Markets had a fairly strong Globex session on Sunday. The NQ made an additional high which I have noted as the completion point for the minuette 3rd wave.

West Texas Intermediate (WTI), the US crude oil benchmark, is trading around $67.90 on Tuesday. The WTI price recovers amid the rising geopolitical tensions in the Middle East after the downfall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. 

EUR/USD trimmed its stance slightly on Monday, easing back away from the 1.0600 handle after facing a technical rejection from the key level last week.

As caution sweeps across the trading floors, investors meticulously trim positions in stocks and bonds, bracing for the pivotal economic updates ahead

The BLS labor data had a chance to show that October's weakness really was just a combination of one-off factors, instead did everything to confirm that it wasn't those at all.

Bears ultimately won out, but it was not Semiconductors that suffered, but the Russell 2000 ($IWM) instead.

The S&P 500 had its worst day in three weeks as it drifted lower by more than 0.5%.

In the big picture, Argentina’s problems is overly large budget deficits.

While several ETFs are poised for solid gains, these five ETFs look to benefit the most from the annual shopping event.

U.S. rates are running a tad scared ahead of Tuesday’s CPI report.

VIX ticked upward slightly but there was no real fear in the markets today.

The Nasdaq took triple digits off Friday's record close, while the Dow clocked its third-straight triple-digit loss.

China probes Nvidia’s Mellanox deal over potential antitrust violations.

Expanding credit or printing money does not create economic value, but buys time.

Global adoption of the world’s largest digital asset by market cap is getting harder to ignore.

A number of Korean stocks are worth buying at current levels.

The implied volatility of at-money SPX options has plummeted even faster than the below-market options.

If the Fed were to adopt even “steeper rate cuts” than seen in the recent past, despite the robust NGDP growth, there would be a very real risk of inflation re-accelerating.Inflation is unpopular.

Since July, only 7,000 goods producing jobs have been added, or only a .03% increase. In the past 8 months, only 39,000 goods producing jobs have been added, an increase of .18%.

We look at falling German IP contrasted with rising German DAX, market concentration stuff, Call vs. Puts in the 98th percentile, supportive internals, weak labor data, a long Ag trade, and a pitch for cheap protection.