It’s important for investors to understand why it matters for many reasons, including providing investors with an updated financial standing, the volatile post-earnings share swings, and the overall picture it provides on market and broader trends.

In this video, Ira Epstein highlights the current market dynamics, including short covering in the S&P 500 after consecutive declines and rallies in energy markets due to geopolitical tensions involving Russia and Ukraine.

The last-mile grocery battlefield in the U.S. is shaping up as a two-horse race between Amazon and Walmart. There are other players, but none with the scale or firepower to compete seriously. 

Hopefully, you're enjoying another somewhat quiet day in the precious metals market. Because certainly after the chaos and volatility of the first half of the year, it feels nice to have a bit of a slower late summer afternoon.

Tech is starting to lag the market which could indicate this market has run out of the momentum it sustained off the April lows.

The USD/CAD pair loses traction to near 1.3905, snapping the three-day winning streak during the early Asian session on Friday.

USD/CHF clears the 20-day SMA of 0.8076, rises over 0.56% sponsored by mixed economic data in the US that triggered a reaction by investors, who trimmed dovish Fed bets for the upcoming September meeting.

Healthpeak Properties switched to a monthly dividend payout schedule in April 2025. This potentially makes the stock more attractive for income investors looking for more frequent dividend payouts.

A colleague asked about the iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond Buywrite Strategy ETF, which we've looked at a couple of times, although it has been a while. Yahoo shows the yield to be 10% so it's high-yielding.

In September 2019, the system creaked as the Fed had gone too far with bank reserve reduction. We're facing a similar challenge in the coming months as the Treasury replenishes its cash buffer.

U.S. President Donald Trump has kicked off a tit-for-tat tariff war, claiming that foreign tariffs against American goods harm America.

U.S. airports are operating at near-record capacity, with the top 10 alone accounting for more than a third of all domestic airline seats this summer.

If you looked at the S&P Global PMI data today, the Fed should not be cutting rates. If you looked at the Philly Fed Prices Paid Index, the same conclusion applies.

The bean market has been pounded down under $10 – due to a lack of a U.S.-China deal but non-China demand has shown up and stocks are not plentiful.

Stocks continued to wobble again, extending their declines ahead of the speech by Jay Powell tomorrow at Jackson Hole.

Technical analysis suggests a potential rebound to the psychological level of $100.

With the latest set of data, we think Fed Chair Powell may be more hawkish than expected at his Jackson Hole speech on Friday, 22 August.

There is some good news in the lumber market: contracts have plunged more than 14% in recent weeks, reversing highs last seen during the pandemic shortages.

Gold is revolution against an expiring system that is still limping along.

The Dow Jones saw its lowest figures in over a week on Thursday.