Market Overview

Gold Grows for the Fifth Consecutive Day Gold (XAU/USD) grew by 0.73% on Thursday as investors turned to safe-haven assets amid increasing geopolitical risks. Earlier this week, Ukraine launched its...

Moodiness due to a lack of a strong post-earnings rally from Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) remained short-lived. Investors rapidly shrugged off the company’s warning that the profit margin will dip to 73% on...

NZ activity sluggish despite rate cuts, soft surveys remain recessionary Markets, economists favour 50bps RBNZ cut, 75bps looks underpriced Cash rate 175bps above neutral, according to RBNZ...

 We are up 31.40%; S&P 500 is up 25.7% so far this year. The top window is the SPY. We noted in shaded pink the times when the SPY was up 5 days or more in a row. Five days up or more suggests...

Impinj Inc (NASDAQ:PI) is a mid-cap chip stock that has quietly had a great year in 2024. The stock has returned over 93%, placing it among the top five best returning semiconductor stocks in the...

Williams-Sonoma Inc (NYSE:WSM) offers everything an investor could want and more, making it a stock worthy of buy-and-hold status. Its quality is centered on the brand and operations, which CEO Laura...

Whether the market is overvalued is a complex question that depends on a number of factors and can be difficult to answer definitively. Some say the market is overvalued, while others argue that the...

If you could only track one economic indicator to monitor the economy the trend in payrolls would be a solid choice. Think of it as the fuel that powers consumer spending engine, which accounts for...

Wednesday's Commentary shared Walmart’s (NYSE:WMT) outstanding earnings report and reviewed its surging share price from a technical basis. Despite being a head-to-head competitor of Walmart, Target...

Gold Rises on Geopolitical Risks Gold (XAU/USD) has been rising for three consecutive days, gaining 0.69% yesterday. Geopolitical risks linked to the Russia-Ukraine conflict remain a key driver of...

Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) announced another very strong quarter after the bell. The company surpassed its own revenue forecast by around $2bn (again!) and printed a sales number of $35.1bn. That’s around...

One of the most widely used volatility indicators in technical analysis is the Average True Range (ATR). Developed by J. Welles Wilder in his groundbreaking book New Concepts in Technical Trading...

Secondary equity issuance announcements continue to run below levels from a few years ago. Uncertainty ahead of the election may have resulted in lower corporate capex and M&A trends, but...

The next round of central bank decisions could rank among the most challenging in recent history, perhaps in decades. Policy hawks and doves can cite a fair amount of evidence for supporting their...