Image source: Pixabay 2023, a year nearly everyone expected a recession, has instead seen impressive economic growth and the markets power to all-time highs. How did this happen?Especially as the Federal Reserve kept interest rates above 5% while conducting Quantitative Tightening?
December 25, 2023
The EUR/USD went into the Christmas weekend near the 1.10140 ratio. The currency pair touched a high on early Friday near the 1.10400 level, which is a value that had last been seen on the 10th of August. The EUR/USD is now within
Infidel introduced me to Annie’s blog and Annie. Angry Bear lacks for a female writer who can discuss the issues from a women’s point of view, economics impacting them, and other needs. Annie provides a different perspective than what I
Gold chart analysisLast week was positive for the gold price by jumping to the $2070 level. We saw a successful bounce above the $2050 previous resistance zone. Now, it is important for us to maintain above it in order to
WTI Crude Oil, like all other assets, will deal with extremely thin holiday trading this week. Speculators who participate in the commodity this week need to understand that the lower than-normal volumes in WTI Crude Oil could generate very quiet
Just in time for Christmas, China expanded its already tight restrictions on export of technology related to refining rare earth minerals. The most recent restrictions involve technology for making rare earth magnets which are used in electric motors and generators. These minerals
The Growth of New Car Prices in the U.S. New car prices have soared in recent years.As a result, those looking for a cheap new car have very few options in today’s market. While average transaction prices for new cars
Image Source: DepositPhotosWhat Are Stock Options?Stock options, commonly referred to as just “options” are financial contracts, bought and sold on stock exchanges around the world. Options trade on something called the derivatives market. It is estimated that the derivatives market has
Each day, I get an array of emails in my In-Box offering up articles, what they think can be interesting reads, or junk. Some are hawking subscriptions too.FreepikI like to subscribe to news letters and magazines. The problem being, I
After weeks of relentlessly rallying, the S&P 500 slipped on a big banana peel yesterday. The average dropped 1.5%, its biggest one-day decline since September, with some experts blaming mechanical trading linked to wildly popular “0DTE” options for the late-day swoon.But equities
