Crude oil prices spent most of last week consolidating between a narrow range.Efforts from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) continue to support the commodity on the sidelines.

The ECRI indicator has often shown conspicuous contractions between recessions, enough to make an erroneous recession call while the WLEI did not trigger such a call. Both indicators generally move in the same direction, but the WLEI less volatile.

USD/CAD reversed directions last week, posting gains of 0.50%. This week’s key event is the Bank of Canada rate decision. Here is an outlook for the highlights of this week and an updated technical analysis for USD/CAD.

Reuters spoke with dozens of drivers, regional operators and industry officials across the U.S. to assess the performance of the U.S. trucking sector. They discovered an industry that slumped in late 2018, with accelerating deterioration into April.

Bitcoin (BTC) is up again this week, after a small retracement last week. On April 2, 2019, Bitcoin broke out of its bear market channel. We officially called the start of the new crypto bull market.

It was hardly a catastrophic loss but it wasn't a gain either. The S&P 500 gave up a couple points in last week's action, with the weight of the incredible gains seen since late December clearly keeping many would-be buyers on the sidelines.

The Australian Dollar endured some divergent economic indicators last week but in the coming sessions is likely to focus on only one domestic marker- inflation.

F.O.M.O. or the “Fear Of Missing Out” is the biggest detractor to long-term portfolio performance over time. It is also one of the biggest emotional inputs into the “buy high/sell low” problem for most investors.

It just won't end: nearly four months after the Christmas Eve massacre which saw the S&P briefly dip into a bear market, professional investors just refuse to buy it... literally.

The Asian stock market presents another opportunity for you as a trader. Whether it’s right for you depends on a lot of factors.

GrubHub Inc (NYSE:GRUB) was in 23 hedge funds’ portfolios at the end of the fourth quarter of 2018. GRUB investors should be aware of a decrease in enthusiasm from smart money recently.

It's not enough to just buy stocks setting up well, or know the direction of the stock market. You need to know the sectors and industries that are driving the stock market higher or lower, which to trade and which to be avoided at all costs.

Ethereum went through a rollercoaster ride in the last 15 months. It showed periods of relative strength and weakness, but to a larger degree than most big cryptocurrencies. Now it sits at the intersection of two major and structural chart patterns.

The first secular bull market that I experienced in my career, was the 1982/2000 secular bull market. I can assure you that most of the upturn, save the very end stage (the ‘I love stocks for the long-term’ stage), was met with extreme skepticism.

We provide a thumbnail sketch of six events that will command attention. Two major central banks meet and two big data points (US Q1 GDP and Australia Q1 GDP). There are two official events as the UK Parliament returns from the vacation and Brexit.

I used to be of the view that suggested that buybacks were just another way of distributing to shareholders - a bit like dividends, selectively applied. But companies can impair themselves with buybacks in ways that you just couldn't with dividends.

Hutchison China MediTech filed to IPO on the Hong Kong Exchange, following listings in London and on NASDAQ, where it has a market capitalization of over $4 billion. The IPO is expected to raise between $300 million and $500 million.

The week of April 24 will be a monster week for earnings with some of the biggest companies reporting results. So here we go with the top four predictions.

Stocks pitched at investment conferences aren’t necessarily the “best” stock picks of hedge funds as they sell them stocks afterward to create room for their real best ideas. However, these stocks still outperformed the market by an average of 7%.

Where is the price of crude oil headed in 2019? Is there a reliable crude oil price forecast for the rest of 2019? This article has a surprising answer to the crude oil price forecast question which certainly does not align with a consensus view.