Market Overview

It has been a night of high drama so far, with exit polls suggesting that Boris Johnson's Conservatives are on course to vanquish Labour and achieve an 86 seat majority in yesterday's UK election....

With one active year of raising rates and reducing its balance sheet behind them, and a second active year reversing all those actions, the Federal Reserve seems ready to go into hibernation and sleep...

U.S., global benchmarks jump on strong economic data Investors still await decision on Dec. 15 tariffs on Chinese consumer goods A variety of monetary policy decisions coming this week...

President Trump's comments that a trade deal may not happen until after the 2020 election sent stock markets into a tailspin overnight, and are spilling over into the Asia Pacific this morning. One...

Investors may be getting impatient once again at the lack of trade progressYields set to keep fallingOil threatening to reverse into a downtrend With the approach of the Dec. 15 deadline for the next...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell was bullish on the US economy in his annual testimony to the Joint Economic Committee of Congress on Wednesday, leading him to reaffirm his earlier suggestions that...

This post was written exclusively for Investing.com Three inflation data points suggest that investors may get as many as two more rate cuts in 2019. According to data from the CME Group, the odds for...

U.S. futures weaken on mixed U.S.-China trade talks signals Dollar falls as trade caution prevails Treasury yields and WTI develop bearish patterns Key EventsFutures on the S&P 500, Dow and...

Tired of range-bound oil and gold markets? Take a look at America’s golden crop, corn, which is enticing investors to go long, just as other commodities are wilting under the weight of the...

This post was written exclusively for Investing.comThe latest ISM Manufacturing report sent shivers down the spines of investors when it came in at 47.8 versus analysts' expectations of 50.4 on the...

There is a deja-vu feeling now in gold—like a seen-it, done-it kind of thing. The longs in the market are kind of resigned to the notion that both gold futures and bullion will remain trapped in...

If only James Bullard had had his way. The head of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis was the only voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) who wanted to cut the Fed’s...

The U.S. Federal Reserve is giving new meaning to “leading from behind” as it enables central banks around the world to cut their benchmark rates after it first reversed its own policy of...