Tonight I would like to update some charts we’ve been following for a very long time in regards to the deflationary spiral that really took hold in July of 2014. With the US dollar still in correcti...
The euro-zone economy grew by 0.3% q/q in Q4 2015 and 1.5% y/y, exactly as expected. However, industrial output was very disappointing with a drop of 1% m/m and 1.3% y/y. EUR/USD continues hugging th...
Thursday saw the market swinging all day before the yen bounced from 111 by 190 points. It was a day off in Japan, so there was no comment from the BoJ. I think that the bank made an intervention thro...
Jim Grant appeared on CNBC’s Closing Bell and unhesitatingly said he thinks the US economy has already gone into recession: I think we are in one…I think there’s a defensible case to be made tha...
The Vanguard 500 Index Fund (VOO) is an index exchange trade fund. The fund is passively managed and is designed to track the investment performance of the Standard & Poor 500 market (S&P 50...
Stock markets around the world continue to collapse as this new global financial crisis picks up more steam. In the U.S., the Dow lost 254 more points on Thursday, and it has now fallen for five da...
Charts Monitor, Rather Than Dismiss Fundamental Data Critics of technical analysis often mistakenly believe that using charts discounts the importance of fundamental data, such as earnings, employment...
Donald Tusk of the European Union (EU) in Brussels, European Council president, has warned that the EU is really in danger of total collapse. He has come out and said that David Cameron’s referendum...
I woke up yesterday to see oil below $27 a barrel, the US 10-year at 1.6% and the Dow down to 15,600. How quickly the economy is faltering. It is a crazy moment. Oil below $29 a barrel creates Geo-pol...
Call the Men in the White Coats Before it’s too Late Today Sweden’s Riksbank “shocked the markets” by cutting its main refinancing rate further into negative territory, to minus 50 basis point...