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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…
Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: As Italian bank UniCredit hangs by a thread as the potential European version of a Lehman Brothers collapse, but many more times over, one has to wonder about the timing of other seemingly unrelated events in the Persian Gulf. Read more…
Toby Connor: It seems like most analysts, and gold (NYSEARCA:GLD) bugs are now assuming that the reversal on December 29 marked the bottom of golds D-Wave decline. It’s certainly possible that we saw a bottom two weeks ago but it’s still too early to make that assumption. Gold Read more…
Jared Cummans: This week sees earnings season kick into full gear, and most companies will be trying to shake off the blow that JP Morgan delivered with light revenues on Friday. Earnings season is always a major market mover, but for the US, the past few strong earnings periods have been Read more…
Michael Snyder: The European debt crisis has just gone to an entirely new level. Just when it seemed like things may be stabilizing somewhat, we get news of huge financial bombs being dropped all over Europe (NYSEARCA:VGK). Very shortly after U.S. financial markets closed on Friday, S&P Read more…
Jonathan Yates: As reported in previous articles on www.emergingmoney.com, shaking a tin cup filled with euro bonds did not entice China, Warren Buffett or Jim Rogers into buying any of the Read more…
Sy Harding: Brazil continues to impress as a country and economy, due in no small way to its government’s multi-year efforts and determination to make it an important global presence. Read more…
Scott Martin: Traders who spent the morning selling the rumor that Standard & Poor’s would soon downgrade the sovereign credit of France are now buying the news, pushing the battered euro off its intraday lows. Read more…
Richard Rittorno: Italy’s (NYSEARCA:EWI) bond auction failed to impress and rumors of a pending France (NYSEARCA:EWQ) downgrade as quickly as this afternoon are putting huge downward pressure on the Euro. The EUR/USD slipped to a new low of 1.2625, a 17-month low, giving up the entire rally Read more…
Kevin McElroy: Everyone knows that European countries (NYSE:VGK) are broke. And many of their banks are broke too. The European financial system is tied together in a multi-cord knot pulled taut between the European Central Bank (ECB), individual country banks and commercial banks in Read more…
Michael Johnston: As most investors are painfully aware at this point, Europe is not in the best of fiscal shape at present. The continent is in the midst of a prolonged debt crisis that is now threatening the continued existence of the euro, and has transformed the region into a form of portfolio Kryptonite Read more…
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Mike Larson: Welcome to 2012! I trust you had an enjoyable holiday season like I did … and that you’re just as ready as I am to make this your most profitable year ever. So what am I expecting? Read more…
Richard Rittorno: The U.S. dollar (NYSEARCA:UUP) has felt some pressure in recent trade against other major currencies in recent trading that can be classified as consolidation as the market looks to take a breather into the holiday week. Read more…
Russ Koesterich: Earlier this week, I noted that very elevated Italian and Spanish bond yields remain a short-term risk for both the European and global economies. Several other major European-related risks also continue to threaten markets. Read more…
David Zeiler: As European leaders celebrated a tentative agreement to accept tougher budgetary rules among its members, critics expressed doubts the plan would cure the two-year-old Eurozone debt crisis. Read more…
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