By Nisha Sharma (Guest Post) The rising cost of car insurance in the UK has now attracted the full attention of the House of Commons Transport Committee who has extended their investigation of the claims of escalating costs and...
Read MoreBy Chris Vermeulen (Guest Post) How to trade oil is not an easy thing to do in today’s headline driven market. Even the best oil analysis which may have been correct will still be wrong at times. This is due to the fact...
Read MoreBy Frank Holmes (Guest Post) Strength Copper prices continued to rally this week, gaining 4 percent to nearly $3.40 per pound, as sentiment towards commodities improved and the potential of mine worker strikes threatens supply....
Read MoreBy Stan Abrams From NYT (Guest Post) “China’s economy pulled back a bit from its pell-mell pace in the third quarter, the government said Tuesday, as measures to rein in inflation and head off speculation put a brake...
Read MoreBy Prieur du Plessis at Investment Postcards (Guest Post) The Chinese stock market has taken a real hammering since its peak in mid-2009. The chronic underperformance of the Shanghai Composite Index is clearly illustrated by its...
Read MoreBy Anoop Singh (via iMFdirect) (Guest Post) For the past two or three decades, rising inequality–inequality of incomes, of economic outcomes and of economic opportunities–has taken a back seat to the goal of boosting...
Read MoreBy Mike “Mish” Shedlock (Guest Post) The spread between German and French government bonds keeps rising. It is now at a record 95 basis points and counting (a bit higher than the article below suggests). Look for the...
Read MoreBy JW Jones (via Chris Vermeulen) (Guest Post) The last hour of trading was intense on Tuesday and then all eyes were focused on Apple’s earnings which were released around 4:30 ET. The initial reaction to the earnings...
Read MoreBy Bruce Krasting (Guest Post) Bernanke has said dozens of times that he wants to boost inflation in his effort to lift stocks. He’s succeeded in pushing up the cost of things over the past year. Everyone is paying a...
Read MoreBy Roberto De Primis (Guest Post) Before 1995, Ireland’s unemployment rate was similar to the current rate. Huge outflows of Irish left the country towards United States, Canada, Australia and other countries of the...
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