The Fed is pumping billions into the economy every month, hoping to inflate it. From a stock-market perspective, many key index's are at all-time-high levels.Is the Fed inflating stocks? Many would ...
Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke testifies before the Joint Economic Committee of Congress on Wednesday. The market is anxious for the Chairman to weigh in on recent comments suggesting that even ...
The Netherlands is one of the 'core' countries of the euro area, but for the past two years domestic growth has been weak and outlook is quite fragile. Confidence is low, euro area exports will be ...
US equities are hovering around all-time highsCore yields are grinding higher while spread compression continues in peripheralsFocus today on Fed speakers and in Scandinavia on Swedish unemployment ...
Consumer prices rose in April by 0.2% over the month, but CPI inflation decreased for the first time since September 2012 (to 2.4%). It may increase in the coming months. However inflation should ...
The euro traded steadily below $1.29 on Tuesday morning as investors took comfort in successful bond auctions throughout the eurozone and positive reassurance about Italy's new coalition government. ...
Although far from anything resembling a correction, the markets ended Monday’s trading session barely in the red on the back of a weak dollar and gold that started the day sharply lower but ...
A reality check for "Abenomics" is scheduled today via the monthly update on Japan’s All Industry Activity Index, a broad measure of economic output. The market will be keenly focused on how the...
Asian SessionAsian markets pulled back from their winning streak and closed mixed today, with some minor losses. Investors took their hint from Wall Street which also closed with mild losses, as talks...
CurrenciesEUR/USD- the pair is trading within the symmetrical triangle on a 30 minute time frame. The price has broken its downward trend line.USD/JPY- the price action is trading within the ...
EUR/USD Today’s support: - 1.2858 and 1.2838(main), where correction is possible. Break would give 1.2803, where correction also may be. Then follows 1.2780. Break of the latter would result in...
The dollar is a bit softer this week as it consolidates broadly. Chicago Fed Evans said the Fed's policies are "working" and that the U.S. economy "seems to be performing quite well". He's optimistic ...
The Australian Dollar has hit a ceiling of 0.9787 and retreated to 0.9757 at the time of writing. The steady slow down and decrease in demand is being attributed to the upcoming Reserve Bank of ...
Sound the alarm! We’re witnessing another real estate bubble.At least, that’s what the mainstream financial press wants to scare us into believing.A recent Bloomberg article, entitled ...
On its risk appetite index, Credit Suisse views the index value of 5 as "euphoria". And we are headed there, as markets embrace risk.This is not surprising given where credit markets are trading. As ...
Earnings from several retailers are a highlight Tuesday, but traders will keep their focus on anything to do with the Fed.The CEOs of Apple and J.P. Morgan are both in the hot seat for different ...
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Charles Evans said the U.S. economy has improved “quite a lot” as the central bank maintains record stimulus and expressed confidence policy ...
| SPX 500 Futures | 1,668.45 | +2.95 | +0.18% | |||
| NQ 100 Futures | 3,026.70 | +5.20 | +0.17% | |||
| US 30 | 15,387.00 | +52.30 | +0.34% | |||
| DAX | 8,458.00 | -14.20 | -0.17% | |||
| FTSE 100 | 6,795.00 | -8.87 | -0.13% | |||
| Japan 225 | 15,656.00 | +246.24 | +1.6% | |||
| US Dollar Index | 83.95 | +0.03 | +0.03% |
| Gold | 1,385.95 | +8.35 | +0.61% | |||
| Silver | 22.587 | +0.132 | +0.59% | |||
| Copper | 3.402 | +0.059 | +1.76% | |||
| Crude Oil | 95.69 | -0.49 | -0.51% | |||
| Natural Gas | 4.207 | +0.015 | +0.35% | |||
| US Cotton No.2 | 84.70 | +0.83 | +1.00% | |||
| US Coffee C | 132.23 | -0.50 | -0.38% |
| Euro Bund | 144.82 | +0.13 | +0.09% | |||
| Euro BTP | 116.37 | +0.08 | +0.07% | |||
| Euro BOBL | 126.486 | +0.060 | +0.05% | |||
| UK Gilt | 117.81 | +0.20 | +0.17% | |||
| US 2 YR T-Note | 110.27 | +0.01 | +0.01% | |||
| US 10 YR T-Note | 132.04 | +0.03 | +0.02% | |||
| US 30 YR T-Bond | 144.45 | +0.09 | +0.06% |
| Central Banks | Interest Rates | Next Meeting | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FED | 0.00%-0.25% | Jun 19, 2013 | |||
| ECB | 0.50% | Jun 06, 2013 | |||
| BOE | 0.50% | Jun 06, 2013 | |||
| SNB | 0.00% | Jun 20, 2013 | |||
| RBA | 2.75% | Jun 04, 2013 | |||
| BOC | 1.00% | May 29, 2013 | |||
| RBNZ | 2.50% | Jun 12, 2013 | |||
| BOJ | 0.10% | May 22, 2013 | |||
