The week ahead will see a somewhat slower pace of economic data released accentuated by a short trading week. Most of the markets, including the U.S. and Europe, will be closed on ...
S&P 500 is the world’s largest index by market capitalization. Its companies have a combined market cap of more than $24 trillion. This is bigger than the GDP of the United ...
By now it is, or should be, well-understood that the biggest deflationary virus at the heart of the European financial system is the ~€1 trillion mountain of bad loans (of whi...
The Australian conglomerate Wesfarmers is demerging its largest company within its portfolio, and from the day it was purchased it has been an example of the axiom; the price you p...
Crude oil prices retreated, rebuffing geopolitical risks that helped push them to a two-month high last week. An attack by Iran-backed Houthi forces on Saudi Arabia and the appoin...
I last wrote about the Russian Index in my post of September 8, 2017. Since then, it has broken above one downtrend line, popped above its major resistance level of 1200, spike...
The Kraft Heinz Company has had a difficult few months with the stock dropping from $80 to $60. This company caught my eye when running a scan for oversold stocks priced over $40 w...
Because the value added of Chinese exports to the United States is fairly low (i.e., exports incorporate lots of foreign components), it is unclear how much damage would be inflict...
WTI Crude Oil The WTI Crude Oil market has been very noisy during the trading session on Monday, breaking above the $66 level, before running into a buzz saw of resistance. By turn...
President Donald Trump has announced trade sanctions on China which could involve imposing tariffs on up to $60 billion of China’s products imported into the U.S. Fortunately, th...