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Financial markets across the globe fell sharply on Friday, and Warren Buffett's wallet is taking a hit. The Oracle of Omaha was on pace to lose over $2.3 billion from his top five holdings alone: Wells Fargo, Kraft Heinz, Coca-Cola, IBM and American Express, according to FactSet. U.S...

Feeling miserable these days? You may be able to blame the 1...

A prominent voice in the Bitcoin community has announced that he is abandoning the cryptocurrency that he helped to popularize. Mike Hearn has revealed that deep divisions within the platform's "leadership" and a looming technical apocalypse threatens the system's entire existence...

USD/JPY spent much of this past week rising moderately as global equity markets regained some measure of stability following a highly volatile beginning of the new year...

The recovery of US shares and oil yesterday provided short-lived. Asian shares were dragged lower with the help of Chinese equities. The 3.5% fall in the Shanghai Composite today brings the year-to-date decline to a little more than 18...

In the rise and fall of world powers, the currency market keeps score. A nation’s money gains value when it’s a magnet for global investors; in times of trouble it weakens. The volatility can create havoc...

When it comes to indicators, there are three classes: momentum indicators, trend-following indicators and volatility indicators. Knowing which one belongs to which category, and how to combine them in a meaningful way can help you make much better trading decisions...

An Italian woman who discovered millions of lire in an old chest of drawers has won the right to convert the hoard into euros after a court ruled that a 2011 deadline for exchanging the former currency was unconstitutional...

In a strategy note today, Deutsche Bank advises clients to sell EUR/USD through 2016 arguing that this should be another great year for the greenback which is poised to be a high-yielder by the end of the year...

10%= correction, 20%= bear market. I know these arbitrary numbers sometimes seem silly, but when looking at the data, you have to draw the line somewhere. Get over it, let’s move on. The S&P 500 has been in a drawdown for the last eight months. Stocks are currently 9...

The drumbeat of bearishness is reaching a crescendo. Scary, attention-grabbing headlines have become the norm in a market overwhelmed by fear after U.S. stocks kicked off 2016 with the worst calendar-year beginning ever. And it isn’t as if 2015’s returns were anything to be cheerful about...

So three guys walk into a bar, plunk down $5, and ask the bartender for beer and advice. Nah, that’s so 2015! Here’s a joke for today: Three guys walk into a financial planner’s office, plunk down a $1.5 billion Powerball ticket and ask for advice. What should they do...

For the world's worst-performing economies, no good will come from New Year's resolutions to do better. For many, 2016 will only bring more disappointment, say economists surveyed by Bloomberg. Oil-rich Venezuela will contract by 3...

Yesterday the GBP fell throughout the market and forced the euro bulls to drop to 1.0819. The UK industrial manufacturing index fell to a three year low. Other key currencies followed the pound downwards. After trading closed in Europe, the euro/dollar returned to the LB at 1.0877...