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Michael Snyder: The global financial system is not a game of checkers. It is a game of chess. All over the world today, news headlines are proclaiming that this new Greek debt deal has completely eliminated the possibility of a chaotic Greek debt default. Unfortunately, that is simply not the case. Read more…
Michael Snyder: What in the world is going on in Europe (NYSEArca:VGK)? Each day things just seem to get stranger and stranger. We are being told that a “deal” for a second Greek bailout has been reached and that Greece will not default in March. But behind the scenes it seems clear that many politicians Read more…
Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: Wonder why European leaders appear more like a rotating cast of bumbling 3 Stooges than a team of coordinated fraternal bureaucrats throughout the debt crisis in Read more…
Michael Snyder: Any financial system that is based on debt is doomed to fail. Today, we are living in the greatest debt bubble that the world has ever seen, and if all of a sudden people could not use credit to buy things our economy would immediately ground to a halt. Unfortunately, no debt bubble can last Read more…
Chris Ciovacco: Germany has been a leader of the global rally in risk assets off the December 2011 lows. Sustained weakness in the Germany ETF (NYSEArca:EWG) and the German DAX Index may foreshadow a correction in the S&P 500. Therefore, it is prudent to monitor German stocks over the Read more…
Jared Cummans: Yet another earnings season has passed by and left us with plenty to talk about. Unfortunately, blue chip statements will no longer dominate markets, leaving us more vulnerable to news from the flailing euro zone, as evidenced by Friday’s trading day. For the next few months, investors Read more…
Jack Crooks: If you are wondering why the euro (NYSEArca:FXE) rallied sharply over the last couple of weeks, hitting a two-month high against the dollar (NYSEArca:UUP) on Thursday, the answer is that Read more…
Jeff Harding: We need to follow Greece because their default and withdrawal from the eurozone (NYSEArca:VGK) would set off major consequences to the European Monetary Union, and thus the EU, Read more…
Stoyan Bojinov: Stock markets enjoyed yet another day in green territory as investors rejoiced over encouraging economic data on the home front. The latest jobless claims report gave the bulls a reason to rally after the figure came in better-than-expected; the number of people who filed for unemployment Read more…
Chris Ciovacco: Even the early stages of new bull markets experience corrections. After surging off the March 2009 lows, the weekly chart of the S&P 500 (NYSEArca:SPY) experienced what is known as a “perfected sell setup” in DeMark speak. Following the sell setup signal in early June 2009, the S&P 500 Read more…
Michael Snyder: If the global economy is not heading for a recession, then why is global shipping slowing down so dramatically? Many economists believe that measures of global shipping such as the Baltic Dry Index are leading economic indicators. In other words, they change before the overall Read more…
Richard Rittorno: As the euro zone continues to scrabble to fix the Greek debt crisis, analysts have started fretting over whether Portugal may fail to manage its own cripplingly high borrowing rates. But there are great babies being thrown out with the bathwater. Read more…
Martin Hutchinson: Forget about lost decades. Forecasts that we’ll be turning Japanese couldn’t be further from the truth. Here’s why. It’s simple, really. Deflation is not in the interest of anybody in power, so it’s very unlikely to happen. Read more…
Michael Snyder: An economic nightmare is descending on Europe. With each passing month, the economic numbers across Europe get even worse. At this point it is becoming extremely difficult for Read more…
Adrian Ash: Take record-high debt, add record-low interest rates, and what do you get in gold…? SECOND ONLY to Japan, the UK (NYSEArca:EWU) now wears the greatest debt burden of any major economy today – in total, more than 5 years’ entire economic output. Read more…
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