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Jared Cummans: If history has been any indicator, when Ben Bernanke speaks, markets go wild. As if last week’s heavy trades weren’t enough to confirm that theory, there is even more evidence correlating to Bernanke’s speeches and movements in the U.S. dollar Read more…
Bryan Rich: The theme of the global financial markets is now moving more toward the realization that growth will be ultra-slow (if not recession like territory), unemployment will remain persistently high and global economic shocks will continue to roll through. This is an important realization. Read more…
Joseph Hogue: The Financial Times reported Tuesday that the FTSE index group has created an index of eleven currencies and two commodities for use by investors to hedge against currency and inflation Read more…
Stoyan Bojinov: Bullish fever ran wild across equity markets on Wednesday after the Fed and the central banks of the Euro zone, Canada, Japan, United Kingdom, and Switzerland agreed to collectively lower the cost of offering dollar financing through swap arrangements. The S&P 500 led the way higher, soaring Read more…
Todd Shriber: Last week, I touched on some of the basic concepts involving foreign currency ETFs and for the purposes of simplicity, I opted to focus more on examples that highlighted single-country ETFs. Single-country currency ETFs are a stark departure from multi-country equity ETFs, Read more…
Jack Barnes: In fact, as all the latest speculation about Greece either abandoning the euro currency – or being booted out of the Eurozone outright – is demonstrating, “the market” is about to apply Read more…
Tim Seymour: The latest Chinese factory numbers came in over the weekend at 52.9 — weaker than expected and well below last month. Read more…
Tim Seymour: China has very quietly let its currency appreciate exactly 5% since June 2010 and now the yuan is pushing to modern peaks. Read more…
While countries like Brazil have failed to rein in their currencies and are now being forced to both raise interest rates and suffer inflation, China and to some extent Russia are taking the opposite Read more…
“Exchange-traded funds that give investors exposure to Chinese stocks and the yuan rallied Monday, gaining after the country said it would gradually allow its currency to trade more freely Read more…
Until relatively recently, currency trading was the domain of the exotic Forex markets but now individual investors can participate in the currency and foreign exchange markets using Read more…
The Euro, currently used by 22 countries, is one of the most important world currencies. It was introduced to global financial markets in 1999 and reached major-currency status in record Read more…
Getting started in the stock market can be an overwhelming experience. The recent introduction of a new product on Wall Street known as the Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) has created Read more…
Teucrium, the Vermont-based firm behind the ultra-popular Corn Fund (NYSE:CORN) that has plans to launch several additional commodity-specific ETPs, has laid the groundwork for another 
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