The Mercator 
Economics and Market Research

Equities are set to gap up following the Memorial Day holiday and shortened trading week. The Nasdaq is just over 200 points away from...

Equities are up nicely again in the pre-market to start off the week. After finishing down slightly last week, we continue to note the...

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 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...

Stocks closed down slightly last week, but are up nice in the pre-market to start this week. There definitely are some opportunities...

Stocks rebounded nicely last week, although it is still unlikely that we have seen the final lows. The rally was likely due to...

With the Federal Reserve launching QE-Infinity, an old group of individuals have resurfaced that we haven't heard from in some time-- the...

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

The circuit-breakers were activated in futures markets as equity futures opened with a limit down. Panic and hysteria is in the air. ...

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...

The last week of January is upon us, and it sure has been quite the start to the new decade in terms of world events. In the past two...

There's a lot of talk in the financial world about how foreign stocks are "less expensive" relative to American stocks, and why it's a...

Equities closed out at or very near to all-time highs again on Friday, as we begin the shortened trading week thanks to the MLK holiday....

Equity futures are up slightly to start this new week. Stocks appear slightly overbought in the short-term, and are showing some signs...