By Anthony Harrington via QFinance The Summit of European leaders on Thursday and Friday 28th and 29th of June takes place against a backdrop of German intransigence to the one idea that France, Italy and Spain, and probably...
Read MoreBy Frank Holmes A few months ago, we created two visuals we felt captured the emotions of how people respond to gasoline prices around the U.S. With an increased dependency on our cars these days to get to work, school and...
Read MoreBy Jason Simpkins of Wall Street Daily OPEC has been a major force in the oil market since the 1960s, constantly sparring with demand to maintain favorable prices. However, the alliance has always been an uneasy one. In the...
Read MoreCriminal networks in Nigeria have been siphoning nearly 150,000 barrels of oil per day (bpd) from state and oil companies, said the Managing Director of Shell Petroleum Development Company Nigeria on Tuesday, as the government...
Read MoreBy JW Jones I recently discussed the ability to use implied volatility to calculate the probability of a successful outcome for any given option trade. To review briefly, the essential concepts a trader must understand in order...
Read MoreBy Louis Basenese of Wall Street Daily In this post, I’m dishing on patriotism, the world’s least favorite investments, the future of retailing and, of course, that darn real estate recovery many readers simply...
Read MoreBy All About Alpha via QFinance Whether the growth of the credit derivatives market caused or contributed to the U.S. centered financial crisis of 2007-08 is an issue that is already passing into the domains of academic...
Read MoreBy Tyler Durden of ZeroHedge In a no-holds-barred interview (see below) with Bloomberg TV’s Francine Lacqua, the increasingly droopy-faced George Soros remains as sprite-minded as ever in his clarifying thoughts on Europe....
Read MoreBy Kurt Cobb This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. –T.S. Eliot, “The Hollow Men” The modern end-of-the-world imagination...
Read MoreBy EconMatters Citing “Central banks are being cornered into prolonging monetary stimulus as governments drag their feet and adjustment is delayed”, the BIS (Bank for International Settlements) on Sunday, June 24...
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