The interconnectedness of global markets is a boon and a bane to investors. The week began with what was dubbed Black Monday, although this spurious connection to the infamous 1987 Black Monday is anything but accurate. On that day, Wall
August 30, 2015
Market observers continue to give short shrift to the fact that the Federal Reserve is the perpetrator of the “Red Wedding” in the markets. The Federal Reserve doesn’t trust the markets. It thinks it knows better than the markets how
There was a interesting spike in physical gold activity last week on the LBMA. It could be some seasonal phenomenon connected with the end of August and the approach of the prime season for gold. But it also seems consistent with
After all the volatility during the week, Friday’s action was a little reprieve. Markets sit at a point where shorts will fancy their chances, although further upside should not be viewed as surprising given the level of volatility markets experienced
Gold: took back almost all of its previous week losses the past week to close lower on Friday. This development leaves risk lower with more weakness envisaged. However, a recovery in the new week may occur. On the downside, support
While ModernGraham supports the bottom-up approach to investing, many investors do utilize the top-down method, whereby an industry is selected before the company itself. With that in mind, this article will take a brief look at the best companies of the
?Watching the dollar vis-a-vis a basket of currencies has been a pleasure for binary options traders for quite some time. The uncertainty that typically dogs other currencies like the euro, the ruble, the yen and the South African Rand to
Photo Credit: Luz Bratcher Imagine that you are in the position of a high cost crude oil producer that has a lot of debt to service. The price that you can sell your oil for is high enough that you make
In spite of the recent plunge on the Shanghai index, as recently as August 24, CALL options on the index were more expensive than PUT options. This Bloomberg headline “If the Options Market Is Right, China’s Stock Rescue Is Doomed”
Last weekend, we explained why it really all comes down to the death of the petrodollar. China’s transition to a new currency regime was supposed to represent a move towards a greater role for the market in determining the exchange rate for
