Oil edges higher but lacks momentum Oil prices are edging higher on Tuesday, although momentum has slowed notably from the previous weeks. Oil prices struck a...
Oil rises with stockpile data in focus Oil prices are extending gains, with Brent rising for a fifth straight session, closing in on USD75, its highest...
On Wednesday, the New Zealand dollar is considerably higher. In European trade, NZD/USD is trading at 0.7144, up 0.36% on the day. The New Zealand dollar...
It’s Fed day, and European stocks are looking nervous. Bourses are trading mixed ahead of the Federal Reserve monetary policy announcement later today as investors question...
The recent slide in the bond market has been granted a reprieve over the last two months. Interest rates have retreated in recent weeks, which has...
Slowly At First... Then All At Once Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Bull markets always seem to end the same – slowly at first, then...
Charts That Should Scare The Pants Off The Fed (And Probably Do) Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Let's investigate the relationship between the Fed's QE...
Bull markets always seem to end the same - slowly at first, then all at once. My recent discussion on why March 2020 was a "correction"...
Main indices across Europe jumped, while the S&P 500 stocks index ended at another… The post World stocks rise as investors eye interest rates first appeared...
The Coming 'Build Back Better' World By Michael Every of Rabobank Double Or Nothing There’s lots to cover today, but let’s start with inflation. Friday’s Michigan...
Seven Things Nobody Talks About That Will Eventually Matter... A Lot Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Nobody seems to notice the 'diminishing returns'...
Here Comes Another Retail Sales Miss Bank of America's economists have been on a roll in the past four months. Back in February, the bank looked...
Thanks to central bank largesse, corporate bond markets weathered the depth of the Covid crisis well. Risks to credit markets today appear low with gradually improving...
Oil rises on strengthening demand outlook Oil prices are on the rise at the start of the new week, building on three straight weeks of gains...
Financial Post columnist Kevin Carmichael, editor of the FP Economy newsletter, unpacks the week in economics. Trading nation ...
Monday and Tuesday of this week are particularly quiet in terms of economic data releases. The lull forms a suitable introduction for the... Read More... The...
Overview: The short squeeze that lifted the US dollar ahead of the weekend has seen limited follow-through buying, and instead a consolidative tone emerged. Europe is...
What If Everyone Is Wrong About US Inflation's Impact On Interest Rates? By Nicholas Colas of Datatrek Just one "Markets" topic today, but an important issue...
Over the last couple of months, the Fed started its campaign to prepare markets for a "taper" of its asset purchases. Michael Lebowitz noted that Jerome...
I told you last week that there were strange things going on in the labor market but I had no idea how much of an understatement...
"World War II Was Transitory" - Putting Inflation In Context Via Global Macro Monitor, Inflation In Context: A Liquidity Adjusted CPI Index We had a few...
U.S. stocks were mixed last week. The S&P 500 index closed on Friday at a record high. Real Estate and Healthcare names rallied, while the Financial...
Bank of Montreal (CA: BMO), the fourth-largest Canadian bank by market cap—which derives a fairly even mix of revenues from Canada and the U.S.—has been on...
This post is a short follow-up to our inflation piece from last night, Inflation In Context: A Liquidity Adjusted CPI Index, which was a bit too wonky,...
Baltimore City Responds After Dozens Of Businesses Threaten Not To Pay Taxes This weekend, the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) closed down multiple city streets around the Inner Harbor, in...
Real Interest Rates Suggest It's A Good Time To Buy And Hold Gold Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Let's investigate the relationship between real interest...
The Hangover Arrives: Explosive Inflation Leads To Record Collapse In Home, Car Purchase Plans For the past several months we have warned about the pernicious effects...
First, folks, please send your prayers, thoughts, good feelings, positive energy, miracles, healing touch, whatever you got, and whatever it takes to GMM’s beloved Carol K.,...
- by New Deal democratBy now you’ve probably already read a fair amount of commentary on yesterday’s consumer inflation report for May. I’m going to cut...
Rates, The Dollar, & The Fed's Dis-Inflationary Dilemma Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, As we move into the second half of 2021, interest rates and...