From Vern Gowdie on the Gold Coast: Over the weekend Richard Holden, a professor of economics at the UNSW Australia Business School wrote an article inThe Weekend Australian titled ‘Economy like a car in need of a tune-up...
Forecast Bank of New Zealand on EUR / USD, USD / JPY, GBP / USD, AUD / USD, iNZD / USD. As we can see from the table Bank of New Zealand prefers dollar. We see from the table the gradual strengthening of the role of the US dollar relative to other currencies. P.S. my Published products...
The EUR/USD is poised to close the week at its lowest level in almost 10 years, following a tricky US employment report: the headlines had been for the most outstanding, albeit wages ticked lower, anticipating some poor inflation readings for next week...
The Nikkei 225, more commonly called the Nikkei, the Nikkei index, or the Nikkei Stock Average, is a stock market index for the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). It has been calculated daily by the Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Nikkei) newspaper since 1950...
Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) is an Indian stock exchange located at Mumbai, Maharashtra, India...
The FTSE Straits Times Index (STI) is a capitalisation-weighted stock market index that is regarded as the benchmark index for the Singapore stock market. It tracks the performance of the top 30 companies listed on the Singapore Exchange...
By Bill Bonner in London, England A man puts a single bullet in a revolver and spins the chamber. He puts the gun to his head. He pulls the trigger. Nothing happens. He spins the chamber again. Gawkers watch. Speculators take bets on whether he will live or die. Again, the man pulls the trigger...
The Hang Seng Index (abbreviated: HSI) is a freefloat-adjusted market capitalization-weighted stock market index in Hong Kong...
Euro forecast Euro continues to remain under pressure as ECB (European Central Bank) is quite determined to pump more cash in the Eurozone. Current Euro exchange rate – 1 EUR = 0.7837 GBP and 1 GBP = 1.2770 EUR 1 EUR = 1.2516 USD...
It could finally be the year that ordinary Americans feel like the economy is working for them. The forecast for the U.S. economy in 2015 is positively rosy, and it could finally spur bigger wage gains for more workers...
The euro can't seem to catch a break, starting 2015 with a drop to a nine-year low against the U.S. dollar as the timetable for central bank action appears to step up amid a storm of other negatives for the common currency...
We can't predict the future - if it were possible fortune tellers would all win the lottery. They don't, we can't and we aren't going to try to. However, we can analyze what has happened in the past, weed through the noise of the present and try to discern the possible outcomes of the future...
Problems: the gifts that make us dig out and figure out who we are, what we're made for and what we're responsible for giving back to life. -Tony Robbins ...false narratives you concoct to rationalize what is happening as way to get through your professional day...
The USD/JPY pair had a massive move higher during the course of the back half of 2014, probably more so than acceptable...
Positioning analysis conducted by the exchange rates team at BNP Paribas show there is scope for euro weakness and dollar strength in early 2015...
US DOLLAR TECHNICAL ANALYSIS Prices flat-lined after hitting a five-year high, with negative RSI divergence warning a downturn may be ahead. Near-term resistance is at 11577, the 38.2% Fibonacci expansion, with a break above that on a daily closing basis exposing the 50% level at 11648...
Income investors feasted in 2014. This year, the menu is decidedly less attractive, but not unpalatable...
The EUR/USD pair initially tried to rally during the beginning of the month of December, but you can see that the 1.25 level offered enough resistance to turn the market back around. That being the case, we ended up falling from that area and crashing through the 1.22 level...
The EUR/USD pair has fallen quite drastically during most of the year for 2014, and although I think it’s still pretty bearish, you can see that I have a blue line on the chart near the 1.2050 region...
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The U.S. economy finally got a big jolt of energy in 2014 after the lamest recovery since World War II. And 2015 is shaping up to be an even better year...
