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It may be time for Wall Street banks to reconsider their traditional focus in favor of the less-glamorous world of consumer and commercial banking. Several of the major banks reported shrinking profits from their typically strong investment-banking

One of the oldest "rules" on Wall Street is "sell in May and go away." Based on some rough historical observations, someone decided that it might be a great idea to stay out of the stock market between May and sometime in the fall. FBN Securities

QUESTION: Hi Marty I am somewhat concerned about the events unfolding in Nevada, the encroaching tyranny and the future. Sometimes you say that everything will collapse in 2016. Does this mean that the government will collapse and thereby lose their

Eurozone CPI Flash Estimate, which is released at the end of each month, is an inflation index which measures the change in the price of goods and services charged to consumers. A reading which is higher than the market forecast is bullish for the

Three months ago, we discussed the increasingly close eye that regulators were keeping on Deutsche Bank (and in fact many other precious metal fix providers) as manipulation concerns shifted from conspiracy theory to conspiracy fact. At the time

Great news, Q1 was much worse than ourt awesome forecasts expected.. but that was all weather so our forecasts about the future are likely dead correct and that means escape velocity is coming... Stocks are rallying (and gold is fading)... but bonds

US Non-Farm Employment Change measures the change in the number of newly employed people in the US, excluding workers in the farming industry. A reading which is higher than the market forecast is bullish for the dollar. Here are the details and 5

An excellent jobs report from the US sent the dollar higher. But the US dollar managed to maintain its gains for about one hour. While it is hard to find good explanations for this move, we can at least be thankful for a return of action to the

EUR/USD resilience is the name of the game and these last couple of weeks are just a case in a point. ECB speakers tried to talk the singl currency down, EUR/USD inched higher. Very strong US data that bet all of the expectations, EUR/USD still on

The Euro reminds us of the weather in London: One minute you are basking in sparkling sunshine, and the next minute the sky opens in a deluge reminiscent of Noah’s flood. Could it really be that peripheral countries’ interest rates are plunging and

This chart's value is in posing an if-then question: if today's S&P 500 follows these patterns, what will our reaction be? Longtime contributor B.C. recently submitted a chart that combines two interesting market tools: the Coppock Curve and

Another day ending in "y" means another day in which Putin plays the G(roup of most insolvent countries)-7 like a fiddle. The latest: Europe should provide aid to Ukraine to ensure uninterrupted natural-gas deliveries to the region, President

Over the weekend, there has been some consternation over the report that the CEOs of the 6 largest US banks: JPM, BAC, GS, MS, C and WFC, collectively made $96.1 million in 2013, more than $86.3 million the year before and the most since the

While the so-called "experts" were adamant in repeating that one must ignore all Q1 economic data (because of harsh weather you know), one thing the same "experts" pounded the table on was the earnings growth in 2014 which confirmed that the Fed was

For currency traders, talk is cheap, even when the person speaking is the president of the European Central Bank. Mario Draghi’s suggestion this weekend that the ECB may ease policy to address the euro’s advance marked a strengthening of a position

Despite the best efforts of the straight-line panic buying algos on a Tuesday, it seems flashing red headlines of dreadful escalations in Ukraine (more deaths), from Bloomberg: 11 REPORTED DEAD DURING UKRAINIAN OPERATION IN KRAMATORSK: RT UKRAINE

As stocks once again flip-flop from manic depressive to manic impressive; heading into the last few hours of the day, we thought we would simplify the art of trading a little with the following flowchart... And in case you are an algo, here it is

Here’s a guy you want to bet on– Li Ka-Shing. Li is reportedly the richest person in Asia with a net worth well in excess of $30 billion, much of which he made being a shrewd property investor. Li Ka-Shing was investing in mainland China back in the

There was a time not so long ago when the income gap between the rich and the poor was shrinking and many near the bottom of the economic ladder moved into the middle class. Between 1910 and 1950 inequality declined, largely as a result of two World

Yahoo's recently fired chief operating officer, Henrique de Castro, left the Internet company with a severance package of $58 million even though he lasted just 15 months on the job. The disclosure in a regulatory filing may lead to more