Markets

Dec 01, 2015 at 05:14

USD/CHF is now consolidating and is still trading around its five-year high. Hourly support is given by the lower bound of the uptrend channel around 1.0200 while hourly resistance is…

Dec 01, 2015 at 05:13

As the terrorist attack in Paris sparks worldwide fear of similar reprisals and a bloody shootout and hostage situation in a five-star Mali hotel exacerbates those concerns, global energy security…

Nov 30, 2015 at 19:08

At the Cato Monetary Conference this week, Scott Sumner said he had a "modest" proposal, that there should be a highly liquid futures market in Nominal Gross Domestic Product (NGDP).…

Nov 30, 2015 at 15:42

Trading position (short-term; our opinion): Short positions with a stop-loss order at $54.12 and initial (!) target price at $35.72 are justified from the risk/reward perspective.

Nov 30, 2015 at 15:32

Volatility in the Chicago PMI likely has economists scratching their heads. Following last month's surge comes this month's contraction. It's been off and on for 10 months. No swing in…

Nov 30, 2015 at 14:53

Because apparently the world isn't complex and scary enough, the major powers have decided to unveil a bunch of "superweapons" capable of, um, unique kinds of mayhem ...

Nov 30, 2015 at 14:51

One of the easiest ways to understand the weather is to look out the window. With the market assigning an "almost a done deal" probability of 78% that the Federal…

Nov 30, 2015 at 14:48

The global economic trade is down 8.4 percent so far this year. Among the many economic indicators that experts use to gauge the health of the world economy, the Baltic…

Nov 30, 2015 at 14:46

Although we've maintained a predominantly bullish outlook towards both Japan and China (equity markets) over the past year, we've also continuously panned the long-term prospects of US equities, as the…

Dec 13, 1901 at 14:45

They call it 'behavioral finance'. It's the study and application of how psychology affects decision-making in financial markets. This field is widely studied now in both academia and the business…