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Jim Trippon: On the last trading day in June, the Shanghai Composite Index rose smartly with a 29.59 point surge to hit 2,25.43. The 1.35 percent increase on the day for the trading average was a bit of good news in a market that has been desultory for much Read more…
EconMatters: Spain (NYSEARCA:EWP) formally became the fourth country to ask for bailout aid from the euro zone on Monday, June 25. Spain’s short-term Read more…
Japanese companies have a problem. Several of them, in fact. Their nation’s fiscal situation, in many ways, is worse than that of Greece or Spain. (Debt as a percentage of GDP, for example, is more than 225%.) The Japanese economy is growing at an anemic Read more…
Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: As the sovereign debt crisis in Europe dominates media coverage of both financial and main street news, Washington’s deliberate cover up of a far more serious Read more…
Jared Cummans: After another choppy week of trading, investors will be on their toes for the coming week, as a number of factors have created high anxiety in the financial world. Perhaps the biggest piece of news is the threat of Greece exiting the euro, Read more…
Stoyan Bojinov: Stocks plunged lower on Tuesday as investors expressed their concerns over the ongoing parliamentary elections in the debt burdened currency bloc overseas. Uncertainty levels intensified after Greece failed to form a Read more…
Stoyan Bojinov: Innovation remains a dominant and exciting theme in the ETF universe, although as with any financial instrument, with growth and evolution also comes increasing complexity and newly discovered nuances. The towering lineup of over 1,400 exchange-traded products is probably intimidating for Read more…
Michael Snyder: What happens when debt-fueled false prosperity disappears? Just look at Spain (NYSEARCA:EWP). The 4th largest economy in Europe (NYSEARCA:VGK) was riding high during the Read more…
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About a decade after Japan’s bubble burst, I was having a cool San Miguel beer with a leading money manager at the Hong Kong Jockey Club. We were discussing the rise of China and whether Japan could snap out of its slump, when my Read more…
Tony Sagami: The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, may have brought the U.S. into war against the Japanese, but Japan had been waging war against much of Asia for a decade before Read more…
Jeff Harding: The OECD just came out with its “Interim Assessment” of the major economies within the OECD (34 countries). This article amounts to what is known on the blogosphere as “chart porn” since most of the data comes in the form of … charts. Personally I think “chartocopia” is a better term. Read more…
Stocks recovered from significant early losses to finish the day mixed, and well off session lows. Four of the five major indices closed lower on the day but escaped distribution due to the intraday reversal. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (NYSEARCA:DIA) was the strongest index on the day. Read more…
The investment surprise of 2012 so far isn’t the orderly Greek default, the sudden sell-off in U.S. Treasury bonds, or even the big move up in the Dow. It’s the astonishing outperformance of Japan, a market that’s even topping highflyers like China, Korea and Read more…
Randall Mah: The International Monetary Fund has officially agreed to pay $36.7 billion to Greece, bringing the debt-ridden country’s second bailout total to $170 billion. The move was expected after the country’s successful debt swap last week. Read more…
Keith Fitz-Gerald: Like it has been for other Japanese families, this past year has been a tough one in my household, too. Perhaps not surprisingly, Sunday’s one-year anniversary brought long-buried emotions to the surface 12 months to the day after the horrific earthquake and the tsunami it spawned Read more…
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