It’s easy to go down the wormhole of complexity when it comes to figuring out why our economy is stagnating for the bottom 80% of households. But it’s actually not that complicated: the primary driver of stagnation, decline of small business
November 19, 2017
This week we’ll begin with our monthly and weekly forecasts of the currency pairs worth watching. The first part of our forecast is based upon our research of the past 16 years of Forex prices, which show that the following methodologies have
In the Currency Strength table, the EUR was the strongest currency while the NZD was the weakest. There were some significant changes last week with the JPY gaining 3 points and the CHF gaining 2 points and the CAD losing 3
Looking at this week’s COT report, extremes include the Swiss franc, crude oil and a new bearish extreme in the Japanese yen. This is shown below: CFTC COT (futures & options combined) – November 14, 2017 Source: CTFC, MarketsNow Notable
Has the fact that the price of a single bitcoin has risen nearly eight-fold so far this year prompted you to turn bearish on the world’s most valuable digital currency? Well, here’s your chance to short it. A Swiss asset-management
‘Stealth’ de-risking of markets has dominated markets for months now in a rotation way. In a sense this has been healthy in holding markets up in this high-level trading range (generally, with Oils and others occasionally poking the indexes to new
The Japanese yen rallied off recent lows amid a risk-off tone that marred global markets at the end of last week. Equities pulled back off recent record levels as traders rotated into under-performing small cap stocks and other safe havens
Given its natural resource-based economy, Canada is a boom and bust kind of place. This year, the country has enjoyed a significant boom. Thanks to a government stimulus program, rising corporate capital expenditures and consumer spending, Canada’s GDP growth has
EM FX ended the week firm, and capped off a good week overall. Best performers last week were ZAR and KRW, while the worst were TRY and IDR. Until we get higher US rates, the dollar may remain under modest
The Australian dollar dips lower amid many economic releases and a “risk-off” atmosphere. The upcoming week features the meeting minutes from the RBA and other releases. Here are the highlights of the week and an updated technical analysis for AUD/USD. The Australian
