On Friday the 7th of July, the euro closed down. Before the nonfarm payrolls report was released, the rate was trading within a range of 1.1407 – 1.1427 (20 pips). There was high activity among spe...
What better way to mark the milestone with a look at a milestone in the emergence of emerging markets. We first showed this chart last year – the % share of global GDP attributable to emerging...
The great thing about financial panics is that they teach you a lot about yourself and test the boundaries of existing thought which exposes the world to yearn for new understandings. The Great Finan...
Crude oil continued to sink despite a larger-than-expected weekly US inventory drawdown as output continued to surpass outflows. The EIA reported that US production rose to 9.34 million barrels p...
Even though we don’t know precisely how the future will unfold, we know a few things: — Of the 7.5 billion humans on the planet, virtually every individual wants to enjoy a high-energy con...
Asian equity markets are mixed today. The Nikkei 225 is up 0.68%, while the Hang Seng is up 0.96%. The Shanghai Composite is trading lower by 0.29%. The US stocks ended higher on US payrolls repo...
Crude Oil Vulnerable To Further Downside; Loonie & Pound Make Significant Moves In Sentiment ?Large speculators (non-commercials) in Japanese yen futures increase bearish bets for 3rd straight wee...
There have been several articles recently proclaiming and detailing the fundamentals for gold. A few of them have some excellent points. Most of them don’t. And there have been some polite dis...
HEADLINES: +222,000 jobs added U3 unemployment rate rose +0.1% from 4.3% to 4.4% U6 underemployment rate rose +0.2% from 8.4% to 8.6% Here are the headlines on wages and the chronic heightened underem...