Market Overview

Asia Asian markets have also joined a bull market. After being mired in a downward spiral for most of 2022 due to fears about the economic toll that viral restrictions would take, the...

December's CPI expected to show slowing inflation Q4 2022 earnings season begins with large Wall Street banks reporting Markets continue to focus on "bad news is good, good news is bad" theme Fed...

December's jobs report may be strong, but the labor market is yet to catch up with recessionary forces.Defying expectations, the latest job report for December shows a rise in employment by 0.2%....

Santa managed to kick the Grinch out of the sleigh and deliver positive returns for the SCR period (last 5 trading days of 2022 + first 2 trading days 2023).  As you can see above, we needed to...

Several estimates of fourth-quarter economic activity for the US have turned higher recently. The improvements clash with ongoing recession forecasts, but for the upcoming Q4 report the outlook...

US futures are indicating a higher open as of 04:05 ET. European equity markets have opened mixed to higher, following mostly higher Asian markets. Market are looking towards US NFP data....

Last week I rang the bell telling investors and traders to wake up and smell the hot coffee because 2023 is going to be a life-changing year, and likely, not for the better.The 30,000-foot...

The two main forces driving global macro and markets are the rate of change of (nominal) growth and the monetary policy stanceReal-economy money creation and leading macro indicators inform us on the...

Last year, global hedge funds recorded the worst returns in 14 years after the Federal Reserve’s extremely tight monetary policy weighed on asset prices. On a more positive note, the...

US futures are pointing to a slightly lower open after the first positive Wall Street close for 2023 on Wednesday. European equity markets have opened with losses, following mostly positive Asian...

What was the most disappointing element in the Fed minutes last night was that the Fed minutes didn't indicate that the committee members are of the mind frame of lowering the interest rate this year...

US futures are pointing to a higher open as of 04:05 ET. European equity markets have opened with gains, following mixed Asian trade. Market is responding to encouraging inflation data out of Europe....

Losses dominated market activity for the major asset classes in 2022. Commodities and cash are the exceptions. The rest of the field lost ground last year, in some cases by hefty degrees, based on a...

US futures are pointing to a higher open as of 04:05 ET. European equity markets have opened in the positive territory, following a mixed session in Asia. IMF has warned global economy is facing a...