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Gold Standard Review
Written on 30 Jan, 2010 at 15:26 in Commodities | viewed 62 times | 0 Comments
Jan.29.2010 Funny thing is that many gold bugs cling to the belief (any many marketers who should know better validate said belief) that someday we may return to a gold standard, says Jack Crooks from Black Swan Capital. “No gold-digging for me… I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday.” Mae West [...]... (Continue reading)
Stuck in Neutral or Rolling Downhill?
Written on 26 Jan, 2010 at 17:10 in Stock market | viewed 73 times | 0 Comments
Jan.26.2010 The financial media wants to focus on ‘just one thing’, the apocalyptic vote on reconfirmation of the Fed Chair. That’s simply ‘silly season’ stuff amidst debt and deficits, China tightening, European credit markets, and so on. Wall Street has recently chosen to ‘sell the news’ and few believe that job creation will approach [...]... (Continue reading)
QE liquidity 92.5% deployed
Written on 26 Jan, 2010 at 16:53 in Commodities | viewed 91 times | 0 Comments
Jan.26.2010 The Atlanta Fed’s Weekly Highlights points out that only $12.7B of the $175 agency debt and $110B of the agency MBS purchase programs remain to be deployed. With the $300B in Tsy purchases dried up already from last fall, this means 92.5% of QE liquidity has been injected, and less than $125B remain. This [...]... (Continue reading)
Dollar Weakens At Near-Term Support
Written on 19 Oct, 2009 at 11:24 in Forex news | viewed 35 times | 0 Comments
Oct.19.2009 Overall, the dollar index headed lower during the Asian session, but still somehow managed to find a (temporary) bottom during the European trading hours. The only major pair that did not advance against dollar was the pound, which also was the weakest pair over the last few weeks of trading. Ahead, the U.S economic [...]... (Continue reading)
Currency Thoughts and Outlooks
Written on 19 Oct, 2009 at 10:21 in Featured Article | viewed 40 times | 0 Comments
The week ahead offers a large amount of economic detail that will be very important to monitor. The global markets are at a swing point high that either breaks hard topside and continues the bullish theme that has fair value on risk, or reverses hard to support. It seems highly unlikely that a sideways period of trade will easily be able to follow through.... (Continue reading)
U.S. Market Up On Unemployment, Wholesales Data
Written on 9 Oct, 2009 at 1:01 in Stock market | viewed 32 times | 0 Comments
U.S. Market Up On Unemployment, Wholesales Data www.TheLFB-Forex.com The Forex Trader Portal U.S. Trade: The U.S. markets are trading above breakeven, helped by the gains seen in the commodity market and by the better than expected macroeconomic data. The S&P 500 index is currently trading up approximately 0.80%, even though the index advanced more than [...]... (Continue reading)
Global Wrap: Markets Rising After Sales Reports Point Toward Recovery
Written on 16 Sep, 2009 at 11:17 in Commodities | viewed 58 times | 0 Comments
www.TheLFB-Forex.com The Forex Trader Portal Global Wrap: Markets Rising After Sales Reports Point Toward Recovery Current Futures: Dow +90.00, S&P +6.20, NASDAQ +13.00 Shares were rising in the United States after reports state that the economy is pointing towards a recovery. The Dow was set to gain 60.76 points and the S&P 500 rose 3.80 [...]... (Continue reading)
