By Commodity Trade Mantra Eurozone Bond buying by ECB will not help solve the problems in Spain or Italy. It may simply delay the big blow by buying some more time & with that in fact, increase the impact later. The...
Read MoreBy EconMatters Crude Oil prices for WTI were just $78 dollars in July, a month later they are $93.40 with supplies well above their five year average range, China decelerating at a rate not seen since the financial crisis, and...
Read MoreBy JW Jones SP 500 may be nearing a cyclical high in the coming two weeks of trade: David Banister- www.markettrendforecast.com THe SP 500 has rallied to a post June 4th high of 1409 this week, about 13 points shy of the Bull...
Read MoreBy Russ Winter The Commercial of Traders (CoT) is suggesting that the markets are far too optimistic about further short end of the curve rate cuts. Indeed given the way grains, oil and gasoline prices have rapidly lit up...
Read MoreBy Matthew Weinschenk of Wall Street Daily We’ve written before that U.S. Treasury bonds simply aren’t safe anymore. Not because the United States will default, but because scared investors have piled into...
Read MoreBy Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti (viaiMFDirect) (Version in Espa?ol) The United States and much of the world economy are still recovering from the devastating global recession that began in 2008. Sometimes crises happen that we...
Read MoreBy Gail Tverberg We live in a finite world. At this point, we seem to be reaching limits in several different areas: Cheap oil. Our economy runs on cheap oil, but there is a limit to the amount of cheap oil that can be pulled...
Read MoreBy Commodity Trade Mantra Standard Chartered Bank is the third British bank to be ensnared in U.S. law-enforcement probes this summer. Barclays Bank agreed to pay $453 million to settle U.S. and UK probes that it rigged a global...
Read MoreBy Shamik Bhose via Commodities Now Gold is nearing a crucial level. On ‘The brink’ is one of those phrases that keeps getting bandied about by all…..I’m never quite sure what it means. Greece is on the...
Read MoreBy Stan Abrams One reads complaints about China trade and the WTO system every day in the U.S. These statements usually concern rule violations by China, limitations of the WTO, and the inability of the U.S. to enforce WTO law....
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