Market Overview

Thursday's Market Movers With the deadline looming on Monday focus in the US will continue to be on the negotiations about an agreement for funding non-mandatory government spending for the new...

China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) has confirmed a massive new investment in a major Ugandan oil field. The Kingfisher field is believed to hold 635 million barrels of oil and the...

Citigroup Inc, (C) has announced it has reached a mortgage settlement deal with Freddie Mac. It was revealed by the banking company that it is set to pay $395 million (£245 million) to Freddie...

EUR/USD Today’s support: - 1.3495, 1.3467 and 1.3449(main),where correction is possible. Break would give 1.3432, where correction also may be. Then follows 1.3413. Break of the latter would...

On Wednesday, the stock market of the United States finished the trading session with a decrease again, and the S&P500 fell for the fifth day in a row and recorded the longest losing series this...

A busy day of economic news awaits for Thursday, including revised second-quarter GDP data for Britain (08:30 GMT) and the US (12:30 GMT). But don’t let the backward-looking big picture numbers...

Currencies The euro (EUR) remains above 1.3500 against the dollar helped by Mrs Merkel’s re-election. The pair may come under pressure should better US unemployment data be released later in the...

The forex markets are still generally staying in tight range as consolidation continues. Yen is a bit softer in mid-Asian session but yen crosses are generally held below this week's high and thus...

The nub of the problem What China proposes to do about it What's missing? Relevant precedents Risks involvedThere's growing speculation that China will soon undertake substantial reforms to its...

I wrote the following at RealMoney on 4/10/2007:I’ve written two columns already about “spring cleaning” a portfolio, walking you first through the criteria I use when reshaping my...

The current market environment is creating potential opportunities for investors seeking alternative options. These investors can beneit from a discussion comparing active microcap investing and...

Note from dshort: With today's release of the Fed Flow of Funds for Q2 2013, I have updated this commentary to incorporate the latest data.Let's take a long-term view of household net worth from the...

Overview: The Sentier Research monthly median household income data series is now available for August. Nominal median household incomes were up $123 month-over-month and $1,151 year-over-year....

As a follow-up to my last post (see A failure of Fed communication policy), I came upon a post by Barry Ritholz where he rhetorically asked, "Why do we pay attention to Fed forecasts?" His conclusion...