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EconMatters: The EUR/USD index edged up to 1.2533 on Wednesday, U.S. 4th of July holiday Wednesday in subdued markets ahead of the ECB rate decision to be announced on Thursday. As expected, ECB officials meeting in Frankfurt will cut benchmark Read more…
Michael Snyder: If you knew that you could live in luxury for the rest of your life but that by doing so it would absolutely destroy the future for your children, your grandchildren and your great- Read more…
Stoyan Bojinov: Domestic equity indexes started off in the gutter on Tuesday so to speak after the latest housing market data sparked a wave of profit taking across Wall Street. Investors fretted over worse-than-expected housing starts in February; this figure came in at 698,000 versus the previous Read more…
Mac Slavo: In a recent micro-documentary Chris Duane of The Greatest Truth Never Told and Don’t Tread On Me discusses the coming collapse of our debt-based monetary system and provides a simple, yet succinct argument for why it cannot be prevented. Read more…
Stoyan Bojinov: Stocks bounced back higher on Wednesday as investors took the opportunity to scoop up beaten down securities on the cheap following Tuesday’s massive sell-off. With no news headlines from the Euro zone, trading was quite tame on Tuesday as investors turned to the FOMC decision on the Read more…
Chris Ciovacco: As we noted on November 1, a rally back toward 1,250 is well within bear market bounds. How we rally (volume, conviction, etc.) will tell us quite a bit about the odds of a more lasting upside move in stocks. We also outlined in a recent video reasons why the improvement in market breadth does Read more…
Tony Sagami: Before it was just the Obama administration, but now, just about everyone who is running in the 2012 Presidential race is jumping on the anti-China (NYSE:FXP) bandwagon. Read more…
Chris Vermeulen: I am not one to discuss fundamentals or macro views, but this situation in Europe is beginning to morph into a media frenzy. Price action in the marketplace is changing rapidly in short periods of time based on the latest press releases coming from the Eurozone summit. Read more…
Stoyan Bojinov: Good news from the Euro zone lifted investor’s spirits on Monday as equity markets cheered on agreement talks aimed at restoring financial stability in the debt-burdened country bloc. Earnings results from Caterpillar boosted domestic equity indexes higher after the construction giant Read more…
J.W. Jones: If Greece defaults and the European situation begins to spin out of control where will money flow? It would not make sense for market participants to buy Euro’s during a default regardless of whether the default it structured or not. In fact, it is more likely that European central banks and businesses Read more…
Chris Ciovacco: On October 20, we outlined several divergences and hurdles for the stock market to overcome. Since silver has more real world uses than gold (NYSE:GLD), silver tends to be a good economic barometer, similar to copper. As we have mentioned in the past, silver tends to be in greater demand Read more…
Chris Vermeulen: In May of 2010, immediately following the flash crash many investors started to become bearish (nervous) regarding their position in gold and equities. Once the general public became Read more…
Martin Hutchinson: Think U.S. jobs are destined to drain away to China (NYSE:FXI) forever? Think U.S. unemployment will grow and grow while cheap overseas labor supplants American workers? Think your children will be forced to work selling Big Macs to Chinese billionaires? Read more…
Michael Johnston: September was one of the worst months in years for global equity markets. Volatility swept throughout every corner of the financial markets as escalating Euro zone debt woes worried investors of an impending crisis. Investor confidence has been slowly eroding given the concerning global Read more…
J.W. Jones: A lot of eyes were watching the Slovakian Parliament around the closing bell today as they voted on the European Financial Stability Fund (EFSF). The first vote failed to pass the pending legislation, but members of the opposition party have indicated that they will vote for the bill in a second scheduled vote. Read more…
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