Wall Street went on a wild ride after a huge nonfarm payroll report miss reaffirms the Fed’s stance to do nothing. A massive slowdown in hiring...
Existential Economic Threats: How US States Can Survive Without Federal Money Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, We all knew it was coming; the alternative economic...
Rising Bond Yields Threaten Financial Market Stability Authored by Alasdair Macleod via GoldMoney.com, There is a growing recognition in financial circles that price inflation will increase...
It's Not Just Soaring Inflation: Here Are The 4 Main Themes On This Quarter's Earnings Calls By now everyone - except a very special group of...
Futures Rise Ahead Of Blockbuster Payrolls As Commodities Soar S&P futures rose overnight alongside European and Asian market in another quiet session, as commodities smashed higher...
Overview: Ahead of a report that is expected to show that employment jumped by around a million in the US last month, the dollar remains lower on...
Friday is finally here, and with it the week’s data highlight, the US Non-Farm Payrolls. It has been a choppy week of trading across most asset...
PayPal had an earnings per share of $1.22 with revenue of $6.03 billion, how do you plan to trade on this positive market development
Futures Flat As Traders Look For Buying Catalyst For the fourth morning in a row, futures are barely changed - a stark reversal to the previous...
After an indifferent period Novo Nordisk has kicked off 2021 on the front foot, raising its financial forecast The post Novo Nordisk ups forecasts after Q1...
Overview: Disappointing German, French, and Italian PMI reports helped send the euro to almost $1.1985, its lowest level in about two and a half weeks, and...
Sam Zell Buys Gold To Hedge Against Surging Inflation, "Debasement" Of The Dollar Fed Chairman Jerome Powell insisted once again last week that the inflationary pressures...
The STOXX 600 index ended 0.6% higher, MSCI’s benchmark for global equity markets added… The post Global equity markets rise on hopes of economic recovery first...
Futures Slide, Tech Weak On Rising Inflation Fears For the second day, US equity futures traded in a narrow range, dipping during the muted Asian session...
Overview: After seeing its pre-weekend gains pared yesterday, partly due to some disappointing data, the US bounced back today. It is posting broad gains, and the...
US Manufacturing PMI underperforms Although the world loves it when a plan comes together, an opposite reaction occurs when it doesn’t. Such was the case overnight...
The US dollar sharply reversed much of Friday’s month-end gains as ISM Manufacturing data disappointed. I suspect that much of the greenback’s rally on Friday was...
It’s important to understand what happened in 2017’s bull run and why the current bull market may be different. The post Aiming High: How 2021’s Cryptocurrency...
Here Are The Best Performing Assets In April And YTD April was another solid month for financial markets, with 31 of the 38 non-currency assets in...
After generally trending higher in the first quarter, the dollar slumped in April. An important leg of support was cut, as interest rates fell. The 10-year...
Overview: The capital markets are off to a cautious start of a week that features the central bank meetings in the UK, Australia, Norway, Poland, Czech,...
The US dollar traded heavily most of last week but rebounded ahead of the weekend, with some month-end flows impacting. The Japanese yen was a notable...
Now that the first estimates of Q1 growth in the US, China, and the EMU, which account for around 70% of the world's economy, have been...
Futures Slide On Last Day Of April Despite Blowout Earnings And Econ Data "As good as it gets." U.S. index futures slumped on the final trading...
Former Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper recently suggested bitcoin could become a reserve currency alongside the U.S. dollar.
US dollar eyes FOMC meeting The US dollar had a mixed session overnight, falling against the risk-sensitive Commonwealth currencies but rising mostly versus the majors, with...
This past week, the financial media was ripe with one guru after another calling for the market to correct to the tune of anywhere from 5-20%,...
S&P Futures Flat Ahead Of Earnings Deluge; Nasdaq Drops As Tesla Looms S&P futures were flat, Nasdaq futures dipped ahead of FAAMG earnings while European stocks...
Signs, Signs Everywhere... Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog, “Fools, as it has long been said, are indeed separated, soon or eventually, from...
The slow, but steady increase in Covid-19 cases across Asia, ex-India, is weighing on sentiment in early Asian trading. India’s situation dominated the weekend press, but...