Author: Alon Levitan

Jobless claims in the United States dropped by 19k to 366k according to the latest data released by the Labor department. This is the lowest level in three years. Economists expect that U.S. labor market is healing itself as the...

Japan is at the nine month anniversary of the March 11th earthquake that devastated the economy this year. So far the government has allocated $155 billion in funding for the reconstruction efforts. Damaged railways and roads...

With the Euro being pushed down to 11-month lows seen as mounting evidence of investors’ continued lack of confidence in the Eurozone leadership, today’s Italian sovereign debt auction is certain to bring market...

The United States Federal Open Market Committee will announce its interest rate decision around 7:15 pm London time on Tuesday December 13th. While the Fed is expected to hold interest rates below 0.25%, markets are watching for...

As the US trading session is set to open, tension among market participants is heating up ahead of FOMC meeting due at 19:15 GMT. Investors are mostly unanimous with expectations of “no change” to Fed official...

When the ECB announced an interest rate cut, as well as several non-customary measures which are aimed at increasing liquidity for the Eurozone’s banking sector, they fell far short of what the markets had really wanted,...

For the better part of the last year, and certainly in more recent months, it’s clear that this eToro top trader, santoshtiwari, has tried to avoid the swings of the highly volatile Euro-Dollar in favor of the more...

This week we are reviewing trader: MPL1983 who is relatively new to OpenBook. The trader has been trading for a month but the trader has managed to attract over 100 copiers and over 300 followers in a relatively short amount of...

The U.S. trade deficit fell 1.6% in October to $43.5 billion. This was the lowest level so far this year and the fourth straight month that the trade deficit has narrowed. Exports and Imports declined in October. Imports...

China’s National Bureau of Statistics reported earlier today that inflation has declined further still, with consumer inflation dropping in November to 4.2% on an annualized basis, well off the previous 5.5% rate and below...