Euro And Emerging Markets Plummeting
Renewed inflation concerns and undeniable unemployment pressure pushed the euro below the $1.35 USD mark and to a two-month low against the yen. Consumer price inflation fell back to 0.7 percent, a...
View ArticleData Mix Boosts Equities, Weakens USD
Better than expected news from the US Labor Department was offset by disappointing news from the Commerce Department sending equity markets higher as the dollar lost ground against major currencies....
View ArticleWeather Sinks Jobs
Weather took the blame for a second consecutive non-farm payroll report as equity investors blinked but quickly recovered leaving the dollar and bond market to shoulder the load on Friday. With...
View ArticleMarkets Blame Weather
As New York and the rest of the northeast prepared for another wintry assault, markets appreciated the strain on the economy and seemed sympathetic to soft data from the employment and consumer...
View ArticleInvestors Shift To Peripheries
Emerging markets have borne the weight of punitive flight strategies as investors ahead of the game shift away from core euro zone bonds to euro zone periphery countries that struggled mightily at the...
View ArticleMade In USA Bearing Fruit
US exports have played an unexpectedly strong part in the escape from the worst recession in history. Made in the USA is alive and well in international markets and businesses large and small are...
View ArticleAbout Trading Forex Pairs
If you are an individual Forex investor, your success will depend upon your ability to read how giant Forex traders will interpret a host of factors that affect the demand for a specific currency...
View ArticleUkraine Tensions To Persist
On Tuesday, major equity markets rallied while currencies appeared distracted by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine but Wednesday showed signs of tenuous stability. Economic factors began to take hold in...
View ArticleFlight To Safety
Tough talk at the UN and from US Secretary of State John Kerry to the US Congress, and from Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel sent uneasy tremors through global equity markets and turned Forex...
View ArticleHawkish Yellen Lifts Dollar
Janet Yellen’s voice might be softer than her predecessor’s but she carries a big stick and pres5rnnted a pro dollar stance in her first press conference that caught equity markets by surprise and...
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