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In the high-speed world of high-frequency trading change comes quick, too, as Wall Street struggles to find seasoned execs to lead the firms’ efforts...

As early as 2009, Reinhart and Rogoff (2009) pointed out that "recessions surrounding financial crises are usually long compared to normal recessions...

The outlook for the dollar in the week ahead is not about economic data or the FOMC and ECB minutes. It is about the stability of the global capital markets. Many are looking for an event or official action that will stop the rout that is of historic proportions to start the year...

A week ago we exposed the real reason for the "crazy volatility" in crude oil markets, and specifically the driver of the immense rally (despite weak data) in crude - a massive liquidation of the triple-inverse ETF DWTI...

During most of the past week, USD/JPY continued its steep plunge as diminished expectations of further interest rate hikes by the US Federal Reserve weighed on the dollar, and turbulent stock markets around the world pushed up the safe haven Japanese yen...

Over the past month the market has put the USD under substantial pressure, and the DXY has fallen almost 4% since the end of January...

Following a consistent stop loss approach is very important because it takes out the emotional and impulsive aspect of taking losses that so many traders struggle with...

Market volatility can be a trader’s best friend or worst enemy, depending on a few key factors. One of those factors is identifying and properly trading obvious technical patterns. GBPAUD is forming such a pattern on both a daily basis as well as an intraday basis...

On 28 January, Carly McWilliams fought in a London employment tribunal against dismissal over investigations into forex trading and benchmarks. After working 14 years on the spot trading desk, McWilliams was suspended while on maternity leave, and later fired for ‘gross misconduct’...

The foreign exchange market's status as the world's largest, built up over decades of rampant globalization, deregulation and growth in financial services, is unlikely to be relinquished any time soon. But the glory days are over...

Fed Chair Janet Yellen returns to Capitol Hill for a second day of testimony Thursday, and the bond market is likely to once more fight her every word. As Yellen testified before the House Financial Services Committee on Wednesday, Treasury yields fell...

It's been an ugly stock market for most investors. But famed inventor and investor Elon Musk is having an exceptionally bad year - not just on one investment - but two. Musk's holdings in solar panel installer SolarCity (SCTY) and electric car maker Tesla (TSLA) are down a staggering $3...

Texan hedge fund manager J. Kyle Bass, the founder of Hayman Capital, has sent his first letter to investors on a global scale in two years. The letter, seen by Business Insider, warns that China has a problem much bigger than the subprime crisis in 2008...

After another soggy Asian session, European markets have begun on a firm note, and US shares are trading broadly higher in Europe as well. Led by the beleaguered financial shares, and healthcare, the Dow Jones Stoxx 600 is up 2...