Market Overview

No empire has ever prospered or endured by weakening its currency.A great many insightful commentators have made the case for why the Fed shouldn't raise rates this month--or indeed, any other month....

Despite forecasts of 49.9 from the latest manufacturing PMI report in China, results disappointed yet again by releasing at 49.6 – a fourth straight month of contraction and the lowest level of...

The week ahead is among the most important of the year. Rarely is there such a confluence of events that are known ahead of time in a short period that will have far-reaching implications for...

Anticipating a yawning divergence of monetary policy between the world's largest central banks, market participants continued to drive the dollar higher over the past week. In fact, the greenback...

The Australian Dollar found concerted selling today as a highly negative CAPEX report crushed the currency. However, the move wasn’t a surprise to technical traders given that the AUD had...

While the media remains fixed on supply, the rest of the financial complex is prepared elsewhere. On Monday, Saudi Arabia announced what the mainstream has been waiting for (and often blatantly...

• Dollar falls while yen and commodity currencies rally The dollar weakened as investors continued to cut long positions ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday, while geopolitical tensions after...

Market BriefEuropean stocks were caught in the crossfire yesterday due to mounting geopolitical tensions as Turkey took down a Russian warplane near the Syrian border. The DAX lost as much as 2%...

Judging by the very solid recovery in commodities, the perma-bears have gone too far.Although the initial reaction in commodities were due to the downing of Russian aircraft sparking tensions between...

About a month ago, I started posting regularly on the possible inflection point I was seeing with regard to the deflationary trend that has been ongoing since 2011. As readers know, stocks move from a...

The fourth estimate of 2015-2016 capital expenditures will be released on Thursday and expectations are for them to increase 4.5% to A$120 billion from the third estimate. This could signify a...

Commodities were once again the biggest talking point in trade overnight.Currently the complex as a whole is trading at its lowest levels in over 15 years. Looking at the SPDR S&P Metals &...

On Thursday of last week, I arrived back in the States after spending two weeks globetrotting and attending international investing conferences, first in New Orleans, then in Lima, Peru.Most recently...

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) minutes today provided further indication that without a major deterioration in economic activity the RBA is unlikely to ease rates further in the coming months....