Recent Commentaries tagged (interest-rates)

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Feb 6 2012

Jim Wyckoff's Morning Blog--Monday

* JIM'S MARKET THOUGHT OF THE DAY * The European Union sovereign debt crisis is back on the front burner to start the new trading week, as many markets, including stock indexes, metals and crude oil are under pressure while the U.S. dollar index rebounds. While the EU debt crisis is in the spotli...


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Feb 3 2012

Federal Reserve Report: No Need for QE3

I keep reading that some people want to have the Federal Reserve begin a new round of quantitative easing...QE3.I see nothing in the financial figures that calls for more quantitative easing. For one, there seems to be no pressure on interest rates. Looking over the last 13-week period the yield...


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Jan 30 2012

Jim Wyckoff's Morning Blog--Monday

* JIM'S MARKET THOUGHT OF THE DAY * The U.S. dollar index is posting a modest rebound to start the trading week. Crude oil is also weaker, which has several other commodity futures markets under pressure Monday. The U.S. dollar bulls need to step up and show good power this week, as this week wil...


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Jan 17 2012

Jim Wyckoff's Morning Blog--Tuesday

* JIM'S MARKET THOUGHT OF THE DAY * Some positive economic news coming out of China and the European Union is boosting commodity markets to start the shorter U.S. trading week Tuesday. The present world economic environment is more bullish for the commodity markets: recent better economic data co...


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