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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…
Bryan Rich: A week from last Friday, as I worked through the longer term charts on global markets, the EURUSD had made an impressive break above a sideways range that had developed since early Read more…
Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: Speaking with Yahoo Breakout, Euro Pacific Capital CEO Peter Schiff chastised the Federal Reserve for maintaining ultra-low interest rates at the expense of retirees. 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…
Richard Rittorno: The EUR/USD currency pair remained under pressure in overnight trading and is in striking distance of 2011 low from January at 1.2870. Rumor on the street a large institutional is defending the 1.2900 level in an effort to avoid a few million U.S. dollar payout. Read more…
Tim Seymour: If Santa is coming for the emerging markets, he had better load up on bullish sentiment, because the trend is starting to look like it did over the summer — and August was anything but a “Santa rally.” Read more…
Chris Ciovacco: The correlation between the S&P 500 (NYSEARCA:SPY) and the euro (NYSEARCA:FXE) has been running extremely high in recent months. Therefore, if the euro can mount a sustained charge higher, stocks could do the same. Read more…
Martin Hutchinson: If 2011 taught us one thing, it’s that currency investing can be a dangerous business. For instance, the euro (NYSEARCA:FXE) - the simplest of hedges against a declining dollar (NYSEARCA:UUP) and the U.S. Federal Reserve’s expansive monetary policy – has run into difficulties Read more…
Jack Crooks: This week global central banks announced a coordinated effort to inject liquidity into credit markets. Read more…
Stoyan Bojinov: Equity markets have taken investors for a wild ride over the past three months with chaotic trading dominating virtually every nook and corner of Wall Street. Amidst the volatility, investors have been seeking out refuge and fleeing to “safer” asset classes; although rational, this approach inevitability Read more…
Jack Crooks: I keep thinking that any day now the Australian dollar will take a dirt nap. It took one back in mid-2008, falling a stunning 39 percent in just three months in the midst of the credit crunch. This shows just how vulnerable the Aussie can be to a growth accident that slams the world economy; it Read more…
Richard Rittorno: The market is opening slightly down into the new week in a hangover stemming from what is now been dubbed “Europe’s Grand Plan.”
The “Grand Plan” to address Read more…
Richard Rittorno: The absence of significant news on the U.S. monetary policy front has left gold to take direction from the trajectory of the U.S. dollar.
Traders are weighing their safe haven positions and vice versa in front of Europe’s “grand plan.” Read more…
Richard Rittorno: The U.S. dollar rose against many major currencies as investors fled stocks on fears sparked by the U.S. Federal Reserve, and signs of a slowdown of industrial production in China. Read more…
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