The MF Global Research team provides its outlook for the markets in June in its “Monthly Makets Monitor.” The report covers interest rate products, commodities, foreign exchange, money market conditions, and U.S. and  European equities. Some of the report’s highlights are below. Read the full June reprt from MF Global. If you’d like to see more [...]

Get a global outlook for all the major markets in May from the team at MF Global Research. The “Global Markets Monitor” covers commodities, fixed income, currencies, stock indexes and money market instruments in both the U.S. and U.K. Some highlights from the energy and metals sector are below. Read the full report. Energy One [...]

The MF Global Research team provides its outlook for the markets in March in its “Monthly Global Markets Monitor.” The report covers interest rate products, foreign exchange, money market conditions, and U.S. and  European equities. Some of the report’s highlights are below. Read the full Monthly Global Markets Monitor for March 2011. If you’d like [...]

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Comments on the July Employment report from Nick Kalivas, Vice President of Financial Research with MF Global Research: Stocks poke below the 200 day moving average. This is sparking technical selling. The first hold did not seem to work. The market is also dancing around unchanged on the year. The labor market is unimpressive. Growth [...]

MF Global Research just released its “2010 Financial Market Outlook” as well as an extensive paper titled, “10 Macro Themes For 2010.”  You can sign up for a free two-week trial to receive MF Global’s outstanding services and view the full research pieces.  A brief excerpt of its Macro Themes paper is given below. The [...]

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke delivers his semi-annual testimony to Congress on Tuesday. MF Global Research Senior Interest Rate and Equity Market Analyst Nick Kalivas offers his outlook in his daily research notes. Thinking about Bernanke’s Testimony The Fed Chairman is likely to make statements which are consistent with the consensus economic view.  His comments [...]

In his morning agricultural market notes, MF Global Research Director Rich Feltes said while lower crude oil, a higher dollar and the CRB’s break below its 200 DMA may be pointing to early weakness for grains, the “bottom line” is that the downside is likely limited. “Fund money still coming in and eastern planting delays [...]

Report by MF Global Research Analyst Phil Stanley this morning on how the swine flu epidemic has impacted pork producers. CME on pork—hog price plunge so far costs US hog producers nearly $5 mil The industry is still fighting to get the message out that the virus is not transmitted through pork. Secretary of Agriculture [...]

Hedge fund liquidations have pulled down stocks and commodities alike. They are now sitting on some cash, and that may help the stock market find its legs, said MF Global Research Senior Interest Rate and Equity Analyst Nick Kalivas (See a sample of his 11/17 morning comments below). Sign up for full access to MF Global Research’s daily market comments [...]