting. The FOMC will ostensibly be talking about beginning to exit from the QE by...

Industrial production decreased in July by 1.5% m/m after rising by 0.6% m/m in June. Survey data, however, point to a rebound of output over the coming months. GDP is expected to increase further in...

Machinery orders increased by 4.4%, mainly due to the volatile elements such as orders from electric power companies. Another reason was the surge in government orders, as the JPY10 trillion fiscal...

Sterling saw its value jump yesterday (September 11th) on the back of the surprise news that unemployment has fallen in the UK. According to Andy Scott, premier account manager at foreign currency...

US retail sales are expected to rise 0.4% in tomorrow’s update for August, according to The Capital Spectator's average econometric forecast. That’s up from the previously reported 0.2%...

Market movers today We expect the eurozone industrial production to decline 0.6% m/m from July. Industrial production has been on an upward trajectory during 2013. And, even though we predicted a...

Tomorrow the Swedish National Debt Office (SNDO) is set to tap SEK1 billion of the June 2017 CPI-linked bond SGBi3107. Just one and a half hours earlier, August CPI data will be released. Hence, the...