Market Overview Analysis & Opinion

Ahead Of The HerdAs a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information One of the places the decline in the Canadian dollar is most evident is in our grocery...

What a difference a week makes. Last Friday, traders were falling all over themselves in a big stampede for the exits ahead of the US long weekend. This week, traders are scrambling to get back on the...

Since the beginning of 2016, bears have had the run of the markets driving indices, commodities and some currencies substantially lower. Yesterday’s US selloff and rebound had many of the...

BoC Holds:The Bank of Canada held interest rates steady at 0.5% last night. After cutting rates twice in 2015 and huge uncertainties around commodity prices and sagging economic growth off the back of...

The price of crude oil has continued to plunge overnight with both WTI and Brent falling to new lows on trend again as traders continue to react negatively to yesterday’s comments from the...

The market situation for US traders returning from the Martin Luther King holiday has improved dramatically since last Friday since the world didn’t end over the weekend. A big relief rally is...

Trepidation is often defined as a worry or fear of what is going to happen. This best describes the feeling many Canadian investors have regarding the economic outlook for 2016. It all started with...

One of the clearest signs of investor confidence in a market is whether investors and traders are willing to hold positions over a weekend or not. It’s one of the reasons that makes Friday and...

Chinese trade figures were not as bad as feared overnight, particularly on the export side, easing fears that recent stock market volatility could lead to an economic meltdown. Although China markets...

When to get Contrarian?: With the Chinese onshore RMB fix still the big Asian session focus, the fact that yesterday’s number came in 200 points below expectation was huge. Chinese authorities...

The heavy selling of the last week or so had pushed a number of markets into oversold territory, and it appears today that a number of relief rallies have started. Most notably, crude oil is on the...

Although mainland China markets fell another 5% to start the week, other stock markets have been on the rebound today. Nothing bad happened over the weekend, so some of those who had fled on Friday...

A tumultuous start of the year saw the US dollar turn in a mixed performance. Emerging market currencies and the dollar-bloc softened. Sterling was in this camp, losing about 1.2% against the dollar....

After another rough start, Chinese markets stabilized, calming nerves around the world and enabling oversold markets to bounce back. The removal of the circuit breakers that had become a target for...