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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…
Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: Reports of the USS Enterprise aircraft carrier battle group setting course to join battle groups USS Lincoln and Vinson in the Arabian Sea and today’s back-to-back announcements regarding the complete termination of Iran’s financial transactions through SWIFT Read more…
Tom Essaye: This week marks the one-year anniversary of the tsunami hitting Japan (NYSEArca:EWJ) and the Fukushima nuclear meltdown. Undoubtedly the country is still healing from the effects of those disasters. But recent data has shown a recovery might be underway that could provide Read more…
Chris Ciovacco: The rally off the lows of last week has some work to do before it becomes convincing. While the longer-term outlook remains favorable from a technical perspective, the conviction from buyers needs to pick up in the short-term. Read more…
Sy Harding: There was much anticipation in advance of Friday’s Labor Department employment report for February. The report has a reputation for often coming in with a big surprise in one Read more…
Jared Cummans: The global economy seems to be screeching to a halt, as the first two trading days of the week marked some of the toughest on the year. While major benchmarks have been surging for the majority of 2012, they are slated to report a loss this week, as investors continually worry over the Read more…
Chris Martenson: At the circus, you are sometimes treated to the spinning plate act where a performer tries to keep an improbable number of plates spinning at once, racing from one plate to the next as their wobbles indicate the need for another dose of momentum. Considering the number of spinning Read more…
Randall Mah: Greece’s parliament has approved the last major package of reforms needed to secure a $175 billion bailout from the European Union and International Monetary Fund, but while initial reaction from European traders was positive, the mood in Asia was mixed. Read more…
Yiannis Mostrous: Japanese stocks have long tempted value-oriented investors who hope to capitalize on the sclerotic Japanese market’s eventual turnaround. Unfortunately, those gains have proved Read more…
JR Crooks: It’s no secret that the world’s central bankers and governments are cranking out money at lightning speed to stave off a global depression. Read more…
Sy Harding: Kudos to central banks. The eurozone debt crisis produced two years of fears that it would result in financial collapse and a severe recession in Europe (NYSEArca:VGK) that would spread Read more…
Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: Gloom Boom Doom Report publisher Marc Faber was back on Fox Business, Friday, with his latest thoughts on Greece, China, stocks, U.S. real estate, and some creative Read more…
Randall Mah: Progress on a deal between Greece and its private debt holders continued to stall on Friday, as euro zone (NYSEArca:VGK) finance ministers pledged yesterday to try and agree to a Read more…
Keith Fitz-Gerald: Let’s talk Japan (NYSEArca:EWJ). Every year some analyst comes out with a variation of the story that Japan is about to rebound. Usually the argument goes something like this: Japanese markets are impossibly cheap and the central bank will be there to prevent a catastrophe. Read more…
Randall Mah: Greece began its fourth day of negotiations with its private debt holders in an attempt to reach a debt swapping deal seen as critical to avoiding a default. Meanwhile in Brussels, European Union leaders have agreed to tougher budget discipline measures designed to prevent future crises. Read more…
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