EUR/USD finally burst out of range and rallied very nicely. Is there more in store? GDP figures stand out this week. Here is an outlook for the highlights of this week and an up...
by Benn Steil — co-authored with Emma Smith How the Fed Should Tighten Monetary Policy On January 27, the U.S. Federal Reserve held interest rates steady and, in a modest no...
Plenty of earnings reports are still to come, but the Q4 reporting cycle is past its peak, with results from 62% of the S&P 500 members already out. With 68 index members repor...
K.I.S.S. – Keep It Simple Stupid – An acronym used in the US military; a design principle; unnecessary complexity should be avoided. The acronym KISS is just another way of exp...
By Sol Palha (tacticalinvestor.com) Is this economic recovery real? Well, if you base your observations on how far the Dow has risen since the financial crisis of 2008 the answer...
Instead of “Yes we can,” many Democrats have adopted a new slogan this election year: “We shouldn’t even try.” We shouldn’t try for single-payer system, they say. We’...
Last week, we talked about support and resistance – both of which drive the technical study of the financial markets. Let’s expand on this theory by introducing another key tec...
Iran enjoys trolling the United States. In fact, it’s something of hobby for the Ayatollah, who has maintained the country’s semi-official “death to America” slogan even as...
This week’s moves have put the Bank of Canada, and CAD traders in a precarious position. From the Bank of Canada’s position, you have a stronger currency as the CAD continued...