Shares in the energy patch continue post the strongest year-to-date performance for US equity sectors, based on a set of exchange traded funds through yesterday’s close...
The COVID-19 Baby-Bust Is Here And It's Likely Permanent Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk, Nine months after the pandemic began birthrates are falling in numerous...
The demand for money—as measured by the ratio of M2 to nominal GDP—currently stands very near to an all-time, eye-popping high (see Chart #1). The turmoil...
The Bank of Canada is working hard to avoid a taper tantrum when it eventually decides to slow its government bond purchases. Toni Gravelle, a deputy...
The Japanese yen continues to trade sideways this week. Currently, USD/JPY is trading at 108.71, down 0.12% on the day. The Japanese yen remains under pressure,...
Oil prices retreat on oversupply concerns Oil prices are declining as market structures flip to contango, the dollar resumes despite falling bond yields, and a dreary...
Most economic forecasters expect very strong GDP growth in 2021 as the $1.9-trillion American Rescue Plan works its way through the economy and more people are...
The Best 12 Months Since 1936 By Jim Reid, chief credit strategist at Deutsche Bank Today is the one-year anniversary of the pandemic lows in markets...
Powell, Do You Even Know What The Economy Is? Authored by Bruce Wilds via Advancing Time blog, After all the destructive policies we have seen coming...
Bank Of Canada Ends All Pandemic Bailout Facilities As largely expected - and forewarned - amid 'excess' liquidity and a 'functioning' market, the Bank of Canada...
The Japanese yen continues to trade sideways this week. Currently, USD/JPY is trading at 108.71, down 0.12% on the day. The Japanese yen remains under pressure,...
Watch Live: Powell, Yellen Tell Congress Economic Recovery Has A Long Way To Go Fed Chairman Jerome Powell's whirlwind week of public appearances and monetary policy...
Kiwi Crumbles As New Zealand Targets Speculators To Burst "Dangerous" Housing Bubble One month after the New Zealand government took the historic step of adding a...
The New Zealand dollar has plummeted in Tuesday trade. Currently, NZD/USD is trading at 0.7024, down 1.94% on the day. Earlier in the day pair fell...
EUR/USD declined today, erasing yesterday’s gains. Market analysts explained the decline by risk aversion caused by the spread of the COVID-19 across Europe as well as rising political tensions between China and the European Union as well...
Inflation is topical again. The crowd is becoming increasingly concerned that a combination of factors, including ramped-up fiscal spending and ongoing monetary stimulus, will conspire to...
New Zealand, Australian dollars show sharp losses Currency markets ranged overnight, with a slight fall in US yields prompting the US dollar index to retreat by...
EUROPEAN SHARES European shares opened lower on Tuesday, extending the bearish trend seen in Asia amid progress slowing in the... The post Daily market commentary: Oil...
"Going To Get Ugly" - Global Plastic Shortage Triggered By Texas Deep Freeze The cold snap that shut down oil fields and refineries across Texas last month...
Most economic forecasters expect very strong GDP growth in 2021 as the $1.9-trillion American Rescue Plan works its way through the economy and more people are...
Oil trading sideways Crude prices are steady despite some upward pressure in COVID cases in several northern US states and as Germany follows through with an...
Concerns over Germany extending lockdown restrictions, the UK pushing out its travel ban combined with the tanking Turkish lira set European bourses off on the back...
The New Zealand dollar has kicked off the new trading week with slight gains. Currently, NZD/USD is trading at 0.7182, up 0.33% on the day. NZ...
Futures Rebound Despite Turkey Slaughter Global markets, bond yields slid and the Turkish lira plunged towards a record low against on Monday after President Tayyip Erdogan...
Key Events This Week: PMIs And Powell Trifecta With the major central bank meetings now out of the way, market attention over the week ahead will...
Since the "Financial Crisis," the hope was that inflating asset prices would trickle down into economic growth. Unfortunately, after a decade of monetary interventions and artificially...
Dalio Wants You To Swap Treasuries For Chinese Debt By Ye Xie, Bloomberg macro commentator and analyst Three things we learned last week: 1. It seems...
The Fed's Dot Game: "Something Missing" Submitted by Joseph Carson, former chief economist at Alliance Bernstein The Federal Reserve members' updated projections at the March 16-17...
Cornered: Powell Can't Raise Rates As Economy Remains On Life-Support Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Last week, we stated: “With valuations still extended, the recent...
Republicans Greet Covid Stimulus with Another Round of Inflation Fearmongering Their cry-wolf act is well practiced but lacks credibility. Bruce Bartlett, TNR, March 15, 2021 ...