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Economics and Market Research

Equities are mixed this morning with the S&P and Dow up, but the Nasdaq is slightly down. Many may be perplexed as to why the markets...

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 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...

It just doesn't exist. It never has, it never will. Does that mean markets are rigged? Perhaps, but not necessarily. The better answer...

Futures are basically flat from Sunday's overnight session, as we come off the previous shortened trading week due to Easter. The most...

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...

Equity futures witnessed another limit-down in last night's trading session. But this morning, the Federal Reserve committed to...

We are not even three months into the new decade, and the existing economic order that has been in place since 1971 is on the verge of...

It is truly incredible how fast markets, and life itself, can change. Not even a month ago, equities were at all-time highs, and things...

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. ...

There is seemingly an endless amount of financial literature available for those looking to become involved in markets. But there are...

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