Asian stocks are lower today as Japanese and Hong Kong shares fall. The Nikkei 225 is off 0.09% while the Hang Seng is down 0.08%. The Shanghai Composite is trading up by 0.72%. Overnight US stoc...
S&P 500 The S&P 500 rallied a bit during the trading session on Tuesday, breaking above the 2600 level. Ultimately, I think that the market should continue to reach towards the 2680 level, a...
Note: We’ve updated this commentary with data through Tuesday’s market close. Let’s take a closer look at recent activity in US Treasuries. The yield on the 10-year note ended Tuesda...
Wall Street is off to a disastrous start in the second quarter. Major bourses tumbled into correction for the second time this year and closed below key technical levels. Elevated trade tensions betwe...
The final Q4 GDP revision ended up showing 2.9% growth which was up 0.4% from the prior revision. The consumer was at the heart of the growth as consumer spending grew 4% which was up from the prior...
CoreLogic’s Home Price Index (HPI) shows that home prices in the USA are up 6.7 % year-over-year (reported up 1.0 % month-over-month). CoreLogic HPI is used in the Federal Reserves’ Flow o...
The re-emergence of trade war fears has sent tremors across the Wall Street. This is because China has targeted about $3 billion in American exports in retaliation against Donald Trump’s tariff on s...
Today we have an exotic annual report to cover and lots of news after the snow has been cleared or melted here. The goods range from China to India, from Mexico to Sweden, from Qatar to Israel, from M...
The are few snarkier defenders of the current rotten financial status quo than Ben White of Politico’s Money Morning. So it’s not surprising that he is out this AM with the latest Tru...
iStock.com/jmiksjmiks Soaring LIBOR Foretells Financial Crisis: Investors Beware This statement may sound very bold, but it’s worth making: we could be on the cusp of another financial crisis. If th...