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The Chicago Fed's National Activity Index, which I reported on yesterday, is based on 85 economic indicators drawn from four broad categories of data:Production and Income Employment, Unemployment and...

CurrenciesEUR/USD – The pair continues to trade under the 1.34 level and has remained within a 1% trading range since the opening of trading on Sunday evening. Bank Holidays in France and the US...

Bitcoins have been in the news a good deal lately, and they get there in ways that suggest they are poised to impact the world of alpha and its pursuers. So it’s good to have a primer: a brief...

Cisco (CSCO) is no longer the high-earning technology company that it used to be. In the fourth quarter of the last earnings calendar, guidance was weak and because of a bad global economic climate,...

The euro rose against the dollar for the first time since the single currency briefly touched an eight-week low last Thursday. Norway’s krone erased a decline versus the dollar as Consumer price...

One of the biotechs of 2013 that continues to hold its ground is Ohr Pharmaceutical (OHRP) – a company that is best known for its Squalamine eye drops which are being developed as a treatment...

A number of capital issues will need to be resolved before the government's planned share sale of the part-nationalised (Royal Bank Scotland Group Plc, (RBS) can go ahead. This is the view of James...

Last week, the ECB shocked the markets with a surprise interest rate cut. According to Bloomberg, just 3 out of 70 economists expected such a move. Only the Bank of America, UBS and the Royal Bank of...

"Economic Activity Slightly Improved": This is the headline for today's release of the Chicago Fed's National Activity Index for September. The index is positive for the second consecutive month after...

I had a conversation with a colleague of mine yesterday about the role of banks, the relative importance of QE/The Wealth Effect and the potential for growing distortions FIVE years into ZIRP/QE...

AM Analysis – “Asian stocks traded in positive territory” – Lee Mumford Asian stocks traded in positive territory for a second night as investors await a conclusion from...

Armistice Day in Europe and Veterans' Day in the US yesterday denied investors an overall theme, but today the drivers are clear: rising long-term US interest rates are taking place amid falling price...

Nearly every one realized that the Third Plenary session of the Chinese Communist Party was important. It ended today and the local markets closed and yet it will take some time for true significance...