Market Overview

The euro edged up to $1.3129 on Tuesday morning after sinking last week due to a stronger dollar.After huge gains following the US Federal Reserve's announcement that it would begin to taper its...

Futures Bounce On Renewed Stimulus HopesU.S. equity futures rose in early pre-market trade on renewed hopes of monetary stimulus in the U.S. as two Fed Presidents reiterated that tapering does not...

The recent increase in sovereign spreads in the periphery does not reflect a deterioration in fundamentals. The economic outlook for euro area periphery countries has actually showed some sign of...

Market movers todayThe most important release today is the U.S. durable goods orders. We expect a relatively weak report. The volatile headline might increase, but durable goods orders excluding...

There are five key mistakes that most new traders and a vast majority of experienced traders make:Insufficient Risk managementLack of Cohesive StrategyOver leverage of CapitalUnsuitable...

A number of factors have helped stabilize the capital markets today. A partial recovery of US equities helped, though it took a nearly full recovery of the Shanghai Composite from an initial 5.5%+...

EUR/USD Today’s support: - 1.3086 and 1.3053(main), where correction is possible. Break would give 1.3027, where correction also may be. Then follows 1.3003. Break of the latter would result in...

The Japanese Yen rose against the Dollar and other major currencies after a series of declines by the Japanese currency during the last period, due to the large amount of investors buying the Japanese...

After dropping as low as 14551 overnight, the DOW staged a recovered and pared back much of the losses to close at 14659, down -139.84. Comments from Fed officials Fisher and Kocherlakota helped eased...

Today’s data is U.S. heavy, with three housing-related statistics and the week’s main event, durable goods orders. Markets are probably eyeing the end of the week for more speeches from...

Do you want to know the primary reason why rapidly rising interest rates could take down the entire global financial system? Most people might think that it would be because the U.S. government would...

The TIPS market has told an interesting story the past month. The implied inflation rate has collapsed. As of this morning, the market is pricing inflation at 1.94%%. A few month ago it was 2.5%. The...

Most of the focus lately has been on the weakness in U.S. and Asian equity markets. Rightfully so, I suppose. However, these are not the only markets under pressure.Our neighbors to the north,...

Originally published in Investment Contrarians on June 20, 2013. Debt is deadly, and it’s made even worse with rising interest rates that can prevent you from eliminating the load. What happens...