The latest house price data, the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, illustrate a critically important point: real estate is local. That seems an obvious statement, but many of us have...
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The market expectations for weekly initial unemployment claims (from Bloomberg/Econoday) were 235 K to 243 K (consensus 240,000), and the Department of Labor reported 244,000 new claims. The more impo...
It has been a contrarian trade that has not yet worked out; by that I mean my short position on the Euro and preparation for a firming US dollar. Yesterday the market cheered the supposedly dovish Fed...
Yesterday, the Fed released its most recent monetary policy statement. How can it affect the gold market? In line with expectations, the Fed kept interest rates unchanged at between 1.00 and 1.25 p...
Durable goods orders rose a whopping 6.5% in June led by civilian aircraft orders. Econoday economists expected a 3.5% rise. Excluding transportation, however, durable goods orders only rose 0.2% vs...
So often investors take one move on the part of a central bank as a signal that the universe has changed fundamentally. This is the case with the knee-jerk reaction on the part of bond investors and c...
Citi is out with a new take on crude, which is pretty interesting in the context of Goldman’s “green shoots,” note and against what certainly appears to be a brightening fundamental picture. As ...
(Video length 00:02:48) In Currency Cycles, we forecast the price action in the near term for the euro. The euro may still have a little upside left, but having just undergone a big rally, it’...
Dow Chemical (DOW – Free Report) topped earnings expectations in second-quarter 2017, helped by its cost-cutting and productivity actions, improved pricing and continued focus on consumer-dri...