Markets

Dec 15, 2011 at 05:46

EUR/USD bears have continued to push lower, after a recent warning from Moody's which cited that it would review ratings for all European Union countries. Price has now broken 1.3146…

Dec 14, 2011 at 19:42

Italian yields rose again today. The take-up of the 5-year tap was not awful, but obviously less than what the market was hoping for. Meanwhile, the Treasury auctioned 30-year bonds…

Dec 14, 2011 at 19:39

If anything, the face value of this chart argues that economic government intervention makes stocks go down. There is simply no 'cause and effect' relationship between government actions and stock…

Dec 14, 2011 at 15:37

A new polysyllabic term has entered the Wall Street lexicon and is sweeping through the investing world like a brush fire through a dry canyon: "hypothecation." With its connection to…

Dec 14, 2011 at 15:22

With most of the industrialized world focusing on all things European, we thought it might be worthwhile to see just what was happening on the other side of the Ural…

Dec 14, 2011 at 12:46

Recent investor disappointment is being blamed on the Federal Reserve and the fact that it didn't announce another round of stimulus at its latest meeting. Recent market action can also…

Dec 14, 2011 at 10:04

Whatever glow there might have been from last week's European summit turned to gloom as markets turned downwards Monday. Global investors drove down everything in sight, including gold which dropped…

Dec 14, 2011 at 08:12

The original parameters used to construct the European Monetary Union were set up by the Maastricht Treaty of 1992. The Treaty on European Union contained strict limits on debt and deficits. In…

Dec 14, 2011 at 06:59

If you own stocks, you want gold and economically-sensitive silver to perform well. Weakness in precious metals is reflective of diminished concerns about future inflation and increasing concerns about deflation.

Dec 14, 2011 at 06:30

The markets have spent the best part of 6 months doing nothing but causing pain to both bulls and bears, you only have to look at the triangle formation on…