A number of commentators have pointed out the divergence between economic policy uncertainty indexes and the VIX or equity volatility. ...

With the FOMC meeting underway at the time of writing, it's worth going through one of my favorite #FedCharts - and it is one that in my...

Seasonality is something that matters in markets, economics, and life! Most people have heard of the term "sell in May" (and the rest of...

The May reading of the global State Street Investor Confidence Index rose +5.1 pts to 102.5 which indicates institutional investors are...

China just released it's May official PMI data, and overall the results are fairly benign, and on the surface not much to change the view....

Since the global synchronized economic rebound that got underway in the middle of last year, one key standout and something I've been...

The latest round of flash manufacturing PMIs for May saw the Eurozone in the lead up +0.3 to 57.0 and USA trailing behind, down -0.3 to...

Commodities are at a crossroads (as an asset class, i.e. looking at the broad investable index, in this case the GSCI Light Energy Index)....

The latest round of the OECD Composite Leading Indicators [CLI] showed on the surface a fairly rosy assessment of the global economic...

While the manufacturing PMIs are notoriously volatile series month-to-month, they give us the most timely and relatively high frequency...

The China official (National Bureau of Statistics) PMI results for April showed a clearly weaker result than March, but with most of the...

Commodity market breadth measures show a market that looks vulnerable. The below charts apply market breadth measures to the GSCI (Light...

As we covered a few days ago, looking just at the manufacturing PMIs it is clear that the Eurozone economy is looking much stronger than...

The global flash manufacturing PMI was basically unchanged in April as improvement in Europe and Japan offset further slowing in the US...

This week we got the NAHB Housing Market Index for April - a key gauge of US housing market health. The index fell slightly to 68 (vs...

This article looks at two lenses on individual investor asset allocations. Doing this allows us to have a gauge for where the average...

For some reason there seems to be a lot of people obsessed with and almost losing sleep about the level of US margin debt. In fairness...

Probably a lot of people look at the longer term chart of silver and the first thing they see is the massive bull market that peaked in...

One thing I’ve been watching closely over the last couple of years is the pace of global trade growth. In the lead up to the market...

As the recent selloff in the S&P 500 looks to be over before it really even got started, I thought it would be worth highlighting an...