Market Overview

U.S. shares led rallies in equities markets around the world in the trading week through Friday, May 19, based on a set of ETFs. The rest of the major asset classes lost ground.Vanguard Total Stock...

The risk of recession remains elevated, according to several indicators, but the soft-landing scenario isn’t dead. Support for the relatively upbeat outlook includes estimates for second-quarter...

Despite the stock market rally so far in 2023, the S&P 500 Index has not come close to regaining its all-time high put in early last year.What has soared to new highs, however, is the stock/bond...

Warnings that the US economy is close to the tipping point for recession have endured for months, but the expansion keeps surprising on the upside. More of the same is likely for the immediate future...

Last night saw US stocks breakdown at the end of the session as the debt ceiling shenanigans in Congress ended in deadlock again. This came after the USD lifted again with all the major currencies...

The world is full of economic concerns. Inflation, economic slowdown, global trade, and international war.So what’s next? Today’s chart might share a glimpse into the future. Below is a...

Losses took a toll on markets worldwide, with US stocks and bonds posting the smallest setbacks last week, based on a set of ETFs representing the major asset classes. By contrast, commodity and...

Our economic system is ultra-financialized and dependent on leverage.That’s why understanding the incentive scheme for investors and borrowers is an important step to piecing together the global...

Retailers will be the last group to deliver financial results in the Q1 reporting season. The retail sector has underperformed the broader market by a wide margin in 2023. Despite the gloomy...

The April update on US consumer inflation was widely reported as delivering another round of encouraging news. But a closer look at a broader set of inflation metrics suggests that further progress on...

What if I told you that future returns could approach zero? Such seems hard to believe, considering young investors piling back into the markets since the beginning of the year. As I discussed...

The April PPI report came in on the disinflationary side, and as a side note, unemployment claims jumped to the highest level since 2021. This has inflation-centric gold bugs scattering out of the...

Knowing what is priced in for Fed rate hikes or cuts is essential to understanding market movements.This video shows where to find changes in interest rate expectations and how to interpret the...

The US Federal Reserve raised rates by 0.25% last week, increasing its benchmark rate to between 5% and 5.25%: The highest since 2007.Although most investors expect that this latest hike will be the...