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Economics and Market Research

Stocks are rallying nicely to start off the week, as news of additional covid vaccines come to market. This positive market activity is...

Stocks just closed out at their second-highest weekly level in history, at least in the Nasdaq and S&P. The Dow lags slightly behind,...

Equities are continue to behave in a risk-off manner, as all three major indices are down notably this morning to start off the week. We...

Equities continue to consolidate near their highs, which is bullish. The divergence between the major indices remains a concern in the...

The big-mover on Monday was Silver, which is now close to exceeding its 2016 high. This is one of the biggest breakouts on the cusp of...

Stocks are coming off another week of gains, but are down early this morning in pre-market trading. The previous week made it seem like...

The pre-market is rather quiet this Monday morning. Even so, equities pulled back from their highs last week, and finished on Friday...

Equities are up nicely again in the pre-market to start the week after posting small losses last week. Two weeks ago, we stated, "It...

Obviously, this sounds crazy at face value, but Quantitative Easing for bonds was deemed crazy when it first began. But now, QE is...

The big mover this morning is Crude Oil, which is down big-time and trading around $11.50 as of this writing. The collapse in this...

This headline may seem crazy since bonds are the only asset that have gone up recently. Stocks, gold, silver, oil, bitcoin, and the...

In just one week, stocks erased all of their gains since October. Although the severity of the selloff was a bit worse than anticipated,...

Equities are down significantly across the board this Monday morning. This is something we warned about in previous weeks. Last week's...

U.S. markets are closed on Monday, February 17 in observation of President's Day. Markets overseas are up so far on Monday, in spite of...

After a very nice, warm, and much-needed vacation, we are back to analyzing global financial markets. It hasn't been that long since our...