Introduction: Options can provide an alternative approach to the traditional buy and hold strategy. Buying call options can add value to one’s portfolio via leveraging a small am...
After opening the day marginally higher, stock markets in India witnessed buying interest and went on to scale their record-high levels. Sectoral indices are trading on a positiv...
Consider how a “balanced portfolio” yielding “balanced returns” worked out for middle-class retirees in Venezuela. The fantasy that a “balanced portfo...
USDCAD broke above 1.3039 resistance. Further rally is still possible and next target would be at 1.3096 key resistance, a breakout of this level would indicate that the downside m...
This week: Extremes in speculative futures positioning in stocks vs bonds USD becoming a crowded trade and what this means for the outlook EM risk pricing relief rally drivers and...
After a blistering May, revolving credit fell 0.2% in June as overall credit continued its upward march. Bloomberg reports Consumer Credit in U.S. Rose Less Than Estimated in June...
During the decade of the seventies, there was an opening. The Bretton Woods system had largely failed in 1960, but gold exchange lingered onward until August of 1971. Long before P...
Crude oil and gold prices echoed price swings in the US Dollar yesterday. Both commodities edged up in the first half of the day as the greenback corrected lower after the prior...
AUDUSD’s bounce from 0.7348 extended to as high as 0.7439. Further rise is still possible in a couple of days and next target would be at 0.7483 resistance. Near-term support is ...
Asian equities are higher today as Japanese and Hong Kong shares show gains. The Nikkei 225 is up 0.4% while the Hang Seng is up 0.2%. The Shanghai Composite is trading down b...