Market Watch

Good news on the domestic front breathed some life into the Dow this week. The new (and, it appears, improved) General Motors came to market to shed...

Domestic and global financial markets are being driven by major cross-currents once again. On the home front, dust is still settling in the markets...

All eyes have been on the Fed this week. And the Fed delivered, with more ammunition than expected for its second round of quantitative easing (known...

All eyes are on next week’s meeting of the Fed’s Open Market Committee (FOMC), the monetary policy setting body of the Fed. As priced in by the...

Most of the week, markets continued to reflect expectations that the Fed would increase its purchases of Treasury securities (known as quantitative...

Change is in the air, but plenty of uncertainty remains. As of mid-morning, the dust is still settling in U.S. and global markets as they take stock...

There’s a chill in the air – and not just from the weather. Today’s weak job market news for September (the tough employment situation appears to be...

The growth play from September has spilled over into October, although cross-currents are apparent and volatility should be expected. Economic news...

The September growth play picked up speed at the end of the week, as markets liked stronger than expected US business investment data from August...

Action this week has been in the stock and currency markets. “Stocks are on a September roll” ( Wall Street Journal), as the US growth play continues...

US markets this week continue to reflect a modest growth play despite uninspiring data. Safe haven concerns from abroad and deflation worries have...

We are heading into the Labor Day weekend with persistent labor market weakness and great uncertainty over the direction of the economy. This is a...