The latest NYSE margin debt data was just released (for June - yes it gets released with a 1-month lag... which by the way reduces its...

Most analysts continue to be too bearish on the Eurozone economy, and one area where there's potential for further upside surprise is...

The official manufacturing PMI for China came in at 51.4 in July (51.5 expected, 51.7 previous), and the non-manufacturing PMI at 54.5...

The latest weekly sentiment poll on Twitter showed a couple of very interesting trends in sentiment and markets. As a reminder the...

The Euphoriameter rose again in July, with the combined sentiment reading for the S&P500 lifted by rising forward PE ratios, a low VIX,...

The latest Credit Managers' Index data from the NACM showed another blip down by -1.5 points to a still respectable 54.6 in July. It...

The TED spread is something a lot of people were seemingly worried about a few months ago - at least that bearish crowd that provide the...

As equity market implied volatility grinds lower it's worth throwing a couple more charts into the mix. In this post we look at ETF bets...

The latest hard data on global trade continue to show a picture of global trade volumes returning to trend growth. We look at the CPB...

The latest State Street Investor Confidence Index data for July showed a distinct sense of upside capitulation (by North American...

A couple of interesting data points on Europe have surfaced over the past couple of weeks which are worth highlighting. The first is the...

The July round of flash manufacturing PMIs showed a slight but important rebound in the "global flash manufacturing PMI" (an indicator we...

On a range of trends and topics these are unusual times we live in, and stock market volatility is no exception. As a matter of fact,...

Following on from the popular post on the seasonal turning point for the VIX last week, here's an insight into seasonality for the S&P500...

As the Bank of Japan is set to meet this week to review monetary policy settings it's worth checking in on a couple of particularly...

Recently the main talk in markets was reflation, but about 2 years ago everyone was talking about deflation: why deflation was...

Here's a quick update on commodity futures positioning with the latest weekly CFTC COT report data. I've just picked out what I think...

After the big reflation reset in positioning, global bond markets are showing more signs of breaking down. We previously talked in detail...

The June money supply and credit stats out of China confirmed a couple of important trends that we've previously identified. The first...

The Bank of Canada has joined the Fed in embarking on the road to monetary policy normalization, hiking the benchmark monetary policy...