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This graph seeks to show that the Fed should have been normalizing interest rates in the green area when there was the momentum of increasing aggregate profits rates...

Gold and silver prices rallied again last week but mostly at the start of the week before the FOMC released its statement, which was considered by many balanced. This week the NFP report could move gold and silver prices...

Why has the US Federal Reserve’s policy of quantitative easing been so much more successful than the version of QE implemented by the European Central Bank...

Succinct summation of the week’s events: Positives: 1) Off the lowest level since 2009, the January Chicago PMI jumps to 55.6 from 42.9. 2) US Initial jobless claims totaled 278k; 4 week average fell to 283k from 285k...

On Thursday evening, FBI Special Agent David Chaves gave a presentation on insider trading at an event hosted by the New York Hedge Fund Round Table at the Penn Club of New York. Since 2009, the government has been cracking down on insider trading in the hedge fund industry...

Google’s own domain was bought from under its nose for $12 in October, and Google just revealed how much money it paid to get it back. After seeing “google...

China seems afraid that George Soros and other speculators are ready to attack the yuan in the same fashion that made the billionaire hedge-fund pioneer world famous in 1992, when he famously “broke the Bank of England” by aggressively shorting the British pound. But while the yuan USDCNY, +0...

FOMC shows more dovishness. As expected, no actions were taken during the FOMC meeting, but the message was clear… The FOMC clearly showed more dovishness seeing the recent developments in the financial markets and the US economy...

Fear that Britain could vote to leave the European Union is hurting the pound. And the pain may just be beginning. A referendum on membership of the EU could be held as early as June, and investors are becoming increasingly concerned about a British exit -- or 'Brexit...

If there is any sign that the Australia economy is in a weird place, it is the reaction to Wednesday’s inflation numbers. The annual inflation rate of 1.7% is well below the Reserve Bank’s target rate of 2% to 3...

Five stockbrokers – including one nicknamed Lord Libor – have been cleared of plotting to fix the banking rate in a bid to make millions of pounds of profit...

A craze for lifelike dolls thought to bring good luck is sweeping Thailand, reflecting widespread anxiety as the economy struggles and political uncertainty persists nearly two years after a coup...

Successful reversal trading is 90% waiting and 10% execution – which is the exact reason why this trading approach is so challenging and typically leads to account blow ups...

The man in charge of safeguarding China's economic statistics is under investigation for potential corruption...

Huang Weimin, the hedge fund manager whose Chinese stock-index futures wagers returned more than 6,200 percent last year, has some advice for investors in 2016: Sell your shares now, before it’s too late...

George Soros may have broken the BOE and may well have been at least partially to blame for the Asian Financial Crisis, but he will not win an FX battle with the PBoC...

A man has been charged with burgling the home of pop star Rita Ora in a $285,000 raid. Charaf Elmoudden is accused of stealing expensive jewelry, iPhones and Apple Mac computers from singer’s home in London last year...