Mainstream economists and media pundits have been telling people that problems in China are unlikely to cause serious problems in the United States. They point to the fact that China only accounts for...
The global oil supply finds itself at a precarious predicament at this point in time. We have OPEC and non-OPEC countries competing with one another for market share at the expense of profitability ...
As we previewed on Thursday, the biggest event of the week, and perhaps of the month, was not Friday’s nonfarm payroll report, but the January update of China’s FX reserves, relesed by th...
With many equity markets having fallen 20% from their peaks, meeting a common definition of a bear market, investors, analysts, and journalists understandably seek a narrative that gives it meaning. ...
By Damon Verial [In this article I don’t predict]…a hard date or magnitude of the next market crash…[but] merely point out that there are several catalysts [as discussed below] tha...
This week we’ll begin with our monthly and weekly forecasts of the currency pairs worth watching. The first part of our forecast is based upon our research of the past 11 years of Forex prices, wh...
The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) released its monthly manufacturing and non-manufacturing report last week. Although manufacturing increased .2% to 48.2, this was the fourth consecutive month...
While most of the market remains hyper-focused on anything bearish, there have been three major events brewing on the sideline that could cause a dramatic and fast 20% rise in the markets. Investors...
Since late 2008, central banks around the world have used unprecedented QE to try and stoke the global economy. Then in June 2014, the ECB took it a step further. They went negative. Zero short-term i...
Asian stock indices plunged last week including the Nikkei 225 falling from around 17,700 to end the week at 16,819.59. Japanese equities have made several attempts at rallies and this time was sup...