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• German confidence a key matrix amid lowflation threat • US retail demand seen improving • US house prices expected to creep lower An update on sentiment in Europe’s biggest economy will set the tone for trading on Tuesday with the June release of

"Today's SCOTUS decision is encouraging for all who believe in the checks and balances enshrined in our nation's constitution," is Darrell Issa's message following the Supreme Court's unanimous (9-0) decision cutting back the power of the White House

"There's something going on in derivatives land," is the warning from ADM's Andy Ash and as Paul Mylchreest notes the relationship between VIX and SKEW suggests the options market is pricing in the possibility of a major market event. The process

Home prices climbed at a slower-than-expected pace in April, according to latest Case-Shiller report. However, the report continues to show far higher price gains than other reports. Ian Shepherdson at Pantheon Macroeconomics has repeatedly argued

Remember when in January 2014, Q1 GDP was expected to rise 2.6%? Well, here comes the final Q1 GDP revision and it's a doozy: at -2.9%, far below the -1.8% expected and well below the -1.0% second revision, it is an absolute disaster, and is the

Since 2000, investors could have done very well imitating the investment fund GMO. Will the streak continue? Is the stock market really just guesswork, as so many people allege? Can you really not “beat” the indices? Would you really be better off

It's hard to estimate global economic losses to hackers, because many countries don't track cyber-crime and many businesses underreport it. But a new study puts the number at more than $400 billion. Global cyber-crime likely costs nations more than

Given all the recent excitement surrounding the EURUSD, traders have been hyper-focused on trading the day-by-day and hour-by-hour swings. However, when high-impact, unprecedented developments come into play (and I’d definitely consider a major

Norad Admits F-22 Fighter Jets Intercepted 4 Russian Bombers 50 Miles Off California Coast

Some of the biggest investors on Wall Street are losing money with wrong-way bets in markets around the globe, a surprising black eye amid a rise in stock and bond prices. Hedge-fund managers including Paul Tudor Jones, Louis Bacon and Alan Howard

We are currently witnessing the 'Great Transfer' of wealth from the Greatest Generation to the baby boomers, according to Bank of America's Sarbjit Nahal and Beijia Ma. The Greatest Generation refers to the generation in the U.S. that experienced the

It is no secret that as the Fed's centrally-planned New Normal has unfolded, one after another central-planner and virtually all economists, have been caught wrong-footed with their constant predictions of an "imminent" economic surge, any minute

Into the economic news vacuum, summer doldrums, and sports stories, there was finally added some real news – the renewed conflict in Iraq. This had all of the features that make for good financial television and web punditry – action, plenty of

Markets are slipping again. It's nothing too dramatic. US futures are down over 0.15%. Germany is off 0.29%. UK is off small. Markets were saggy all last week, and that's how they're looking now. Of course, there are suddenly a lot of stories in the

Michael Schumacher out of coma and leaves hospital after ski accident - Telegraph

The 10-year Treasury 10_YEAR 0.00% yield fell from over 3% at the start of the year to an 11-month low of 2.44% at the end of the May; it more recently traded at 2.60%. The push lower in yields came even amid signs that the U.S. labor market recovery

USD: FOMC Preview, 3 Potential Changes from the Fed Investors are buying dollars ahead of the Federal Reserve's monetary policy announcement. The central bank is widely expected to reduce asset purchases by another $10 billion, a move that will

From "why did Nixon sever the link between currencies and gold?" to "is war good for the economy?" Mike Maloney's tour de force through 140 years of gold, silver , and monetary farce is indispensable as major parts of the world enter a

The big story this week has been the continued reversals in EUR$ & GBPUSD (Cable), both pairs extending declines after touching multi-year highs in early May. It seems that sentiment now versus that of a month ago has drastically shifted away from