Concerns over the tapering of the US Federal Reserve’s (Fed) five-year quantitative easing (QE) program, designed to stimulate the US economy in the wake of the 2007 Great Recession, appear to be steadily gaining momentum. While Fed chairman Ben Bernanke had already voiced plans of tapering...
Nike ( NKE , quote ) is taking emerging markets growth and it shows in the stock price. Recently on Fast Money we were asked to talk about stocks we would buy on a pullback and to discuss levels.
Nike is a stock that fits the bill perfectly. Earlier this week, Nike has been down for 5...
When I first visited Calcutta in 1976, more than 800,000 people were sleeping on the sidewalks, I was hauled everywhere by a very lean, barefoot rickshaw driver, and drinking the water out of a tap was tantamount to committing suicide. Some 36 years later, and the subcontinent is poised to overtake China’s white hot growth rate.
JGB Futures prices are dropping in a manner eerily reminiscent of the May period of debacle before the BoJ started to regain control. The catalyst for today's biggest bond price drop in 3 months is Takatoshi Ito's comments demanding the Government Pension fund starting greatly rotating from bonds to stocks:
Thursday was important to currency traders on the account of central banks. Both the ECB...d the BOE had their regular policy meetings, always potential market moving events. Even though expectations were low to none for action by either of them, markets often respond in strange ways to these...
Use of crypto currencies, such as bitcoin, cannot be stopped by centralized authority absent total shutdown of the internet. Bitcoin is peer to peer, meaning that if part of the network is destroyed, or shut down, then the bitcoin network will still function, just as the internet designers contemplated when they designed it to withstand nuclear war.
Chris Vermeulen: My trading partner JW and I had a great talk...e other day which spurred to...e creation of...is interesting and educational gold futures trading article we wanted to share with you. Throughout most of 2013, gold futures have been under major selling pressure. Gold opened...
While U.S. fighter jets muscle their way into East China Sea air space suddenly claimed by China ( FXI , quote ) and Russia ( RSX , quote )continues to threaten the European Union and U.S. for meddling in their affairs within their sphere of influence (former Soviet states) China decides to...
Another currency pair showing a long and impressive trend is the AUD-NZD. The commodity currencies are not moving in accord, and Aussie has been falling versus the Kiwi for over two years now. During this time, the exchange rate dropped by over 2600 pips, which is a huge swing for this pair,...